Guild Wars 2 Forum

Hi ive tried every thing i could by reading all the other posts. but everytime i use crossover and instal with GW2setup.exe i get a screen saying its downloading... it will get to 10243kb close then reopen to a black screen... so i figured out how to exit out of the black screen but it does this every time. and suggestions? I'm using and mid 2010 macbook pro with mountain lion.

Quinten Hicks wrote:

Hi ive tried every thing i could by reading all the other posts. but
everytime i use crossover and instal with GW2setup.exe i get a
screen saying its downloading... it will get to 10243kb close then
reopen to a black screen... so i figured out how to exit out of the
black screen but it does this every time. and suggestions? I'm using
and mid 2010 macbook pro with mountain lion.

Go to the "Tips & Tricks" section (look up near the top of the page underneath the large "Guild Wars 2".
There is an indepth guide on how to install which covers the crash issue your having.
You may also have to use the old launcher.

I've tired the -useoldlauncher and it doesnt give me a white screen mine is still black and most all post ive read say they use GW2.exe i dont have that file mine is named GW2setup.exe is this still the same thing? im just not super computer savvy andi dont want to have to buy a windows machine.

I had the same problem that you had. It seems that Guild Wars 2 now installs from GW2setup.exe. The GW2setup.exe is meant to install the GW2.exe file which is then able to install the whole game. Unfortunately (at least in my experience and it seems yours), it seems that GW2setup.exe cannot run on the Mac under CrossOver. What I ended up doing was copying a GW2.exe file from a friend's computer onto a USB drive, then placed it into the correct Bottle on my Mac. Using the -useoldlauncher, I was able to run the GW2.exe file on my Mac. Unfortunately, this requires you finding a copy of the GW2.exe file. If you don't know any Windows users to copy the GW2.exe file from, another friend of mine was able to find a copy of the GW2.exe file from a forum online where users were discussing installing Guild Wars 2.

As for the GW2setup.exe file itself, I can't help you. I can only verify that it is not just a problem that you're having and hope that someone else has a solution.

Where have people gotten the GWsetup.exe files, and when? Is this something ANet now provides for download from their web-site? Does anyone know when it changed?

Thanks,

Josh.

After logging into the Guild Wars 2 website, going to account, and then to downloads, there is a link to download Guild Wars 2. The file downloaded is Gw2Setup.exe. From what I gather, originally one would download GW2.exe which would then install the entire game to whatever folder it was placed in (I could be wrong, when I first tried downloading the game, Gw2Setup.exe was already in use). I believe the Gw2Setup.exe asks where to install to, then installs the GW2.exe file which then installs the game fully. I believe that ArenaNet switched from Gw2.exe to the Gw2Setup.exe in June, but I could be wrong.

Thanks very much for telling me about the difference between the files.... i have located the Gw2.exe file and downlaoded it

Voraka wrote:

After logging into the Guild Wars 2 website, going to account, and
then to downloads, there is a link to download Guild Wars 2. The
file downloaded is Gw2Setup.exe. From what I gather, originally one
would download GW2.exe which would then install the entire game to
whatever folder it was placed in (I could be wrong, when I first
tried downloading the game, Gw2Setup.exe was already in use). I
believe the Gw2Setup.exe asks where to install to, then installs the
GW2.exe file which then installs the game fully. I believe that
ArenaNet switched from Gw2.exe to the Gw2Setup.exe in June, but I
could be wrong.

I have no reason to believe that GWSetup.exe will take the same command-line options that Gw.exe recognized, but for the sake of experiment, you might try passing '-dx9single'. This has had the effect of fixing the 'black screen' problem for other users of the Gw.exe file.

Running the Gw2.exe file with -useoldlauncher or with -dx9single both allow the file to run on my computer. I tried using both commands with the Gw2Setup.exe file, but neither works for me. Under Gw2Setup.exe, the Guild Wars 2 client loader launches in the middle of a black background (same as the Gw2.exe does), loads for a bit, then disappears. It opens again, I hear a weird audio glitch (I hear the same thing in the Gw2.exe), but while the Gw2.exe would at this point allow logging in under -dx9single, the Gw2Setup.exe goes black.

You can download the GW2.exe file still. When you hit download it will give you a url to download the GW2setup.exe change the url to say GW2.exe and it will DL that file instead.

John wrote:

You can download the GW2.exe file still. When you hit download it
will give you a url to download the GW2setup.exe change the url to
say GW2.exe and it will DL that file instead.

Excellent! Ideally we'll be able to run GWSetup.exe eventually, but it will be great if this thing stays up for a while in the meantime.

Thanks for the tip!

John wrote:

You can download the GW2.exe file still. When you hit download it
will give you a url to download the GW2setup.exe change the url to
say GW2.exe and it will DL that file instead.

What is the download URL for GW2.exe? When I click on the link to download GW2Setup.exe, the link appears to me as https://account.guildwars2.com/download/win, which doesn't show the filename. Thanks!

Hi Connie,

The Gw2Setup.exe is automatically downloaded from http://cloudfront.guildwars2.com/client/Gw2Setup.exe. If you instead enter as the URL http://cloudfront.guildwars2.com/client/Gw2.exe a download for the Gw2.exe file should start.

Can someone explain the following to me as if I'm a 7-year old? (I've been using Macs for a decade mainly for graphic design, but have never, ever used Terminal for launching, running, etc. anything.)

I've been following the basic instructions (as shown in "Tips & Tricks") but realized I was trying to use it with Gw2Setup.exe without much luck. I have just downloaded Gw2.exe as I read that Gw2Setup.exe doesn't work with Crossover.

The following is what I need explained to me:

Now, restart the installer with "Run a Windows Command" (Linux) or
"Run Command..." (Mac):

1. For "Use Bottle:" set it to "Guild Wars 2"
2. Click "Browse" and point CrossOver at the "Gw2.exe" file
3. Click "Run"

At this point the Guild Wars 2 client should launch and begin
patching. Each time it crashes, restart it with the above method
(it usually downloads about 10,000 files before crashing).

I have a folder on my desktop named "Guild Wars 2" in which I put Gw2.exe. I opened Crossover, created a Win7 bottle called "Guild Wars 2" and told it to install from the folder on my desktop. Ran it, it installed about 10215KB, got a black screen... the whole nine yards.

I opened a Terminal window, not knowing what I was doing, and typed "run /Desktop/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.exe" and I get an error stating it can't find that command. I have a feeling I don't know what "Run Command..." means in the aforementioned steps.

What am I doing wrong? Can somebody please explain the above steps to me, again, like I'm 7 years old? Thanks immensely.

PS: Can I just re-start the download by selecting the executable file, selecting "open with...", and choosing Crossover? (Do I really need to use "Run Command..." trick?)

Hey. Open Crossover.
Then up the top in your menu bar (All the way at the top of your screen will be a "Programs" menu. Click that and then "Run Command" should appear under that. A small window will popup where you can click "Browse" and then locate your gw2.exe file :)