Can't launch game after the November 9, 2021 update

[Wyrd.9612]

Once again, I've lost the ability to have the game up at all, past the launcher, with the daily reset. This is despite having tried every solution I've seen suggested, including running as administrator while game mode is turned off and more. I don't know what they broke, but they broke it good and hard =/

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Dev response: 

 

[Harak.8397]

Interesting. I had this bug creep up once in a while before ( I want to say since last summer there about ) and it started happening repeatedly this week. ( same as OP ).... and then it stopped when I tried launching the game with a browser window opened ? 

It's just magic to me at this point so I'm glad they have a fix in the works.😄

[mythical.6315]

I've had the same issue and have a workaround that's been 100% successful for me.

All that I do is start the game in windowed mode (not windowed full screen) until the character screen loads completely.  I then maximize the game window and play as normal.

Edited November 12, 2021 by mythical.6315

[Blude.6812]

4 hours ago, mythical.6315 said:

Check Twitter.

They've also posted twice in this thread. 

True, but posts saying we are aware and fixing well after the problems was being reported seems like an after thought on their part. Not posting on ALL platforms they interact with is inexcusable. Not posting an important message to not waste time with drivers, verifying, reinstalling and all the other so called work arounds, likewise. They could have a locked post about the windowed option as well as their working on post much earlier than they did, and on and on. They to need respect their customers.

 

Edited November 12, 2021 by Blude.6812

[ShionKreth.1542]

11 minutes ago, Blude.6812 said:

True, but posts saying we are aware and fixing well after the problems was being reported seems like an after thought on their part. Not posting on ALL platforms they interact with is inexcusable. Not posting an important message to not waste time with drivers, verifying, reinstalling and all the other so called work arounds, likewise. They could have a locked post about the windowed option as well as their working on post much earlier than they did, and on and on. They to need respect their customers.

 

I can assure you... people who WANT to take offense, will still take offense, no matter what they do. 

[mythical.6315]

1 hour ago, Blude.6812 said:

True, but posts saying we are aware and fixing well after the problems was being reported seems like an after thought on their part.

It’s been two days…

Actually I just checked and they responded Tuesday morning to the issue literally a few hours after the patch. So you’re making accusations without having all of the facts. 
 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2021 by mythical.6315

[SkyraTempest.4538]

Ever since the new update, I haven't been able to get past the log in screen. Yesterday, I tried 5 separate times to get in. All I got was a shrunken mouse icon and the inability to select anything which resulted in having to do a hard shutdown on my computer (mashing the power button until it shut off). Today, I managed to get in and create a new character. Logged off, came back an hour later and it's doing the same thing. Three times I had to repeat what I did before. Please tell me this is getting fixed soon!

[tonny.7580]

well i just got today 2 didnt have proplem yesday but today just got it

[Skull.8253]

18 hours ago, Skull.8253 said:

This worked for me. Thank you, fazo.

As of today, this no longer works. I haven't changed any settings. 

[The Jade Grue.3547]

I had this same problem until I forced it to use direct x 11. Just use the same steps to force it to start in windowed mode but instead of -windowed use -dx11. Some people it works for some it doesn't. 

[Sarpan.9074]

6 hours ago, staringcenter.5013 said:

Here is the link for the update on the issue for those who are interested in reading the statement.

 

 

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Rei Hino.5961]

My g/f just got this as well have to keep closing..opening..closing opening have to alt ctrl delete to get task manager. To all having this issue when at the task manager you can't click on it hit tab button with it selected you'll notice the item selected moves. Move it till "Name" above the process list is highlighted then arrow button down till guild wars 2 is selected and then hit alt + e..but it eventually starts.

Edited November 12, 2021 by Rei Hino.5961

[SovietSquid.3478]

On 11/9/2021 at 1:21 PM, Brasetvik.1609 said:

I might have a fix, in windows 10 turn off "windows 10 game mode"

You can search for: Game mode
and should find it.

