Xierg.7426 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Title really says it all. The game simple doesn't work for any of us, it not only doesn't launch, it completely breaks our PCs so a hard restart will work. Hopefully this is fixed asap and a statement made because we likely won't be back and I'm sure this will cost the game players. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheljq.9765 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Me and my friend same issue tonight. It was fine yesterday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taralyn.6859 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 It has been like this since the patch yesterday. Works sometimes for me and not others. Currently I cannot get in. It is very annoying though and I feel your pain. I also have to restart my pc each time I try because it locks everything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blude.6812 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Anet messed up yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Here's the statement: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GODh.3892 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Yeah, the patch from last tuesday is causing a lot of problems (it's probbaly related with running the game in full screen mode or not). We are still waiting for patch that fixes the issue 😥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatolian Turk.4057 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 same here, its from Tuesday's patch. Hope quick-fix patch will come soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathRogue.5492 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Well then I Will await for further updates. and hopefully I can get in tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faetos.2035 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 the only way I was able to get it to work was to force -windowed when running the exe. It's on a laptop, so it's pretty lame to run a windowed screen on an already tiny screen. Probably just come back in Dec. Nothing to play for anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endilbiach.4132 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Xierg.7426 said: Title really says it all. The game simple doesn't work for any of us, it not only doesn't launch, it completely breaks our PCs so a hard restart will work. Hopefully this is fixed asap and a statement made because we likely won't be back and I'm sure this will cost the game players. MAN you picked a bad day. It was a small patch, and something got borked bad, I think they found the problem and are working on implementing a fix though, never seen a problem this bad take this long so it's gotta be something weird. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xierg.7426 Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 Yeah just bad timing. Lots of people are looking for a new MMO after New World's pretty catastrophic fail (mass duping/exploiting that has effectively ruined the game). We'll just wait for a fix, most of us can't decide which class to play anyway lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guybrush.4762 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 (edited) Hi, the good news is there is simple temporary fix. It has already been shared on the forum but it is worth repeating as it is now buried beneath a wall of text: -Open your Guild wars 2 install directory. -Create a shortcut to your Guild Wars 2 client (the executable you need to target is "Gw2-64.exe"), name this shortcut "Gw2-64_windowed.exe" to avoid confusion. -Right click on the new shortcut and select "Properties" (it may have a different name in different language) -In the text area labelled as "Target", that's the first text area, add " -windowed" at the end (note the space at the beginning!) ; it should read something like that: "C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -windowed -Apply the change and double click on the shortcut to launch the client. The shortcut we have created force the game to launch in windowed mode (launching the game fullscreen is what is provoking the bug). Your game should launch now but it is in a small window and we don't want that. We are going to swap to the much better Fullscreen windowed mode: -In the top left corner of the character selection screen, click the gear icon. -A menu appear, click option and go to the graphic option (that is the double triangular icon that look like a Vista icon) -In the Resolution option, that is the first option, Choose Fullscreen Windowed instead of Windowed. For future launches you can use your regular executable, you don't need to keep the shortcut we have created. Also, note that other methods to force the Windowed mode as been reported to be working. Edited November 11, 2021 by Guybrush.4762 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khayoss.7621 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Guybrush.4762 said: Hi, the good news is there is simple temporary fix. It has already been shared on the forum but it is worth repeating as it is now buried beneath a wall of text: -Open your Guild wars 2 install directory. -Create a shortcut to your Guild Wars 2 client (the executable you need to target is "Gw2-64.exe"), name this shortcut "Gw2-64_windowed.exe" to avoid confusion. -Right click on the new shortcut and select "Properties" (it may have a different name in different language) -In the text area labelled as "Target", that's the first text area, add " -windowed" at the end (note the space at the beginning!) ; it should read something like that: "C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -windowed -Apply the change and double click on the shortcut to launch the client. The shortcut we have created force the game to launch in windowed mode (launching the game fullscreen is what is provoking the bug). Your game should launch now but it is in a small window and we don't want that. We are going to swap to the much better Fullscreen windowed mode: -In the top left corner of the character selection screen, click the gear icon. -A menu appear, click option and go to the graphic option (that is the double triangular icon that look like a Vista icon) -In the Resolution option, that is the first option, Choose Fullscreen Windowed instead of Windowed. For future launches you can use your regular executable, you don't need to keep the shortcut we have created. Also, note that other methods to force the Windowed mode as been reported to be working. I forgot to add in my post that I tried this as well. Didn't work for me. Hope it works for others though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarian.9867 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Guybrush.4762 said: Hi, the good news is there is simple temporary fix. It has already been shared on the forum but it is worth repeating as it is now buried beneath a wall of text: -Open your Guild wars 2 install directory. -Create a shortcut to your Guild Wars 2 client (the executable you need to target is "Gw2-64.exe"), name this shortcut "Gw2-64_windowed.exe" to avoid confusion. -Right click on the new shortcut and select "Properties" (it may have a different name in different language) -In the text area labelled as "Target", that's the first text area, add " -windowed" at the end (note the space at the beginning!) ; it should read something like that: "C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -windowed -Apply the change and double click on the shortcut to launch the client. The shortcut we have created force the game to launch in windowed mode (launching the game fullscreen is what is provoking the bug). Your game should launch now but it is in a small window and we don't want that. We are going to swap to the much better Fullscreen windowed mode: -In the top left corner of the character selection screen, click the gear icon. -A menu appear, click option and go to the graphic option (that is the double triangular icon that look like a Vista icon) -In the Resolution option, that is the first option, Choose Fullscreen Windowed instead of Windowed. For future launches you can use your regular executable, you don't need to keep the shortcut we have created. Also, note that other methods to force the Windowed mode as been reported to be working. Worked for me. Many thanks! Too bad Arenanet has joined the club of game companies who lately managed to mess up simple patches. Bioware did the same with the infamous FUBARpatch in SWTOR a few months ago. Some people had to entirely reinstall that game to fix it. Hopefully Anet does better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Time.7054 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 (edited) That procedue is far too complicated for a Mac user like I am, who was already forced to install Windows on a external drive in order to continue playing GW2, and knows very little about it (but thanks for the effort anyway). I hope this mess will turn back soon into a regular login procedure. NEWS: I logged in by chance a couple of times, now I am logged in. What if I switch to windowed mode before quit? Would this work for next login attempt? Edited November 12, 2021 by Justin Time.7054 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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