Doing some debugging on my own connection... updater tries to connect to an IP address about once a second until it times out... 99.99999% of the times the server resets the connection immediatly (connection refused).
in the 0.00001% of times it works the launcher starts. THEN it's the same thing all over again with the next IP address in line...
My guess: this is an overloaded patch server refusing connections OR having massive troubles.
Let's hope it gets better today, maybe it's my bad luck to have bought the game on patch day...
Heh, after the trouble of getting the launcher to load, I'm now stuck downloading the patch on 97.1% (180.4MB of 186MB) It's been like this for about 5 minutes now.
edit: I cancelled, started again and it finished within seconds. I think this is non-too-stable tonight.
God damn it! I'm still waiting for this stupid launcher update, what kind of company ships a game with launcher problems. I'm ****ed off and still waiting for a fix!
Still PO'ed. I got past the launcher and into the patch but stuck at 30% for the past couple hours now. The patcher says :
Transferring 420kb / 30%
Modified 6656kb / 21mb (<--- is something wrong with this ??)
The transferring data numbers do go up though but the 30% never changes. And yes, I rechecked my firewall and turned it off and disabled the antivirus just to double check but still the same.
Reminds me of the "Good" old days of the EQ1 patches
Mine is going anywhere - it just sits there for fifteen minutes "Trying to update the launcher" and then gives me the time-out message. I just bought this game and I can't play it - nice going Cryptic! :rolleyes:
I've had this problem consistantly since release and Cryptic hasn't been able to do a thing about it. I get lucky and connect sometimes but really should I have to cross my fingers to hope to play a game I pay a monthly fee for?! Come on, Cryptic... this isn't getting silly. It's well past that... it's friggin' laughable! I'd be laughing if I wasn't so mad about not being able to play the game. Get it the <expletive omitted> together!
I'm getting that message for a long time then getting an unable to authenticate error.
Same problem here :mad:
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I get stuck at "crptic launcher autoupdater" then it times out saying "connection ide for too long". I actually got through to the login screen then the actual patch screen last night after 7 biillion attempts, then got stuck there trying to connect, then timed out on me, and havent been able to get passed"cryptic launcher autoupdater since. All firewalls, antivirus, routers are off and contacted my ISP to make sure ports 7000-7599 were open, even tried hotspot shield for the VPN deal, hoping that would help, nothing works.never had this trouble with ANY other online game,(wow, AoC, LotRO, ROM,GW, etc....)NEED HELP!!! Im running out of my 30 frre days!!!!!!
So i've run the game with no problems for awhile now, but now I'm getting this issue . . what could possibly be the reason?? I hope this is a server issue . ..
Been having this issue since early last week, The week before I was getting crash at atari screen, the week before that it was all smooth sailing with settings on high. Tickets in no solution yet.
Glad I'm not alone.
I've got this problem too. It seems to be a recurring one - I fixed it earlier in the week by copying the updated "Champions Online.exe" from a friends computer, but then three days later it's back to trying to update the launcher, and giving me this error
If they could put a link to the updated launcher on the web site, then a least we'd have a workaround.
it is comforting at some lvl that im not the only one with this prob, not comforting to know that it is a long running prob...i have had it b4(several times) but it just fixed by itself after several hours...not happening this time though!...it would be nice to know what is happening, the launcher is steadily downloading and i dont know if its going to eventually work or is it just wasting my bandwidth? should i just give up and try in a few days? a week maybe? i would like to play co, but if i cant there are better things i could be doing than watching "trying to update launcher. please be patient" like play one of the many other games out there that i CAN log onto!
oh come on guys...you shut the server down? what for, has anyone actually had any improvements cause im just sitting at the launcher still....over 10 hours later, y is it it was working after the patch but after the hour long maintenance it wont even begin to work? been maintained real good hey!
