Error 201, Windows 8.1

[Tragiklove]

After researching this error on the boards, I have spent nearly two days installing and uninstalling, trying every workaround suggested, all to no avail. Is DDO simply broken on Windows 8 and above? Has Turbine ever actually stated something besides their suggestions for Windows 7?

[Daine]

Works fine for me on Win 8.1 64bit, I run on triple 27" monitors and sometimes multiple instances with an alternate account, often with work I should be doing left open in the background, skype, audio playing, etc. Basically I abuse my system, DDO is fairly tolerant in Win8.1.

Perhaps if you gave more details about your system,os and the fixes you attempted as well as any times you've ran it successfully, if the 201 error is the only error you've had, if other games run fine, if you have full administrator access to the computer you're playing on, etc. someone may be able to help you <shrugs>

[Tragiklove]

There are a handful of threads below that talk about having the same error. Various people have commented using what is often contradictory advice. Run it with Admin control, run it without, make sure nothing is clicked under comparability, make sure everything is. Do it on the administrator account. Do it on your desktop and not in the program files(86x). Do it IN the default program files(86x). Copy all backup and repatch. Lost count how many ways I tried, always from a clean install. No luck. And none of the threads below seem to have anyone successfully fixing their problem. As for your own experiences, have you always had it on your windows 8? Or is it recent? I'm curious to if one of the updates created a mistake for new downloads that has yet to be addressed. I have run the game fine on a windows 7, this was an attempt to put it on a new computer. That make sense?

[Daine]

I've been running DDO since beta, so through a lot of operating systems and different desktops and laptops for when I've been on the road. I had DDO on win7 and upgraded to Win8 when it was released, I had some trouble there as expected and ended up doing a fresh install of windows - I don't recommend you re-install windows, please don't do this!

My latest incarnation is a fresh install of DDO on a new PC under win 8.1 a bit more than a year ago. I'm the same as most, DDO is running stable, a patch/hotfix gets released, DDO starts to have problems, I remain "reasonably" calm and a new hotfix gets released a week or two later and everything works again.

Administrator access is for trusted sources, run DDO as administrator, even if you're not having that particular set of issues now, you may well later. Admin access was primarily created to stop people who didn't know about windows from deleting core operating systems files, it has progressed from that, not always for the best. On a home PC with good security you'll be fine with admin access unless you decide to go and play in the system registry.

Check your firewall for blocks, especially if it is blocking Akami. If you read through the thousands of posts on Akami, you'll eventually learn that no-one at Turbine asked us users if they could use it on our computers, it is a 'special release' and doesn't capture data like some versions can, has extremely minimal impact on resources, apple, microsoft, facebook, twitter use it, and if Turbine ever turn full evil they can use it to do bad things on your PC, which doesn't matter because they can do the same with their other software you installed, ie. DDO!

Hopefully you have a set of the downloaded files on your PC, so uninstalling and re-installing doesn't require too much in the way of actual downloading. If so try this: wipe DDO, power down your PC, boot it up again, turn off your firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, whatever you have and then install DDO. Don't do anything else on the web while wait, your system is not secure. On my win8.1 system I have a desktop shortcut to "TurbineLauncher.exe", which in my ddo folder is set to run as admin. Load it up and see how you go. If it works fine, power off your PC, boot it up again with all your security re-enabled and see how it goes.

Oh and at some time open up a command prompt window and type "ping patch.ddo.com" and jusy see how your connection is going.

Good luck!

[Tragiklove]

That was a lot of helpful information, I greatly appreciate it. I'll update if I'm able to get it working!

[Phoenix-daBard]

Error 201 in DDO is a file access issue. Running as admin can help.

Also the Happy Cloud (the play instantly button) installer can cause this. If you are using HC go to the download page and use the install then play button. It works better.

[Stoner81]

Error 201 will most likely be that you are missing the DAT files in the installation directory, it is common problem which has been going on for months and months and Turbine still have not fixed it! Click the link in my signature called Download DDO for more information and the complete set of files to install the full game.

Stoner81.

[UurlockYgmeov]

there should be an entry in FAQ and a sticky post about this.

[Tragiklove]

Error 201 will most likely be that you are missing the DAT files in the installation directory, it is common problem which has been going on for months and months and Turbine still have not fixed it! Click the link in my signature called Download DDO for more information and the complete set of files to install the full game.

Stoner81.

This fixed my issue, by the way, so a big thanks to you. All other fill-in-the-blank suggestions featuring admin access did not work for me, but this sure did. You rock, sir.