Update 5...Seems to have broken the launcher (again)

[Vengeance777]

I downloaded the standard definition installer. Uninstalled the game and deleted every ddo/turbine file I could find after the uninstall. Reinstalled the game and it connected, updated and now I'm back in the game.

[Adimonicous]

I downloaded the standard definition installer. Uninstalled the game and deleted every ddo/turbine file I could find after the uninstall. Reinstalled the game and it connected, updated and now I'm back in the game.

Good to hear that worked for you. I'm reinstalling the game as I'm typing this. Almost done...

[AegonTargaryen]

You know, there are alot of threads in here that ALL seem to involve the same issue, not being able to login due to the autopatch failing. I vote for a sticky, and a **** fast resolution, before my credit card spontaneously 'expires'.....

[Cerissa]

I had gotten the launcher to work the night before the update. Now, it locks into an endless loop of "error32" messages, until I get mad and do the 3finger salute to terminate the launcher process. I have tried the "fixes" posted to no avail. Even the running of the gdf file Turbine suggests does not report success (either through running the file, or attempting a manual fix).

When you have to go through this kind of hassle to try to evaluate a game to see if you would like to pay to get all the bits and pieces, one must ask if it is worth the effort.

If someone knows of a way to solve this issue, pls advise. I have a Win XP Pro system, with plenty of RAM, Vid Card memory, and processing speed. If there is not a workaround that will continue to work, I'm afraid I won't be playing DDO. I do have both AC and Lotro on the same computer, removing them is not an option. Hopefully someone here can help

[Straymind]

I was having a problem launching the dndlauncher.exe as well. Rebooted, seems to be working fine now, validated all data and is letting me log in.

[Tahlyn]

How many years, and Turbine still can't make an update without breaking the game.

All these folks posting problems and where is the customer service response?

ANY other software with this track record would be dead. Turbine you're sooo lucky gamers are junkies.

[Cerissa]

Well, so far I've tried ...

... uninstalling and reinstalling DDO .... fail
... uninstalling and reinstalling the necessary .net framework and applicable patches to same ... fail
... doing the "instructions" regarding the GDF file ... fail
... doing the GDF file manually ... fail

So far as you can see, nothing has worked. Now there must be something somewhere that addresses this issue, and how to go about fixing it. I'm pretty sure others are playing Lotro AND DDO. Oh and by the way? There IS no TurbineInvoker process running when the launcher is trying to patch itself - whoever thought that one up (on Turbine's instructions) must have been pulling ideas out of dark places.

Isn't anyone here knowledgeable about a launcher that is NOT patching dndlauncher because it is supposedly in use by another process? And said launcher locked into an endless loop of restarting, trying to update, providing "error 32" message, and repeating over and over? My desire to see what this game is all about is rapidly fading ...

[ProximateTen]

Just wanna put my 2cents worth in.. I have both the downloaded DDO client and a Retail version of LOTRO and BOTH will not start... it just dies during the data patch phase on the first file.

Now I'm new to this game so am finding this very frustrating. I've never installed a game that doesn't work out of the box before and all the fixes Turbine have suggested do not work. It does sound like this latest patch has caused a lot of issues.

[Dude69]

Not sure if this is the same prob but... click the .exe launcher opens and getts stuck on creating/validating with 0kbs of 0kbs. I have done the pause thing to no avail. plz help