Client download issues and troubleshooting

[Jervon]

I can't get the client to launch from the Launcher. At first the connect button did nothing, so I changed it to run as admin. I also changed all files to NOT be read-only. The launcher is in the same directory as the war.exe file. Running as admin, most of the time it gives me a login info error stating incorrect user/pass. I changed my password to be 8 characters long, only lower-case letters, no numbers or characters. As evident from my posting here, my account info is valid. I have restarted the launcher literally over 100 times now. Mostly it yields the user/pass error, maybe 15% of the time it still does nothing when I click connect. A previous user posted about files being blocked because they were on an older win os and directly copied; I transferred all files to a FAT32 drive which removes all the stream/blocking data and repeated all the above; the exact issue persists.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Same here. The connect button does not start the game. Forum button works.

[Tiggo]

just try often

[Jervon]

just try often

How often? Tried about 200 times, still nothing. Sometimes the connection button turns grey. Thats all.

[Tiggo]

for me it works after 2-3 times.

[Sigurthr]

I've tried literally hundreds of times now. I'm thinking it is more than just an intermittent failure to execute which is worked around by repeated attempts, even though the symptoms are similar. With a major requirement of the launcher being war.exe as writable, it follows that the launcher must need to write data to that file, and at the very least do something like a shell command to start up the main game executable. However, I see no evidence that war.exe has ever been modified or even run once since I downloaded it and there are no error logs being generated, making me conclude that it is likely there is an issue with the launcher preventing the line(s) of code that actually instructs war.exe to load from executing.

Wasn't there a recent update to deal with an exploit? Perhaps there is a version mismatch issue at hand for those of us joining after that update.

[Tiggo]

all updates are only DB/server updates nothing to the client

[Sigurthr]

Ah, well in that case I have no idea what the problem could be. Do the devs at least know of the issue? I don't mind being (very) patient if they are. =)

[DaScoub]

When you can't launch the game, do you follow those steps ? :
1 - Launch the launcher as administrator
2 - Click on connect
3 - Nothing happens
4 - Close the launcher
5 - Go back to 1

[Sigurthr]

Yup, I double click Connect after the two server icons are green lit, wait ten sec while watching task manager to see if any programs are called, and if nothing or after it gives the user/pass error I close the launcher and retry.

[Dracarys]

Data.myp:
System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot load Counter Name data because an invalid index '' was read from the registry.
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetStringTable(Boolean isHelp)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_NameTable()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_CategoryTable()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.CounterExists(String category, String counter, Boolean& categoryExists)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.CounterExists(String machine, String category, String counter)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.InitializeImpl()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter..ctor(String categoryName, String counterName, String instanceName, Boolean readOnly)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter..ctor(String categoryName, String counterName, String instanceName)
at MYPHandler.MYPHandler..ctor(String filename, del_FileTableEventHandler eventHandler_FileTable, del_FileEventHandler eventHandler_Extraction, HashDictionary hashDic)
at RoRLauncher.Client.UpdateWarData()

This is what i get, and then it fires up and simply sits there. It wont load the server, wont do anything but play the opening music and sit as if waiting for conformation from the server. But nothing ever happens, ive tried everything and followed all the guides on here and nothing works.