Got this on and off while playing the demo. Thought it might have been due to it being a demo, but sounds like it's pretty wide spread on "real" versions too. Will edit this post if it happens after I go live. (Steam seems to want to DL the game, even though I would think I'd have it already. Ah well......:p)
Just started with me too! I have never had this problem before so its really random and out of the blue for me. When everyone else was having various problems i thought " oh, it's just some freak problem that wont ever happen to me." Now after 5 months of the game runnin perfectly im having a problem i hope this is a one time thing or i will cancel my subscription.
yeah, now i'm getting this error now. i payed for a lifetime subscription to a game that i can't play. this problem need to be fixed NOW!! or i'm going to want some sort of compensation. it is unacceptable that they havn't fixed a problem they've known about for over 5 MONTHS!!
So this isn't a server problem? Would be good if Cryptic gave us some sort of information of what's going on... (I'm also unable to get past the "Trying to update the launcher. Please be patient." but I don't have infinite patience..)
Hmm, I got it to work now.. Did two things.. Might have been either one of them or neither and the problem was fixed by Cryptic. If it wasn't and you're still having problems you might as well give this a try:
* Set "Champions Online.exe" to run as Admin (Right click -> Properties -> Compatiblity -> Run as Administrator)
* Start Internet Explorer, I never use IE so it registered as the first time I used the program and I had to go through the small configuration guide. Check Internet Options -> Security and make sure "Enable Protected Mode" is UNTICKED for "Internet".
This is simply what I did, and then it worked. It doesn't mean it will work for you, it might just have been a coincidence it worked.
and now it works again. I have no idea whether it's a coincidence or not, but it seems to be working ok now - it only says "updating launcher" for a few secs now, and not every time, like it used to before today.
Same here, odd thing is I played today. More so I launched game from desktop and it successfully worked like 5-6 hours ago. Not sure when it started to happen, all I know since 8 PM roughly when I got back home and started the game, I got stuck on that little window. Been like that ever since.
Might have been either one of them or neither and the problem was fixed by Cryptic. If it wasn't and you're still having problems you might as well give this a try:
* Set "Champions Online.exe" to run as Admin (Right click -> Properties -> Compatiblity -> Run as Administrator)
This worked for me. Windows Vista has always been kind of finicky about this with certain games. Cryptic may have changed it so that this is required. Kudos to you, Nelien!
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I could just play normally this afternoon <.>
Well I hope it gets fixed quick.
in the 0.00001% of times it works the launcher starts. THEN it's the same thing all over again with the next IP address in line...
My guess: this is an overloaded patch server refusing connections OR having massive troubles.
Let's hope it gets better today, maybe it's my bad luck to have bought the game on patch day...
edit: I cancelled, started again and it finished within seconds. I think this is non-too-stable tonight.
How long am I to stay patient for when I don't even get a welcome screen? I've turned my Firewall off and still no lcuk, this sucks!
Transferring 420kb / 30%
Modified 6656kb / 21mb (<--- is something wrong with this ??)
The transferring data numbers do go up though but the 30% never changes. And yes, I rechecked my firewall and turned it off and disabled the antivirus just to double check but still the same.
Reminds me of the "Good" old days of the EQ1 patches
Same problem here :mad:
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Glad I'm not alone.
Please help.
If they could put a link to the updated launcher on the web site, then a least we'd have a workaround.
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As someone mentioned above ... Star Trek Online is out soon and if this is what we can expect then ILL PASS!
Edit : Seems to be back on now.
Hmm, I got it to work now.. Did two things.. Might have been either one of them or neither and the problem was fixed by Cryptic. If it wasn't and you're still having problems you might as well give this a try:
* Set "Champions Online.exe" to run as Admin (Right click -> Properties -> Compatiblity -> Run as Administrator)
* Start Internet Explorer, I never use IE so it registered as the first time I used the program and I had to go through the small configuration guide. Check Internet Options -> Security and make sure "Enable Protected Mode" is UNTICKED for "Internet".
This is simply what I did, and then it worked. It doesn't mean it will work for you, it might just have been a coincidence it worked.
http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=54340
and now it works again. I have no idea whether it's a coincidence or not, but it seems to be working ok now - it only says "updating launcher" for a few secs now, and not every time, like it used to before today.
This worked for me. Windows Vista has always been kind of finicky about this with certain games. Cryptic may have changed it so that this is required. Kudos to you, Nelien!
The funny thing was i already had c++ thing installed. Told it to do a repair so I can't be certain thats what fixed it