LFG tool keeps crashing my game

#1 - Feb. 19, 2014, 3:32 a.m.
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Don’t know what to say beside the added screenshot. I am on EU servers atm and it doesn’t crash on all subsections, only the popular ones like AC so I’m kind of wondering if someone didn’t find an exploit to cause game crash by feeding broken lfg text or something.

[edit : yeah, it’s not happening anymore at the moment. I could be wrong but I really feel like something wrong is going on.]

#32 - Feb. 19, 2014, 1:59 p.m.
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Hey everyone. Thank you all for your reports on this issue! We’ve got a bug submitted which is under review by the programming team. That said, if you continue to run into this issue, please make sure that you continue to submit your crash logs, including any information you have which could help reproduce the crash. Some examples:

Did you click on a particular category which crashed you? Were there LFG listings in that category?
Did you type a certain character or word into the party window that may have caused it to crash?
Did Scarlet do it?

Additionally, it may be worth trying to add the -repair flag to your client shortcut and allowing it to check your .dat file for any errors. It may not address the problem, but only takes about 10 minutes to verify the integrity of your game data.


For Windows Users:

  1. Make sure you create a shortcut to your Gw2.exe file. This can be placed anywhere on your computer.
  2. Right-click the shortcut, and type " -repair" (without the quotes at the end of the Target line. It should look something like: C:\Games\Gw2Dev\Gw2Dev.exe -repair
  3. Hit ‘OK’, and run the client. It should automatically check and repair any damaged files.
  4. Remove the -repair flag once it has finished, then try running the client normally. If this does not solve the problem, be sure to provide as much information as possible in the crash window.

Worst-case scenario, we are aware of the issue and tracking a fix! Thank you again for the reports, and good hunting!

#42 - Feb. 19, 2014, 4 p.m.
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Thanks for the additional information, everyone. Scarlet has been convinced that the LFG tool is not essential to her plans. A fix for the crash is inbound, though it’s still up to you to deliver a message to Scarlet from the free people of Tyria.

Thanks again!