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Patch server borked

stolokstolok Member Posts: 152 Arc User
edited March 2022 in Windows and General: PC, Network, and Other Technical Issues
Yesterday I spent the entire day trying to get another machine I keep as a spare to update it's copy of STO. It would download for a while and just stop. And sit there. So I'd have to kill it and start it again. Then it would do the same thing again. All day long. I finally gave up and turned off the machine.

Today I start my regular machine, which is up-to-date, and try to login, and it starts patching when there hasn't been a patch...

Is it going to stop and sit there like the other machine did all day yesterday? I think your patch server has a problem.

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  • stolokstolok Member Posts: 152 Arc User
    The main system fortunately finished its inexplicable patch and I could log in. The other system is just the same as yesterday. It starts downloading the patch, then at some random point loses the thread and just sits there. The launcher cannot be closed, either. Not with the button on the window. It has to be killed externally.
  • stolokstolok Member Posts: 152 Arc User
    After several more retries -- it once got to 97.7 percent before dying -- I connected an eSATA disk to my main system with the updated files and copied the game onto that, then move it to the other system and copied the files into the existing game directories on the second system. Finally, it is possible to login from my other system. But what happens at the next update? Will at least one of my systems be able to get the latest patch?
  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 3,179 Arc User
    I don't know if it's related but it might be worth a try to enable a gameplay proxy in your launcher as depicted here.
  • strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,671 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2022
    After THURSDAYS Mar 17th Patch, I couldn't LOGIN for most of the day, then several discovered using a VPN or turning Client PROXY fixed the issue.

    However what was really strange first, I first tried uninstalling the Client, and then when it went to download the first 50 mb of the Client it took forever. That took almost 50 minutes, which was horribly slow. Once it finally got the Client loaded, it improved considerably!

    The person above, however posted the LINK so read thru it.
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  • stolokstolok Member Posts: 152 Arc User
    edited March 2022
    Hmm, I have an additional system, very old and rarely used. So old I converted it to Linux when they dropped Win 7 support. It couldn't run any newer version of Windows. :) But it does run STO reasonably well at somewhat reduced settings. When I set the proxy and tried to get this one to update, it had the same problem. So whatever is happening is apparently not related to this other problem that is fixed by using the proxy setting.

    Today, after the latest patch though, I updated on my main system and the secondary system with no problems. So, this is just something to keep an eye on for now... not sure if it's worth turning on the ancient third system for just one update.
  • stolokstolok Member Posts: 152 Arc User
    And now it has started again. The main system updated fine yesterday, but when I try to update the other one today it dies with the download 80-90 percent complete. And sits there.
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