I've been having a weird issue since Q's Winter Wonderland went away. After I hit "engage" in the launcher the game just doesn't start...not even the loading screen comes up....the game simply refuses to load and instantly shuts itself off.
Computer specs:
System type: Windows 10 Home (No updates available), 64-Bit Operating System, x64-based processer
Processer: Intel(R) Core i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70 GHz 2.40 GHz
Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Video Card Driver Version 385.28 (No updates available)
Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080, 60 Hz
Primary ship: U.S.S. Lacus Clyne, Dyson Science Destroyer/U.S.S. Fausticorn, Multi-Mission Reconnaissance Explorer
Secondary ship: U.S.S. Rainbow Dash, Odyssey Tactical Cruiser/I.S.S. Princess Cadance, Mirror Assault Cruiser
Tertiary ship: I.S.S. Freedom Gundam, Mirror Deep Space Science Vessel
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"-Grind is good!" --Gordon Geko
Accolades checklist: https://bit.ly/FLUFFYS
Primary ship: U.S.S. Lacus Clyne, Dyson Science Destroyer/U.S.S. Fausticorn, Multi-Mission Reconnaissance Explorer
Secondary ship: U.S.S. Rainbow Dash, Odyssey Tactical Cruiser/I.S.S. Princess Cadance, Mirror Assault Cruiser
Tertiary ship: I.S.S. Freedom Gundam, Mirror Deep Space Science Vessel
My YouTube Channel
Primary ship: U.S.S. Lacus Clyne, Dyson Science Destroyer/U.S.S. Fausticorn, Multi-Mission Reconnaissance Explorer
Secondary ship: U.S.S. Rainbow Dash, Odyssey Tactical Cruiser/I.S.S. Princess Cadance, Mirror Assault Cruiser
Tertiary ship: I.S.S. Freedom Gundam, Mirror Deep Space Science Vessel
My YouTube Channel
Anyway, rolling back the version is suboptimal, but it seems to work. You might give that a shot.
It might be useful to see what happened right before that. Perhaps if you can paste the 10-15 final lines of the output?
"-Grind is good!" --Gordon Geko
Accolades checklist: https://bit.ly/FLUFFYS
I don't think this is related to your problem. I've been getting that error message for a while now, and I am able to launch the game. I started getting it on December 1, 2017, right after force-verify stopped working.
Holodeck ticket 4,626,730: "Force verify" no longer works
In addition, I'm also getting account-server related timeouts when I manually start GameClient.exe in the live folder and try to log-in after loading. In other words, I can get past the launcher in a round-about way, but there are problems related to contacting the account server.
"-Grind is good!" --Gordon Geko
Accolades checklist: https://bit.ly/FLUFFYS
180128 18:40:54 10 [1]: ERROR: Failed to initialize registry key reader/writer. Please verify that the location of the registry key has not changed.
This ^^ and re-installed launcher work for me
Unfortunately this is not working for me. I still can't connect with the account server no matter what I do.
"-Grind is good!" --Gordon Geko
Accolades checklist: https://bit.ly/FLUFFYS
I had to load the Neverwinter launcher and drop-tab it down to Holodeck. Got in just fine that way.
Update: Getting it on all three launchers now. Guess Cryptic really doesn't like people that use VPNs, since that's the only thing that's changed since the last time I tried to log in. Why the hate, Cryptic?
Here's a map to show how much they've screwed up the game map.
Computer specs:
System type: Windows 10 Home (No updates available), 64-Bit Operating System, x64-based processer
Processer: Intel(R) Core i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70 GHz 2.40 GHz
Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Video Card Driver Version 385.28 (No updates available)
Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080, 60 Hz
Primary ship: U.S.S. Lacus Clyne, Dyson Science Destroyer/U.S.S. Fausticorn, Multi-Mission Reconnaissance Explorer
Secondary ship: U.S.S. Rainbow Dash, Odyssey Tactical Cruiser/I.S.S. Princess Cadance, Mirror Assault Cruiser
Tertiary ship: I.S.S. Freedom Gundam, Mirror Deep Space Science Vessel
My YouTube Channel
If you use Windows Defender, check if you have the new "Controlled Folder Access" feature turned on. That would almost certainly give you problems with things being updated within the main system drive folder structure (Program Files, registry etc).
Otherwise, run the verify integrity on the launcher, if that fails to fix it, re-install STO.