Error

Errors may happen in Guild Wars, just like any other software. The reason is often unclear, as it can be client-side, server-side, or anywhere in the vast internet between the two. The following list may help a frustrated user to pin down the issue and resolve it.

Non-critical Errors
These are in-game errors that will not cause the game to crash back to Windows desktop, but kick you back to the login screen or the character selection screen.

Guild Wars will display an error description that ends with "(Code=###)" (previously "Err=###" or "NetErr=###") with ### being a 3-digit error code:

Critical Errors
These errors cause the game to crash back to Windows desktop, or to refuse starting in the first place:
 * Critical error
 * Repairing data archive
 * Error: Disk Full
 * ... more to be added

To be elaborated