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I got launcher to work by reinstalling... will let you know if update fails

no more anchored cans in the forcefields?
kinda hard for wormhole alli's...

Thanks for the reply, done this and got a little further, but...

Now after the "warning client modified, repair me" message, I ran the launcher and it stated "failed to add block" on almost every file, now the evefile.eve just sits at 11mb ram usage and does nothing, even though the launcher says "ready to play"

I'm getting quite annoyed at the moment...

I pull up the corp blueprints tab of the science & industry window and attempt to copy the list of blueprints onto the clipboard and into a spreadsheet. Copy+paste to spreadsheet has me drooling.

I notice that the columns "copy", "ML", "PL", and "Runs" don't make it fully to my spreadsheet. I only get that information for those blueprints that have been visible in the window since the last time the window was refreshed. So if I have more blueprints than are visible in the window, I have to slowly scroll down to the bottom before copying to the clipboard.

Steps to reproduce:
Get a corp hangar with dozens of blueprints (50+ should do it)
Pull up the corp blueprints tab in science and industry
Make sure the table with the blueprints has input focus
Hit ctrl+C
Paste into a spreadsheet
Scroll down far enough, and beyond that point, the Copy, ML, PL, and Runs fields will all be blank.

Workaround:
Go back into eve, and slowly scroll the blueprints window to the bottom, so that every blueprint is at some point visible.
Copy to clipboard again
Paste into the spreadsheet
All info is now there.

I imagine the client is only grabbing the info for those columns as it needs it to display them; I'm sure some people have thousands (tens of thousands? hundreds?) of blueprints in some corp hangars and grabbing the ML and PL on each all at once would cause a lag spike like no one's business. Perhaps if someone tries to copy to clipboard, that should trigger a full retrieval of information, at the cost of a lag spike.

I run the PC client.

This is my 4th attempt to reinstall the game. Neither the launcher and or the repair work. If they don't crash, they don't launch, or they just throw up some reason as to why they don't load (My favorite is saying no internet). Honestly, what kind of code was thrown together that appears to have only been partially tested and even then, it was done by an angry intern who didn't care. You guys have sent bad patches out before where there were all kinds of stuff wrong, but this whole wont even load the launcher that allows you to launch the game thing...ditch the launcher, and bring back the old school way of doing this

So, here we are with Escalation and I'm still seeing the same issues I posted about back in Crucible. BTW, every Crucible patch after the one that introduced the launcher displayed the same issues, I just had given up on posting about it.

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Here's the steps I had performed
1) Run launcher.exe
1a) launcher.exe downloads and updates the launche
1b) Now launcher.exe is broken (16-bit issue): screenshot

2) OK, so I attempt a repair operation, though I know it's probably not going to work
2a) repair.exe breaks on Step 3/7 just as it did ever since the launcher was introduced: logfile

3) Basically now for users such as myself who experience this issue on Win7, we're stuck as we cannot run the launcher, repair tool, or manually apply .patch files shared by a mate (since the launcher doesn't work

4) The workarounds suggested by CCP Sputnik here don't work obviously in this scenario, except for re-installing the full client, which CCP can imagine is a pain, especially for those who have ISP download caps or have a satellite/mobile ISP (fortunately I have a capless ISP but it's still a royal pain to re-install)

5) RadioBANITA's workaround here does not apply to this issue, as the launcher is corrupted and hasn't successfully downloaded the launcher patch installer yet

6) The only solution is to have a mate or computer that is not affected, to upload a working copy of the launcher folder, whereupon the launcher would be the correct version, and it would be able to download the EVE patch normally

7) Anyone with protocol content filtering on their software or hardware AV/Firewall still gets the issue where the working launcher is unable to download the patch, noted per the Crucible thread way back

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Corrupted (NON-WORKING) launcher directory: here

WORKING launcher directory: here (overwrite the corrupted launcher folder in \CCP\EVE\)

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So in conclusion:
1) launcher still doesn't update itself correctly on some Win7 machine
2) repair tool fails at 3/7 if launcher got corrupted during patchin
3) protocol content filtering is still an issue causing us to have to disable/lower security settings on our AV/Firewall
4) users are still forced to come up with their own solutions and workaround

Kinda sounds like the Crucible issues still haven't been ironed out, eh? :P

P.S. CCP's forum software's "save draft automatically feature" doesn't save the entirety of the text; some symbols at the end of each line gets truncated :P~

Significant drop in fps 30-40%
Win 64
Ati 7770 12.4 catalyst driver
16gb 4ghz i2500k

Went from 280 > 200 single, multi boxing 4 clients now runs at 20-30fps.

graphics set low/off/none other than med textures/lod.

Windows 7

Updated Eve as standard and launcher shows server is online, however when starting the game the login screen shows server unknown:

Connection Failed:
Could not connect to the specified address. Odds are that you have not established an internet connection, the server isn't running, or the server address or port number was wrong.

Ran repair tool twice, but no joy.

Stumped....

Edit #1: Tried to load Sisi, patched as normal and then and Unknown Error. Repair tool does nothing. Not sure is this is related or not.

Still stumped.....

My Final Work Around was to copy my hidden settings folder for eve_tranquility (the x86) and then delete everything else.


Then reinstall the client fresh, and let it do its thing, it took about 3 hours to download and install, thanks for that blazing speed.


It was then stable and launched properly, so I copied my settings folder in and the game runs fine without losing any of the window settings or other things that I had personalized about my particular client.





Its really stupid that this was the fix, but it is what it is.



I await tomorows patch to fix the things that todays patch broke that rebreaks **** so i have to do this all over again.

If thats what they said word for word, which it doesnt sound like them, i personally would shoot an email with a copy of it up the chain for customer service. i've been doing computer and system repair for 5 years now in the army, and i've never talked to another soldier like that. i'm a highly stressed soldier, talking to other highly stressed soldiers, and if i can keep my calm and talk to them saying "we are continuing to remedy the issue, if you have any more details or logs you can provide from other users having the same issue, this would be greatfully appreciated", never "yeah, i'm working on it, now quit calling"...and if you've ever met operators in the military, they couldn't tell you what they ate for breakfeast let alone what the issue is other than "its broken".