Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Not sure if this belongs here or in 'Bugs', but my launcher no longer saves my Account Name nor password. At first it saved the password, but not the Account Name; now it blanks out both fields. Made sure 'My Account' was working; restarted computer...not sure what else to try. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 (edited) Run Gw2-64.exe without using a shortcut, enter your email/password and choose to remember them, then login. Once logged in, don't click play - exit the launcher. Note that if the launcher/game crashes, your login won't save. If it's still not saving, delete %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Local.dat, which is where your login is stored, then try again. If you're using mods, remove them (delete any DLLs in the GW2 folder and the entire bin64 folder for simplicity). That said, the patch seems to have introduced a lot of bugs into the launcher (excessive loading, invisible launcher, CoherentUI crashing, rendering glitches, -autologin failing), though I'm not personally having a problem with remembering the login. Edited July 20, 2022 by Healix.5819 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metavox.1094 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Yeah, I've been having really spotty reliability with autologin since this last patch as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 (edited) On 7/19/2022 at 6:41 PM, Healix.5819 said: Run Gw2-64.exe without using a shortcut, enter your email/password and choose to remember them, then login. Once logged in, don't click play - exit the launcher. Note that if the launcher/game crashes, your login won't save. If it's still not saving, delete %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Local.dat, which is where your login is stored, then try again. If you're using mods, remove them (delete any DLLs in the GW2 folder and the entire bin64 folder for simplicity). That said, the patch seems to have introduced a lot of bugs into the launcher (excessive loading, invisible launcher, CoherentUI crashing, rendering glitches, -autologin failing), though I'm not personally having a problem with remembering the login. I'm not sure what you mean by 'run GW2 without a shortcut'. Don't use any mods; only use -mapLoadinfo. Edit: I thought maybe you meant run GW2 from inside the folder, so tried that. Account Name and password were there. Then tried it from the shortcut? on the desktop, still worked. So maybe, 🤞, it is working now. Thanks, Healix, you (d a...no idea why those two letters together are filtered) best! Edited August 8, 2022 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake.5140 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 This only happened to me right after the update but they started being saved again after the first login 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GODh.3892 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 5 hours ago, Drake.5140 said: This only happened to me right after the update but they started being saved again after the first login Same for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 (edited) Whelp, it's back again. Starting from inside the folder has no effect, so that wasn't the 'fix'. I see there's been some kind of update; not sure if that had any effect on the issue. I tried to delete the local.dat file, but I can't find it; it's not in Documents (Guild Wars 2 file) nor in appdata/roaming. There's a file in appdata/roaming, that is called 'Local', but it can't be deleted and when you click on it, it brings up some Photo-shop type application. 🤷♂️ Edited July 20, 2022 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 Another thing, somewhat related, that has been happening recently (a few days/weeks) is that trying to log into 'My Account' will often redirect to the forum with this message: Sorry, there is a problem Something went wrong. Please try again. Error code: 2S119/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shena Fu.5792 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 it's happening intermittently since the patch few days ago. furthermore, launcher often asks for passcode in an email. which never happened before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said: I tried to delete the local.dat file, but I can't find it; it's not in Documents (Guild Wars 2 file) nor in appdata/roaming. There should be a Guild Wars 2 folder under roaming; Local.dat is in there. You can open it by pressing WindowsKey+R or by entering it into the address bar of any folder: %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Been to that file, no Local.dat. Just 'Photo Director 8'. Ok, this time it let me delete it (Photo Director 8). But no fix, unfortunately. Sometimes it works, and more often, it does not. Hope the Devs fix it soon. Edited July 21, 2022 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 If you can get it to save again, try exclusively launching with -shareArchive to put Local.dat in read-only mode. This should either prevent it from resetting or confirm it's a problem with loading the remembered login. Note you'll need to remove the option to patch or change any of the "local" settings (login, sound and some graphics). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 Well, if I fix the 'My Account' login to work, it will remember my password, but not my Account Name...if that tells you anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cscorps of oz.8526 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 I'm having the same problem. Email and password are only automatically saved about 50% of the time. Sometimes only the email is saved. This has only occurred since the last update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 (edited) Lately, if anything is saved, it is just the password; never the Account Name. I don't know what was in the original patch, but sooo many things are really wonky now. Edited July 22, 2022 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig.3802 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Yeah. I'm having the same problem. Started during the week. Sometimes it saves. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it saves the password only and other times it saves the email only. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GODh.3892 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 (edited) I had this problem once after tuesday's patch, but in the last 8 hours i had it a few times and it's very annoying. The problem seems to have a relation with local.dat. I am "lucky" enough to have multiple accounts and i use batch files to switch between accounts (all it does is to make sure the correct local.dat is in my gw2 folder). When this problem occurs, i have to close game, re-run the last-used batch file, start game again and the problem is solved (till now). All i have done is copying the required local.dat to my gw2 folder again, while the game is not running. And that fixes the problem... but not the cause of it (probably something goes wrong when gw2 tries to read local.dat). Edited July 23, 2022 by GODh.3892 typos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zok.4956 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 On 7/20/2022 at 1:52 AM, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said: Not sure if this belongs here or in 'Bugs', but my launcher no longer saves my Account Name nor password. At first it saved the password, but not the Account Name; now it blanks out both fields It happens to me sometimes, too, that both fields are empty when I start the client. I then just close the client without input and start it again. And then it ususally has my saved account name and password again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Zok.4956 said: It happens to me sometimes, too, that both fields are empty when I start the client. I then just close the client without input and start it again. And then it ususally has my saved account name and password again. Sadly, that doesn't work for me. Though, often once a day, the Account Name and password will be saved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witch of Steam.5138 Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 This has been an issue since the re-release of the " Scarlet's Playhouse " Episode ( July 2022 ) Despite having " remember me " clicked under the Email I'm having to routinely Re-enter my email and password. It's not Too much of a hassle as I remember those readily, But it's still an inconvenience and a rather obnoxious one at that. No rush in looking for a solution /gen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troy.3257 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Yeah since last patch mine is not being saved or password. It happens randomly though. That last patch has been a buggy mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyx.1906 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 This is happening to me 80% of the time; both name and password are lost. Name isn't a problem, but I have an appropriately complex password and now I have to have it saved in a handy fashion for cut and paste, which totally defeats the purpose of a good password. This needs to be fixed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, Pyx.1906 said: This is happening to me 80% of the time; both name and password are lost. Name isn't a problem, but I have an appropriately complex password and now I have to have it saved in a handy fashion for cut and paste, which totally defeats the purpose of a good password. This needs to be fixed. Are you sure the password isn't saved? When my launcher fails to save the Account Name, and I supply it, the 6 asterisks show up (often) in the password field (which is everyone's hidden password). You might just try it next time. Good luck. Edited July 30, 2022 by Inculpatus cedo.9234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windyweather.1238 Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 That's twice now. The launcher is forgetting my email / password when the checks are there. Not in a row. works most of the time, but failed again this morning after working yesterday and for a few days since it failed last. BUG! Annoying Bug. This has worked correctly for over a decade and now it's broken. Whazup? ;( 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windyweather.1238 Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Sorry, but I'm not ever gonna sign up for 2 Factor, so if this "Forgetting" is yet another annoyance to incent me to sign up for 2 Factor, sorry. Not going to happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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