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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Hey

has anyone had issues with the loader/launcher constantly crashing?
I recently played the 10day buddy key/trial thingy, then i bought the game before the weekend (via Steam), went to play with my existing install and it wanted to install a 6gb patch? i thought TRIBBLE that i'll download the client through steam since thats where i bought it since it was roughly the same size.

Anyway, took 2 nights (during offpeak time) to download it (steam went reeeeal slow the first night, second night it finished it off at full speed), i went to launch it this morning all excited to play, and the loader lets me login, then the blue button comes up "patch", then the loader just freezes and crashes with the cryptic error thingy popping up to send an error report.

I just tried "verifiing" the steam files via steam, and it came up 7 files not verified and will be redownloaded, then it started downloadng 6Gb's of data again !!

I'd let it download but i've only got 4gb's of peak data left, and 7gb offpeak.
So anyone had this issue? I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate with a Quad core Q9550, 6Gb ram and ATI 4870 gpu,
I tried running that nettest thingy, and it gives weird readings, one minute everything will past, then 1 or 2 ports will fail/timeout, then they'll pass again. I turned all my firewalls and such off so basically i'm completely unprotected/unrestricted too the net, so im wondering if its an international link problem (im in australia)

pretty frustrating spending days to download the game, then have it TRIBBLE up and want to redownload and destroy my quota for the month, not to mention ive burnt 2 days off my free 30days that comes with buying the damn game (and who knows how many more days i'll loose till it works....)
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I get this occasionally and its one of the more annoying bugs that STO still has. I find that turning off Fast Launch in the option menu and manually starting the game gets around this normally. The only time I still get those crashes is when I'm trying to switch to Tribble server and it takes a few goes to persuade the client to change over.
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