This has been happening for several days now. I'm not sure exactly how long. It began right after STO updated itself with a new patch.

I usually use the Steam version. When I launch the game, the launcher works fine. The loading bar on the Cryptic screen inches forward a bit, then it crashes. An "Oops! Your Cryptic Application has crashed" error pops up, with a box to add details.

This happens every time I load up the game. I've tried reinstalling the game, verifying the game cache in Steam, the launcher's safe mode, re-verifying the game countless times, trying the Tribble shard, patching via both the US and EU proxies, installing the non-Steam version, re-verifying and re-installing it countless times, loading up STO through Champions Online with the "Show all games" function in the launcher's options, nothing ever worked.

I was beginning to suspect my modem (which was rather old, and not very good) was to blame. So I swapped my old modem with a new one at a Time Warner store. Nothing changed. Oddly enough, I think I got it working briefly when I first installed the non-Steam version. What is going on here? Do I have a virus on my computer that just hates Cryptic MMOs set in the 25th century? Is my account messed up somehow? Is having a copy of my character on Tribble affecting anything?

Here's my computer's information, copied from a DxDiag (I doubt any of it is needed, because the game would run great, if only I could get to the character select screen. Nevertheless, here.):
That's probably more info than you'll need, but it doesn't hurt to be thorough.

If at all possible, I'd like a fix before the 3rd Anniversary event ends. Thanks in advance.

I am having the same problem, so it is not your system.

You pretty much nailed it in the bolded sentence. Replacing your modem wouldn't have made a difference, as it's not anything your modem would affect (network issue, etc.)

There's been....a bit of history between STO and Steam, and it's not been very glowing. I'd try running STO outside of Steam and see if that works any.

By "working briefly", can you elaborate? Did you get it to work without issue or did the issue take longer to manifest itself?

Added note: It may be easier to post dxdiag logs through a hosting site like pastebin. They're walls of text otherwise that only a dedicated techie would be able to make heads or tails of.

By "I think I got it working briefly when I first installed the non-Steam version" I mean that it worked briefly, but then it would crash every time, just like Steam STO. However, I may have been running the Steam version without realizing it out of force of habit. I'll try again.

Thanks for telling me about pastebin. I'll keep it in mind next time I encounter a problem like this.

Are you using teamviewer? If so, try disabling it.

Try updating and/or downgrading your Internet Explorer installation as the launcher seems to use IE in some capacity. You might also check to see if the internet options menu inside IE (before uninstalling it) is set on using a proxy server for the lan option, and uncheck that (internet options>connections>lan settings.

Am I reading that dxdiag right - your graphics driver is running a version from "10/26/2011" - is AMD that slow on updates?

Have you installed or updated any firewall/virus-spyware scanning software recently?

Since your trying everything and coming up short, I'd also suggest you delete one of the smaller files located in the ...Star Trek Online\Live\piggs folder in your installation. I've had this help me in the past as it seemed to force the launcher to jumpstart a download to replace that file and then check for what else needs updating. (Although I would personally just rename one and not delete it).

Have you tried installing it to a new drive if possible?

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That appears to be a rather old set of video card drivers. have you considering upgrading to a newer version?

I uninstalled Steam STO, installed non-Steam STO, and I got the same error.

I uninstalled TeamViewer a while ago, since I never used it.

Internet Explorer wasn't set to use a proxy before, and still isn't.

Upon trying to update them, Windows says my graphics drivers are up-to-date.

I set my firewall so it wouldn't mess with Star Trek Online.exe.

My virus software is up-to-date.

I deleted these HOGG files, all 65 KB each: bins2, bins3, character, dynamic, object.

Okay, let's try it again. Wish me luck...

It still doesn't work. Would a list of the processes I have running help?

This is going to maybe sound wierd; but can you completely disable your audio chipset; and see if STO still crashes when it attempts to run? (Just trying to see if there's a possible issue there.)

I disabled everything under Sound in the Device Manager. I don't know if that's what you meant or not, but it didn't change anything.