Hi there,
I haven't played STO in quite some time, but I had that desire today to get started again. Unfortunately, I can't get the game to run.
I'm using the old launcher (from before Arc), which patched fine for me. I hit engage and the game starts up. Get to a black screen which says Cryptic and has a loading bar, which goes all the way across.
After that, the screen switches to the Legacy of Romulus logo and Loading... under that. This is where the process freezes up. If you click the screen, it indicates that GameClient.exe has stopped responding and lets you either close the program or wait.
When I last played, the process was exactly the same, only I was able to reach and play the game just fine. Any ideas? I've had a lifetime subscription nearly from STO's start and certainly don't want to lose that investment.
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The trick is to not click it at all, just let it load. And if it says that it doesn't react anymore, do not stop it. It takes around 3 to max 15 mins.
This usually happens to me as well as soon it's patched.
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
~CaptainSmirk
Same here. Though it usually only happens the first time I load the game after a patch. After that it loads just fine until the next patch.
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
I too have been having this trouble. And it was rare until 9.5, then afterwards it happened on every patch. It's getting rather annoying, the usual tricks to fix aren't working this time. Just funny I can play STO on my laptop, which uses ARC.
Suspicious this is on purpose to get people to start using it. But STO runs a ton smoother without it.
I do not think ARC has anything to do with it. I cannot get past the CRYPTIC Loading screen myself and it does not make any difference if I go through ARC or the normal loader. Once I get past the CRYPTIC loading screen it crashes and tells me it cannot decompress properly and no amount of force verifying seems to help. The latest patch also did not help.
Then it indeed is the STO programming. The computer I been using to play STO for the past 2-3 years isn't able to connect and getting the Patcher Error, while my Laptop that I use as backup only loaded STO when the ARC Khan Outfit offer was first accounced.
Force verifying does no good for me as well, cannot use the main computer still, even 24 hrs later.
So be nice if the programmers could find what's wrong. Because I do not want to spend 48 hours redownloading STO and installing ARC on my main.