For some reason, every Perfect World / Cryptic game I've tried playing for the last week immediately causes a BSOD the moment I try to patch it via the launcher. Why every game? Champions: BSOD. STO: BSOD. It does it before it can even load up the patch. 0% patch and it crashes my whole system the second I get past typing in my username and asking it to patch. Is there a way to manually patch or some kind of workaround?

Could be a problem with the network connection initializing... What does your 'Net Test' and 'Trace Route' results look like? Both diagnostics are described in this thread... http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/sh...d.php?t=225155

(And No... The Launcher is the only way to connect to the patch server. And even if you copied the latest up to date files from another computer, the Launcher would still need to verify that you have the current version...)