Gw.exe

Ive been playing GW for 43months now and just 15minutes ago when I logged in to guildwars It immediatley closes and said "A serious Error has occured "not Allowing guild wars to continue on or something like that. It also said I should send an email to ArenaNet What should I do to fix this problem Im reinstalling guild wars right now I hope it works. Please HELP ME!!Nope Reinstalling it doesnt work just got the message 2 minutes after I reinstalled it

Sounds like a corrupted .dat imo o.o.
Re-installing should fix it iirc.

Umm where is the .dat imo?

LOL he said .dat imo LOL LOL LOL

But yeah reinstall completely. like add or remove programs then delete the gw folder then reinstall the whole thing.

Yeah I did reinstall it, But I didnt delete a gw folder?

try going to start -> run and type cmd.exe

in the window that pops up type cd c:\program files\guildwars (might be a space between guild and wars) then type

gw.exe -repair


If that doesn't work:

go to start -> control panel -> add/remove programs and uninstall guildwars

then

go to my computer -> c: -> program files and delete the guild wars folder.

then get out your shiny cds or download the client from guildwars.com and reinstall from scratch.

Ok im trying the second one right now if that doesnt work ill do the first thx Ill post again if i need any more help

Nope 2nd method didnt work

could be a hardware problem.... any changes to your computer of late? Any problems while playing other games or programs?

Well I think I may have a few viruses but ive had them for awhile now. Things seem to crash often now

Well nothing has worked..Need help check my topic above this one

FYI, I had this same problem beginning this morning. I had logged in and play for about 1-1/2 hrs and then logged off. I went to eat breakfast and when I came back my pc was restarting due to an auto Windows update.

When it was finished rebooting, I tried to restart GW and kept getting the same message as the OP. Tried reinstalling gw.exe and it worked at first - let me log on and play. But when I logged off again, I couldn't restart it for hours. I kept reinstalling the exe file and updated drivers and finally it let me back into the game.

I checked the forum and saw the above suggestion about reinstalling the dat file and decided to do that. It didn't help.

I finally uninstalled the Windows update and, as of right now, I have no further problems.

Moral of the story: It's your OS, not Guild Wars.

i bought the game two days ago i ran the game it loaded up created my account and the the "Gw.exe a serious error.." well yeah most people have heard that before i have tryed some techniques but nothing seems to work and what is your "OS"? please help havent even played the game once(guild wars campaign one)

OS=Operating System

This is usually Windows XP or Vista. I happen to have Windows Vista.