My computer was infection by the ukash virus yesterday, which was professionally removed today but its had some kind of impact on STO. Now Arc, the launcher and game itself all take ages to load after each click to bring them up. What used to be a few seconds can take a good minute. Literally after I hit the ENGAGE button, it will seem it hasn't worked until the black loading screen appears a minute later. Before yesterday, this took seconds.
It gets there in the end and the game oddly plays fine when I'm in, its just this whole process leading up to it.
Any advice on how to speed this up or whats happened?
1) Arc now takes a good minute to start after clicking on the icon
2) First time, the Arc launcher fails to login due to time out
3) After trying another sign in, it goes into Arc
4) Launching STO, the STO launcher fails to boot up first try. Works a second time (but doesn't appear for about 50 seconds)
5) After hitting ENGAGE, the STO loading screen doesn't kick inuntil about a minute
6) After I exit the game, the option to play STO is no longer on the Arc list like it should be until I restart the computer
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1) Arc now takes a good minute to start after clicking on the icon
2) First time, the Arc launcher fails to login due to time out
3) After trying another sign in, it goes into Arc
4) Launching STO, the STO launcher fails to boot up first try. Works a second time (but doesn't appear for about 50 seconds)
5) After hitting ENGAGE, the STO loading screen doesn't kick inuntil about a minute
6) After I exit the game, the option to play STO is no longer on the Arc list like it should be until I restart the computer
So any theories why all this is now happening?