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Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
edited November 2012 in PC & Technical Issues
I recently reinstalled CO on Steam over Christmas and the game worked fine until yesterday. Initally I got an unable to authenticate message whenever I tried to login. Thinking it's an issue with my firewall, I turned it off but to no avail. I decided to reinstall the game on steam and it became worse. Champions Online.exe would run but I'm now unable to see the launcher at all!

Infuriated, I decided to download the client again and install it on a seperate drive. And the problem persists, despite me launching the game using an independent client install, I'm still unable to see the launcher at all. Though Champions Online.exe continues to run and takes up memory in the background, no user interface window pops up.

Any suggestions?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    sounds like the hidden launcher problem where the launcher goes to a virtual window.
    two things to try to fix if it is the problem

    1.

    •Launch your Champions/star trek Online Launcher. It will do the whole sit there on taskbar and tray with nothing showing.
    •Open up task manager (right click on task bar, select Task manager, or press ctrl+alt+del and select Task manager).
    •In task manager, minimize and then maximize said champions/star trek online launcher program through task manager (right click on the champs/star online application in the taskbar list.)

    or
    2.
    download http://files.champions-online.com/ShowLauncherWindows.exe
    run this program (if using win7 or vista run as admin) right after you launch the game. be sure you do not have any other windowed application running.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    It works!!!

    Thanks.
  • loveisagunloveisagun Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    My problem is similar. But when I look in the task manager there is only one process champions online, there is no application.
  • ammo3656ammo3656 Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I downloaded CO literally like an hour ago from this very site. It's not working though, I'm having major launcher issues. "The patchclient got a message while it was in a state with no response function." I've now downloaded 3 new launchers each with the same issue! If that doesn't happen then the launcher starts, and it's hidden. When I do get it shown, it's showing the same "Cryptic Launcher Autoupdate" window and I receive the same Patcher error again. Any solution for that as well?:confused: Does anyone have a working launcher I could download?
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • deathsentry2012deathsentry2012 Posts: 149 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Am having the same issue with the launcher.. can't do anything..where the hell is the support
  • nitrogenliquidnitrogenliquid Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Same here, got connection error after 2 attempts, are you in europe?
  • oneheadedboyoneheadedboy Posts: 85 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    nitrogenliquid wrote: »
    Same here, got connection error after 2 attempts, are you in europe?

    I'm now having this issue. I'm US based. Launcher tries to open, "tried connecting 2 times," error.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • drreverenddrreverend Posts: 534 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Same error just hit me. Game was really lagging, so I logged off to reset it. Try to log back in, get this error. Tries two times then says "Unable to establish connection to Patch Server. Please check your internet connection. If problems persist, please contact Technical Support."
  • ghennkinsghennkins Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I also logged out earlier today and can no longer get back on the game.

    Click the game shortcut
    little box in top left of screen "connecting to patch server"
    it tries twice and I get this:
    Unable to establish connection to patch server.

    Been like that for 3 hours now.
  • drreverenddrreverend Posts: 534 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Looking through this forum, it looks like this not an uncommon problem. How do we fix it? Someone must know.
  • baronlufiusbaronlufius Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I have been trying to get on for 2 hours now...
    I've resorted to watching DSN on Netflix for my cold New England weekday evening off...
  • nitrogenliquidnitrogenliquid Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Basically...we *are* currently contacting the technical support:tongue:
  • falkon311falkon311 Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Anything "https://secure.crypticstudios.com/whatever" doesn't work either.
  • oneheadedboyoneheadedboy Posts: 85 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    At least they're aware of the issue- Check out the notice in the red box: http://co.perfectworld.com/
    We are aware of some issues with patching. We are working to resolve the issue.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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