WTF is this supposed to mean?

Wargod The Great

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Why do we lag [DLup]

Mo/

Im not a tech dude but wtf does it mean when you turn on guild wars it says another copy of guildwars is running etc. when its not.. uhh HELP?

Wargod The Great

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Why do we lag [DLup]

Mo/

it wont start up wtf i checked everywhere and there is not another copy of guild wars runing anywhere WTF IS GOING ON?

EiS

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Save The Dragons

R/Mo

Have you tried pushing Ctrl-Alt-Delete togher then under the processes see if GW is running

ifuwerepbandj

ifuwerepbandj

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Memphis

Embers of Glory [EoG]

R/E

You might have had your account stolen. This happened to me once while I was in game, it kicked me off. So I immediately changed my password. I haven't had the problem again but I am definately scared it might happen.

Tachyon

Tachyon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Stoke, England

The Godless [GOD]

W/

Take a screenshot of the mesage that you're recieving and post it here. Perhaps that may help someone to clarify your situation.

batou

batou

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

probably someone with your account is playing on it from another computer

Red Locust

Red Locust

Site Contributor

Join Date: May 2005

Quit out of GW, press CTRL + ALT + DEL, go to the processes tab (on win xp), find and end all instances of GW.exe. Then start GW again. I get that message regularly, and this always solves my problem.

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Actually, this has happened to me quite often. Everytime it happened - 5 times or so now - I just restarted my computer and it was fine. Of course, Red Locust's idea should work, but I havn't tried it so i can't vouche.

And to the replies about someone else using your account, it should not matter, seeing as the problem is the actual STARTING up of Guild Wars.

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

Uhh guys, he's not in guildwars, he's trying to start it up and windows is telling him that it's already running.

Reboot the computer and try again, if that fails, uninstall guild wars and reinstall it.

Lord Cooper

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Black Death Knights

E/

the problem is when you last played guild wars and exited it didnt end all the processes related to it properly. easy fix is to reboot the comp. or just end the processes in task manager as has already been suggested.

Josh

Josh

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

England, UK

D/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by dargon
Uhh guys, he's not in guildwars, he's trying to start it up and windows is telling him that it's already running.

Reboot the computer and try again, if that fails, uninstall guild wars and reinstall it.
Uhh we know, but sometimes if you close a program, it still sometimes has the actual Process of it running in the Processing List, and as you can only have 1 Process of Guild Wars running (the tricks of registry editing aside) it won't let him, hold Ctrl, and Alt, press 'Del' and let go and a Windows Task Manager should come up, go on 'Processes', find 'Gw.exe', right-click End Process Tree, OK.

Not listed? Re-Boot.

Update us.

SaucE

SaucE

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

OgreSlayingKnife.com

[MEEP] Biscuit of Dewm

N/

When ever you are having PC issues, the first thing you always try is REBOOTING THE SYSTEM. 99% of the time it corrects the problem.


Reboot or terminate the GW.exe process like everyone else has mentioned.

Teklord

Teklord

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Lloyd.ab.ca

Lords of All

R/Mo

Ah the three R's of computers:

Reboot?
Re-install?
Re-format! (The last, but ultimate fix for non-hardware issues)

Of course some specific problems can be solved by other specific solutions.

Tachyon

Tachyon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Stoke, England

The Godless [GOD]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Teklord
Ah the three R's of computers:

Reboot?
Re-install?
Re-format! (The last, but ultimate fix for non-hardware issues)

Of course some specific problems can be solved by other specific solutions.
You missed out the fourth, Repair Install.