Guild Wars stuck at connecting

I havent played GW in a long time but my friend is bugging me to play the new characters and such, so i fired it up and downloaded ~16mb of updates

I type in my password and 'Connecting...' appears indefinitely

Tried with a few other accounts -- nothing.

Forwarded UDP/TCP on port 6112 (some site said it was for GW, didnt really look into it) nothing

Turned on DMZ... NOTHING

I am not computer illiterate, actually i am quite the opposite.

Any ideas how to resolve this?

I was able to get up to date, and log in for a bit, took a break then came back then same situation.

I think it's all the new temp accounts w/ everyone trying to log in overloading there servers. I would try again latter (still in the same boat as you).

(edit) sigh... I don't think I will be getting on tonight, guess I will be firing up UT 2004

Left it connecting for a while and it gave me an Error=058
:-/

Yeah, now I am getting this error.

I wonder what the heck is going on... seems like this happens an awful lot in this game. I wonder if it is this bad now how it's going to be during the whole 'factions' thing. Probably won't be able to connect the whole weekend at this rate if it can't even handle it now.

Tried last night, this morning, same error

Also thinking I really won't be able to do the pvp event at this rate.

try deleting gw.exe, and reinstall
if it doesn't work then you'd have to uninstall and reinstall, 1 gb download =D

edit. sorry it only works for the op problem, "I type in my password and 'Connecting...' appears indefinitely"

I have a sinking feeling your right...

I will fireup the laptop and see if can connect, if it does then I think I have a bad gw.dat

Will try this when I get home. Very glad I do have the install cd's to cut down reload time.

How do you all of the sudden get a bad gw.dat?

I am seriously starting to wish I had never bought this damn game and went straight to WoW as this game needs some serious fixing. Can't connect on a constant basis is just not kewl.

Ange1 has a very good point, when it updates, it replaces files inside of the gw.dat. If any of the files are installed wrong, corrupted, or came from the server bad, it will have some bad files inside of the gw.dat.

There have been issues that after something was patched (in the past) with some users that GW acted up, crashed, or would not work correctly until it was re-installed.

I played for many hours after the new patch was installed and had no problems. Just tonight it's acting up all the sudden so I don't see how it could be that with me. Although by the time I was done reinstalling it and all the crap that I had to download it would probably be working by then anywayZ :P

You were right, download tons of stuff but I'm able to log in.

I'm also having a similar problem. I have 3 characters last logged in at Lions Arch, when I try to log in with those characters it stays at 0% and it will eventulaly give me an Error 5, something about a Server or Routing Issue. I'll try deleting the gw.exe like mentioned earlier and see if that fixes it.

EDIT: I tried deleting the gw.exe and gw.dat and reinstalling, still no luck.

I'm having that problem as well... i cant enter the GH and the arenas because of it. However, i was able to 15 min ago, so i got no idea what's happening... and i think the Guilwars.com webby is down as well

same thing happened to me i got routing error..something to do with the server.. only got to log n to augura rock...and when try to portal the connection doesn't load at all and the error pop-up

From my perception there have been at least 3 or 4 new updates since last night. Any one of those incrementals could have corrupted your GW.dat file (NOT GW.exe....eek! ).

I've never had the problem, but it seems like people get corrupted incremental updates pretty frequently. It's kind of a pain, but all you have to do is delete GW.dat and let it re-download the one full update (as though you just installed the game).

I don't know what all the fuss is about. I've been gaming for over 20 years and GW is one of the most trouble free computer gaming products I've ever seen, especially as far as online gaming goes. I run it on 3 different computers myself, and have a lot of friends that have more problems with their ISPs than with GW. Most of the problems people have are related to their computer, not Guild Wars itself. Sometimes ANet has problems with servers in certain areas. I had a period of 3 days a coupla months ago that I couldn't connect, but guess what, s**t happens. I'm connecting just fine today, and maybe tomorrow the servers in my area will have a problem, who knows?

The way I see it ANet isn't charging monthly fees to maintain their servers all over the world or to provide and support new content. If they have a problem that takes some time to fix every now and then I can forgive them for that. If you're having a problem and you're pretty sure it's not on your end, submit a problem ticket with ANet support. That's what I did, and they responded very quickly that they knew about the problem and were working on it.

hmm yep the guildwars.com seem to be not connected too!

well here the in game error look like:



plus i cant go to guildwars website..since it not connected at all!

yea same for me here

Same problem here as well....

Edit: Started it up on my bros laptop, it downloads a couple of mbs of the update then gets the same error

I have the same problem... I tried a re-install for a possible .dat fix, but nothing.

one of my Chars spawns in Battle island np's, but as soon as I portal I get the code 005 error.... arghhhhh fustrating

Yes I get the same error and IP as Cynn Princess. All I can do in the game is visit the Great Temple of Balthazar and watch Guild Battles. But I deleted my PvP char to make another and I can't make a new one now. So bascially I'm stuck with a useless game. I guess the server took a hammering over the last 24hours.