GameDevBrian.7384 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 Hello, So I played a little bit this morning with no issues. I come back to play some more after eating breakfast to a big white screen that pops up over the game talking about being blocked from logging into discord.com. I have done nothing and changed nothing except for downloading some small patch when I returned to play. I'm not sure what was implemented in this small patch, but it was the only change between the 2 play sessions. I currently can't play because I can't get rid of this screen. I took a screenshot of the problem, but then realized I can't send it as an in game bug report because of the white screen blocking out everything but the bottom skill bar. So here is a Link to the screenshot 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zohane.7208 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 16 minutes ago, GameDevBrian.7384 said: Hello, So I played a little bit this morning with no issues. I come back to play some more after eating breakfast to a big white screen that pops up over the game talking about being blocked from logging into discord.com. I have done nothing and changed nothing except for downloading some small patch when I returned to play. I'm not sure what was implemented in this small patch, but it was the only change between the 2 play sessions. I currently can't play because I can't get rid of this screen. I took a screenshot of the problem, but then realized I can't send it as an in game bug report because of the white screen blocking out everything but the bottom skill bar. So here is a Link to the screenshot You should probably discuss this with the people at Discord rather than at Arenanet? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDevBrian.7384 Posted September 29, 2023 Author Share Posted September 29, 2023 This wasn't a discord issue. I didn't even have discord running at the time of the screenshot. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luthan.5236 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) And I thought it was only me - regarding Discord. I had crashes (of the whole computer, freeze) sometimes - where I needed to delete the discord-Folder in the AppData/Roaming location on the computer. Cause it gave blank screen. (While crashing it must have messed up some of the data.) Seems like this now was an issue with Discord. That page usually appears on normal websites when checking for possible DDOS or something like that - I think. Mainly automatically progressing further ... or letting you do some captcha. Here for me deleting the discord folder in AppData/Roaming still worked for me. (Does not reset too much of the settings since most is stored account-wide and accessed when logging in I think. I had to disable autostart for Discord and the minimize to tray which I set to disabled which was reset to the defaults - enabled.) Maybe this could work for you. Or closing discord. (My guess is the bug is with the overlay from discord - not juts showing the overlay but that whole page covering the whole screen ... if Discord occurs this bug.) Edit: Odd that it happens with discord not running? Maybe some process stuck? (Check task manager processes.) Edited September 29, 2023 by Luthan.5236 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 this issue has nothing to do with Guild wars 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Salazar.5430 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 try use ccleaner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDevBrian.7384 Posted September 29, 2023 Author Share Posted September 29, 2023 So I waited a while and another small patch came through for GW2 and low and behold no issues. Odd how everyone assumed it was something to do with discord on my end. If it was my end, it coincidentally fixed itself at the same time that the small GW2 patch went through. I didn't change anything yet again on my end other then a patch to GW2. 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Falcon.5496 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 If you check Discord's Twitter posts you'll see that Discord, NOT ARENA NET, was having a problem with Cloudflare blocking users. Arena Net literally had nothing to do with this. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDevBrian.7384 Posted September 29, 2023 Author Share Posted September 29, 2023 I just don't understand why it was popping up over GW2 while I didn't have discord running on my machine. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heibi.4251 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) Restarting my router fixed the issue. This isn't ANET's problem. Edited September 29, 2023 by Heibi.4251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 14 minutes ago, GameDevBrian.7384 said: So I waited a while and another small patch came through for GW2 and low and behold no issues. Odd how everyone assumed it was something to do with discord on my end. If it was my end, it coincidentally fixed itself at the same time that the small GW2 patch went through. I didn't change anything yet again on my end other then a patch to GW2. correlation is not causation 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaba.5410 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 14 minutes ago, GameDevBrian.7384 said: I just don't understand why it was popping up over GW2 while I didn't have discord running on my machine. Are you sure about that? Doesn't discord have an updater that can run in the background? Doesn't it stay running in the system tray even if you "close" it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yun.8356 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 Could the problem been identifying by actually reading the pop up? Yes Would it be easier to blame Anet when the pop up clearly identifies itself as discord.com? Also yes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raseus.2543 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 Guild Wars 2 has no connection to discord, none. No API, no integration. Its most likely the discord overlay bugging out due to their cloudflare issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Moderator.3419 Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 Hi everyone, As Peregrine Falcon helpfully pointed out, this is an external issue which is unrelated to Guild Wars 2. With that being the case, I'm locking this thread to avoid confusion. Regards. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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