Afrer latest update - unable to verify the Guild wars 2 executable.Please try again.

Tristania.9801

Hello to everybody.I can't play the game since yesterday.
I have this permament error " unable to verify the Guild wars 2 executable.Please try again.if the problem persists,uninstall and reinstall the application,or contact customer support.
Any Help please?

Astyrah.4015

something has either corrupted gw2-64.exe or your gw2.dat (or both) -- most likely due to bad internet corrupting your patch update

try completely removing then re-installing the whole game or if you made a copy/backup try restoring from that.

Tristania.9801

thank you.i have tried that already.it doesnt help.there is a problem in the gw2 folder that i need to do and i dont remember it.It has happened again in the past and i dont remember what was the proposed solution that i was given back then.

Astyrah.4015

@Tristania.9801 said:
there is a problem in the gw2 folder

which is why a full re-install would usually work by clearing the whole directory and installing fresh files over it. if your install got corrupted due to a bad system environment or bad internet, then obviously there's a chance it will happen again

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if reinstalling is a no-go for you (either because it will take too long/slow internet or for any other reason) then try to see if there are any .tmp files for gw2-64.exe or gw2.dat and restore from those. wouldn't be a guaranteed thing but it's a shot at getting a non-corrupted game file.

Tristania.9801

The only files that exist in the folder Guild wars 2 (which is windows xp 32 bit) are the following and also to mention that this issue has happened in 3 computers on the same time after yesterdays update.
gw2.dat = 51526004 Kb
gw2.exe
gw2.tmp =26.636 Kb
gw.tmp =0 Kb
crash.dmp = 437.kb
gw.loginclient.dll
bin folder.
The same applies exactly in all 3 computers.
All of them have the same problem after the update

Healix.5819

When patching, GW2 can fail to overwrite its own executable, resulting in Gw2.exe being renamed to Gw2.tmp (or Gw2.###). Attempting to start it after that patch will fail, since Gw2.exe is now invalid.

Delete Gw2.exe and rename Gw2.tmp to Gw2.exe.

Alternatively, download Gw2Setup.exe and rename it to Gw2.exe.

Tristania.9801

Fantastic solution! thank you Healix 5819!