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[Impossible Wasabi]

Indeed.

[G is for Gamma]

Same issue is effecting me, game magically work this morning and now is bummed again. Right after dropping money on an oxide too. Super depressing.

[Impossible Wasabi]

The Space Pope has found spamming the repair tool around four times seems to be a temporary fix.

Edited by The True Space Pope, 16 January 2015 - 12:46 PM.

[Impossible Wasabi]

Yes, sometimes the repair tool breaks the game, but if you keep running it, eventually it seems to fix it again.

Still, the tool is alarmingly bad.

[10thMD]

I have tried everything and no change. Installing a fresh copy for the second time today maybe that will fix it. Where you at PGI? This is becoming very annoying. If this doesn't work I will try spamming the repair tool.

Edited by 10thMD, 16 January 2015 - 01:28 PM.

[DivideByZer0]

****FIX****
This happened to me the other day. Go into your MWO folder, and delete the one titled "USER"

Re-installing doesn't remove ALL the game files, the corrupted one seems to be related to the "USER" folder.

Start the game.

Should work.

Edited by DivideByZer0, 16 January 2015 - 02:07 PM.

[10thMD]

Finally got it working after about 5 hours of trying.

[Daeqar]

Well, I would advise taking a close look through the link in post #4 in this thread.

After my faily reinstall attempt last night (wouldn't patch) I used the Microsoft FixIt tool shown in that link. It fixed (pick uninstall MWO through the dialog options) some registry settings or something that don't uninstall easily and then did regular uninstall to get the rest. Reboot, reinstall...worked fine and patched normally. So, last night the game worked and I applied my usual settings.

Come back to play today...get the same client needs a patch message it had before. Back to square one and can't run the game.

The only thing on the link list I hadn't tried was changing DNS server settings in my connection TCP/IP settings. So I did that, set it to OpenDNS IP addresses, flushed DNS cache, rebooted... Game worked! Changing the DNS settings is pretty easy and easy to revert.

So, now I'm playing, but I'm terrified to close the game in case it doesn't work again...

[Demon Horde]

ok I figured out a "some what of" temporary fix, If you get the patch message , uninstall the game then re install but have the launcher continually crash when it hits the patches maybe this will work for you. Uninstall the game again , re-install but don't reinstall int eh default directory, instead install it to a custom directory EX: C:/Programfiles (x86)/PGI/MechWarrioronline

The default directory is C:/Programfiles(x86)/Pirahnagames/Mechwarrioronline

Just so you are not confused, During the reinstall I simply renamed the folder that is Pirahnagames, to PGI instead. This makes the game install in a completely clean/new section of your harddrive.

so again just make a custom directory when reinstalling. It worked for me hope this helps some of you. Obviously there's still a chance your game can break again until PGI fixes the patcher or what ever is breaking the game.

Edited by Demon Horde, 16 January 2015 - 05:58 PM.

[Mike Vee]

Only thing that worked for me was changing my DNS.
I used OpenDNS. http://208.69.38.205/
Nothing else worked at all.

Edited by Mike Vee, 16 January 2015 - 06:49 PM.

[GuavaPastry]

Performing a clean install of my graphics drivers got it to work for about half a day.

Edit:

Mike Vee, on 16 January 2015 - 06:39 PM, said:

Only thing that worked for me was changing my DNS.
I used OpenDNS.  http://208.69.38.205/
Nothing else worked at all.

This worked!

Edited by GuavaPastry, 17 January 2015 - 02:50 AM.

[10thMD]

I had this error again today. This time I just deleted my user folder and restarted client. Still a pain in the ass though cause now I got to rebind all my buttons.

[Golrar]

I was getting this error on and off the last couple of days. I even went so far as to reinstall. What finally worked for me?

I turned off Avast Internet Security's Secure DNS feature. Works every time now. Other users in the Avast forum have stated similar issues with the Secure DNS since the last patch. Hopefully they come up with a fix at some time so I can turn it back on. But if your AV has DNS filtering or something similar, try disabling it and logging in.

[Alzhiemer]

this needs to be fixed

[10thMD]

Just hit me again........ Avast hasn't been running the entire time I have had my machine on...... changing dns doesn't work... Flushing and going back to auto dns doesn't work.... don't want to go over my download cap so reinstalling is out of the question, considering I did 2 times in a row yesterday. Can we get some dev responses about this issue at all????????

Edited by 10thMD, 18 January 2015 - 01:36 AM.

[Demon Horde]

seems like what ever we do the d**n bug just hits us again. PGI needs to fix this ASAP , and ask me they should extend the contest an extra day for those of us that are getting gimped time trying to bug fix
.
I also got the bug again , after reinstalling to a new location. I then ran the fixer tool twice once to get rid of the bug a third time. now I've gotten the bug a fourth time been running the repair tool most of the night trying to get it working again . I've now lost 10-12 hours of the challenge time to dealing with this god d**n bug. I would have already had my 30 points for the challenge had it not been for this bug.

Edited by Demon Horde, 18 January 2015 - 06:32 AM.

[Impossible Wasabi]

Yes, there appears to be a very high likelihood that the bug occurs again...and again.

At present the Space Pope has had the patch feedback loop bug occur three times in the last week, despite following all the provided instructions.

[Kreuger]

Mike Vee, on 16 January 2015 - 06:39 PM, said:

Only thing that worked for me was changing my DNS.
I used OpenDNS. http://208.69.38.205/
Nothing else worked at all.

This worked for me as well.

[Leonidas Rommel]

I have gone through all of those fixes listed on the first page of this forum. And each worked in their own way, and I still got a message a day later that I needed to update and there was a missing pak file. I don't think there is a single problem with the game. I seems as though there are multiple problems. I am going through my 5 repair tool this morning. Next I am going to try this delete the user thing. If that don't work, then eff it, Im getting sunday drunk.

Edit note: Now that I looked at the User folder, I dont see how this relates to the missing pak issue. No paks in that folder. Only settings for weapons group and profile stuff.....

Edited by Leonidas Rommel, 18 January 2015 - 09:40 AM.

[vortmax]

Happens every time I launch now.

Friday, I reset the DNS settings and it worked.

Yesterday, I reset the DNS settings: Nada. I run the repair tool: Farks up the game even worse to where it won't even launch to login. So I do a full reinstall.

This morning: Log on fine the first time, now back to "Please shutdown and run the patcher."

$#1='s broke, yo.