Still Anet should really fix this so we can run the game with Game Mode ON. ✌️

Yeah so I had the same issue as the above poster, but this post I quoted worked for me. GW2 would steal screen focus but I couldn't see anything, don't know if there was sound because my in game levels are turned down quite a bit. had to force quit using task manager. Tried disabling "game mode" and the game was able to launch successfully. Re-enabled game mode and the game launched properly yet again. Maybe give that a try, since it's easy to do and doesn't require any installations or file directory changes, etc.

[kaephantom.3895]

29 minutes ago, SovietSquid.3478 said:

Yeah so I had the same issue as the above poster, but this post I quoted worked for me. GW2 would steal screen focus but I couldn't see anything, don't know if there was sound because my in game levels are turned down quite a bit. had to force quit using task manager. Tried disabling "game mode" and the game was able to launch successfully. Re-enabled game mode and the game launched properly yet again. Maybe give that a try, since it's easy to do and doesn't require any installations or file directory changes, etc.

Also worked for me. Exactly same stuff. Now the game is working again.
The mouse issue (not clicking anything after logging in even after ctlr+alt+del) was also happening here.

[dceptaconroy.7928]

Yeah, feel free to let the fix - (patch) rip  Anet. We're all missing out on dailies, and for OCD'ers this can't go on! :>

[HatamichiSatoshi.1679]

Hi peeps,

 

Been having the same issue as of late.

So far I've done quite a few things that don't work but finally stumbled on a temporary fix. 

By changing my screen resolution I finally got my game to launch but with black screen still on it. For some that might work.

For me what really worked was changing my monitor refresh rate/or coincidence .. 

Updated video drivers, turned off third party software such as MSI, restarted PC. Tried creating a repair launcher but that didn't work. 

Soon a hot fix will be made by ArenaNet, so far I hope changing your resolution or refresh rate helps. 

Stay strong brothers.

[Tramp.7385]

Hi all,

 

I had the same issue and nothing worked for me. but i was finally able to run game after those changes :

1. turn Game mode off 
2. Run game as Administrator

When I tried after that to turn game mode on or did not run as Admin, game started, but not showed, only sound on background and screen frozen ... I was able to run command line (<Windows key> cmd -> click Run as Administrator) an then alt-tab to this console and write :

tasklist, search for row with Gw2-64.exe <number> and then write taskkill /F /PID <number> and it kills game.

 

i hope, that patch will be here soon ...

[Molesworth.1684]

They're certainly taking their time.  I suppose because only some of the player base are affected.  Grumpy.  Not buying any gems for a while.

 

[OMA Thava.1379]

I just bought the EOD expansion and get this problem. Real nice.

[fairoak.4637]

On 8/27/2018 at 1:57 PM, aandiarie.7195 said:

I don't know much about computer stuff, but my old computer used to not like gw2. How old is your computer and what are the specs on it? Are you using the 64 or 32 bit client thing? You can also try to repair the client. Google repair client gw2. https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201863008-Repairing-the-Game-Client

Repairing game client worked for me.  Thanks for reposting the steps

[Takarashun.4368]

• Issues and Mistakes tend to happen, for me it works fine, forcing the window mode. Make a Shortcut of your GW2.exe and right-click and go into properties. After that just add -windowed to Target. Looks something like this "E:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe" -windowed.  You can maximize in game again. Hope that works for you for now. 

[yoni.7015]

It is really disappointing that they are not fixing it and their communication sucks 

[Sinmir.6504]

16 minutes ago, yoni.7015 said:

It is really disappointing that they are not fixing it and their communication sucks 

There have been replies and an update thread about it.  They have a team working on it. TBH until they are 100% sure when it will be fixed that's all they really can say.

 

It didn't work at all for me just after the update, the next day it opened in a window. I'm looking forward to getting back to full screen but for now I'm happy knowing there's a team working on it. if somebody said, "It should all be fixed within the hour." We'd be disappointed if it wasn't.

[UO Ducks.5614]

Tried the -repair addition to the exe file and it still doesn't work for me. The second I hit Play it crashes my computer and has to be hard powered off to recover.