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Win 8. Every patch breaks game since Odessey.
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brinelan
#21 - 2013-09-17 11:53:46 UTC
You know, if you're getting problems that not that many other people are getting and ccp cant reproduce then it typically indicates something on your machine is causing issues. Is your machine completely up to date (yes even the .net install in optional updates), and malware free? Do you have any programs that are really invasive that can cause changes in how other programs work or block certain background functions? do you have a non standard setup?

If it were an issue with the game everyone would be having the same problems.
Lucas Kell
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S.N.O.T.
#22 - 2013-09-17 12:38:55 UTC
AngelFood wrote:
Many others on win 8 and other platforms are having this issue since 1.1 actually!
Other than the one patch which the announced on twitter as having issues, and since fixed, I've not seen many people saying this, and there's plenty of people here confirming no issues. This would point to client side issues, and one of the more common ones is where people crash it out mid patch thinking it's frozen, which leaves the game half patched and causes some issues.

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Zuran Aramingo
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2013-09-17 20:04:12 UTC
Sarmatiko wrote:
1. Update game with repair.exe
2. Run and log in with bin\exefile.exe
^Even people with linux can run the game using this method. If you fail with W8 then there is problem with your system, not EVE client.

If repair.exe failing - search problems in your network connection setup, firewall settings, turn off UAC.
If everything fails - don't use Windows 8.



You really don't think I tried this.

To be clear. It works just fine on a fresh install of the game. Just fine. I can download the whole thing and it works fine.

It's the launcher. It's a normal install of Win 8. One user.

It worked just fine for at least two months. I ran this trial and one before I let die. So around two months of perfect running. It even patched back then.

It now stops at 15% at the launcher.

which is a very common error that repair doesn't fix because it then crashes. I did try everything. Ran from direct files and not shortcuts, ran patcher several times. Ran REPAIR FOR HOURS OVER AND OVER AND OVER TO NO EFFECT. I tried everything the GM said such as deleting the Manifest file.




Nothing works except just reinstalling the game.

Then it works fine until the patch.
Zuran Aramingo
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#24 - 2013-09-17 20:06:14 UTC
Signal11th wrote:
Happens to me on Windows 7, you haven't per chance changed any user details since you orginally installed EVE have you?

Mine does it because it was orginally installed on a domain user account and then the machine was taken off the domain and used a local admin account. Since then every patch it errors. I'd imagine its a permissions issue somewhere on a file.

I just run the repair tool and its fixes it until the next time.




Single user. I can replicate the problem by installing the last version and allowing it to patch. It breaks the game and repair.

A latest "offline" download works absolutely fine.


So I can play, I just have to redownload the entire game every time it patches.
Zuran Aramingo
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2013-09-17 20:09:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Zuran Aramingo
brinelan wrote:
You know, if you're getting problems that not that many other people are getting and ccp cant reproduce then it typically indicates something on your machine is causing issues. Is your machine completely up to date (yes even the .net install in optional updates), and malware free? Do you have any programs that are really invasive that can cause changes in how other programs work or block certain background functions? do you have a non standard setup?

If it were an issue with the game everyone would be having the same problems.


(I even went ahead and fresh install the entire OS to avoid any Steam interference. I didn't even install windows antivirus. I disabled the firewall. I tried the F5 refresh the recommend in the dozens of thread on this problem that they seem to have over and over again. I'm actually quite saavy at this since it's been now days and days of reading threads and postings. So now it's like a challenge and there's literally no answer for this issue.)

But to be clear again, a fresh install works fine. You have to redownload the game after every patch, and that is not cool.

I'm having a COMMON problem with literally a dozen unanswered threads in the Issues, Workarounds, and dead silence section of the forum.

Here's CCP's link to Known launcher problems.

http://community.eveonline.com/updates/knownissues.asp


and feel free to see for yourself. I even helped them by making a post of all the unanswered posts about this EXACT porblem I'm having.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=278744&find=unread
Herr Hammer Draken
#26 - 2013-09-17 21:18:20 UTC
Have you looked at your anti virus? It may be causing the issue as many people with win 8 are not having problems.
So I am thinking it is something else other than win 8 like your anti virus.

Herr Hammer Draken "The Amarr Prophet"
Harry Forever
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#27 - 2013-09-17 21:27:45 UTC
Zuran Aramingo wrote:
I hate wasting time and making new threads but the "locked" and "stickied" thread about "broken launchers" (a point in instelf that there's a sticky for broken launchers) just has like three recent pages of people saying the launcher breaks at 15% but I don't see any answers or replies from anyone who can help. My only fix is to reinstall the game completely.

I waited 3 days for a support ticket to tell me to delete a file then rerun the patcher and they'll get back to me. Of course that did nothing and I had to reinstall the game.

Tired of having to reinstall the game after every patch.

I can't be the only one crying in the corner wondering why this keeps happening...sniff.

Please help!

Tell me you too just cave and reinstall than deal with support tickets!


if it gets stuck i just close it and reopen it, then it normally works, had the problem just once

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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#28 - 2013-09-18 01:04:35 UTC
heh, I just launched the patcher on win8 and it got stuck right at 15%, OH NOES BROKEN!!!!

then I wiggled the launcher and it jumped to like 80% and is loading up fine now.

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