Guild Wars wont start..

virtuex7

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

New York City

Black Leopard Legion [BL]

E/Me

Ever since the new update, I can't seem to start Guild Wars, ( I haven't updated it yet, thats the problem )..

I start it up and its at the Connecting to Arenanet first window, and its just stuck at 0% and won't move. My internet is fine, the game ran fine before, what could the problem be? (I can play HL2DM and CS etc etc).

Any tips?

StephenD

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Durham, UK

Deadly Blood Brothers (DBB)

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by virtuex7
Ever since the new update, I can't seem to start Guild Wars, ( I haven't updated it yet, thats the problem )..

I start it up and its at the Connecting to Arenanet first window, and its just stuck at 0% and won't move. My internet is fine, the game ran fine before, what could the problem be? (I can play HL2DM and CS etc etc).

Any tips?
Try going into your Programfiles/GuildWars folder and click on GW there to open the client. If it works, replace the icon on the desktop with that icon in the program files icon.

virtuex7

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

New York City

Black Leopard Legion [BL]

E/Me

Thanks for the tip but that has the same affect (Connecting to ArenaNet) 0%

StephenD

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Durham, UK

Deadly Blood Brothers (DBB)

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by virtuex7
Thanks for the tip but that has the same affect (Connecting to ArenaNet) 0%
Hmm, thought that wouldn't work either.

Drakharran Zealot

Drakharran Zealot

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Kanada, eh?

Wait a little longer, it should move. That was the case for me.

virtuex7

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

New York City

Black Leopard Legion [BL]

E/Me

Yea I left it on for 2 hours a couple of nights ago, I'll try it again tonight. It's just pissing me off because I was playing fine up till that patch... Everything was running smooth always and I haven't had any major computer updates.

Sucks.

StephenD

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Durham, UK

Deadly Blood Brothers (DBB)

W/Mo

If there's still problems, a re-install of GW may help.

virtuex7

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

New York City

Black Leopard Legion [BL]

E/Me

Unforgiven

Unforgiven

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

US East

Dingos Are Really Neat [DaRN]

E/Mo

Is that after reinstall? And if so then you may are you on a router, if so then you might have to make your computer the DMZ because of ports and stuff happened to my bro with FFXI might be same issue.

virtuex7

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

New York City

Black Leopard Legion [BL]

E/Me

I did not reinstall yet, the problem is I'm not on a router or anything like that. I'm plugged straight into my cable modem.

Algren Cole

Algren Cole

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

check to make sure your cable modem doesn't have a built in router.

If you've got more than one Ethernet Out connections on your modem...it's actually a modem/router combo

virtuex7

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

New York City

Black Leopard Legion [BL]

E/Me

Nope, only one .

dog13000

dog13000

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Illinois

W/Mo

maybee it is as simple as firewall?

virtuex7

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

New York City

Black Leopard Legion [BL]

E/Me

I disabled my NAV firewall, and my Windows XP firewall too.

Unforgiven

Unforgiven

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

US East

Dingos Are Really Neat [DaRN]

E/Mo

You sure its not with the game then why dont you just try reinstalling. If that dont work try to get one of your friends or another computer to hook up to your modem and play the game. If it doesnt work then we will have a better idea of your problem.

Kelly

Kelly

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

California

Angel Sharks

E/R

i also have that same problem :S i just left it on for 2 hours no help... what exactly do i do with the router to help? i really wanna play again.

Dirkiess

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Uk, England.

E/Mo

Disabling firewalls doesn't always work. If you do this, the program and ports in question can still be locked out. There is possibly two ways to resolve this.

One. Completely remove the Firewall software, try Guildwars again. If it works, then reinstall the Firewall again, and let it pick up the Guildwars program to reinstall the required ports into the firewall.

Two. Remove any reference to the Guild Wars program located in your firewall, reboot the machine. Start Guildwars and let the firewall pick up the required Ports again.

It appears that every update, it requests a change at the firewall end for the reapplication of the Guild Wars program to access the required ports.

Also, never run more than one firewall on your PC. THis will cause major conflicts, and impact your performance too.

If that doesn't work, then I suggest a full uninstall and reinstall of GuildWars as sometimes it can be a corrupt file as well, due to the way the Guild Wars program works with one very large Data file.

supertramp

supertramp

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

In....... oh g2g

The Black Hand Gang

E/N

I have the same problem, except mine loads to arenanet, the the curser turns to guildwars stile, then freezes. It tryed reinstalling it, but it froze @ the end. Im a noob, so i have only played 2 times & i love it. Im not going to give up on it yet!

Gerrg27

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2005

yea...mine loads up to this page:

and then stops...

i added Gw to WinXP firewall's trusted programs but it didn't help.

Esprit

Esprit

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Dvd Forums [DVDF]

E/

If all fails, uninstall the game, restart. Run a registry cleaner to remove any extraneous registry files that may have been left over from Guild Wars, restart again, and reinstall the game.

supertramp

supertramp

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

In....... oh g2g

The Black Hand Gang

E/N

I got mine fixed! All I did was wiped the hard drive, got an ATI Radeon 9250 SE(made by ABIT) Then reinstalled GW. Now mine is fine.