This happened to me recently when starting to level a few old alts I made, but not consistently. I have 2 vanilla Federation characters and 1 Romulan (allied KDF if it mattered though doesn't seem like ti should). One of the federation toons failed the other two got their doffs. Characters were created around the same time…
Still failing for me after tryign on and off for better part of an hour. Tried restarts, arc restarts, and bypassing arc and launcher entirely (though in the process found that Arc has mangled my installs at this point cross-pollinating NWO and STO files - WTF is that about). So for now I'm going to boldly go to Guild…
Strangely my STO login was fines until now despite seeing problems with NWO yesterday, but as of a few minutes ago I can't even make it out of the launcher login due to "Unable to authenticate: Connection to the account server timed out." Forget feeding the hamster, it's likely dead. Send in the nanoprobes.
So, for me running normally gets past Cryptic screen and crashes on New Dawn loading screen. I'm on 15.11 with a 7770. Using "-d3d9" DID work for me, at least to finally get into the game itself, but I haven't played around much so can't vouch for stability or crashes during gameplay. I see there is also the "workaround"…
Have been away on other games for a while but poked my head to check any Black Friday sales, especially if there was a lifetime sub discount which the wiki had listed as having occurred last year. Then did a serious WTF that there was just a sale on lifetime sub but it was turned off yesterday? What marketing genius came…