same here w/ windows 7. help!

all for it. PS this happened after CRYPTIC did "mantanince" on sto

I'm still out. The download and install resulted in more ever-depressing epic fail. I see that there was even a maintenance period that solved nothing. Awesome.

hello all

this was the error i was getting

http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/a...5/STOerror.png

I play Flight sim alot, and several of my addons- as well as flight sim itself requier running as Administartor to work. STo never requiered this. but i tried it anyway. And i can now log on.

Right click the .exe and run it as Admin if your useing Windows Vista/7. not shure if its 32 or 64bit specific.

you may also try Right clicking on the exe (or desktop short cut) select properties. on the compatibilty tab check the box titled Run this programe as administrator. Then click apply.

note if the account your useing is not the Admin acount on your PC. you will need the Admin accounts password.

this worked for me. and i hope it helps yall. if not, all i can say is keep pestering the tech guys

Nope, nothin. Thanks for the try though.

Reboot! Yeaaaahhhhhh!!!! WoOOOOoo!! We're on the right track now fellas. Sage advice commin' out the pipeline now.

anybody that manages to get in please post your launcher publicly so the rest of us may benefit. Thank you thank you thank you very very much in advance.

Have we tried a new launcher file that the update has already been performed on? If someone could hook us up with one of those, that would be awesome.

I have done more research on this and there may indeed be an IP ban. If you do a traceroute (tracert) to the patchserver.crypticstudios.com and you find "cogentco" in the list it seems they may be blocking people. it at least is a common point for those of us not getting in for no reason. The suggestion is to send a support request with your ISP name and a copy of the traceroute to the support people at cryptic so they can fix this.