Works fine for me i'm downloading them atm fine, but with my connection speed i'm looking at 10+ hours download time so i'd rather not have to resort to that.

Managed to install the offline client no problems here, tried to run it and the launcher was stuck on validating again, running the repair tool still gives me an error.

Intresting... a launcher update... well client is validating atleast :D Nice work ^^ i hope xD

Not sure if this is the same problem you guys are having but every time I try to run the launcher it crashes, with the following error,

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:APPCRASH
Application Name:launcher.exe_unknown
Application Version:0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp:49180193
Fault Module Name:StackHash_0a9e
Fault Module Version:0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp:00000000
Exception Code:c0000005
Exception Offset:01dfdf5f
OS Version:6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:4105
Additional Information 1:0a9e
Additional Information 2:0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3:0a9e
Additional Information 4:0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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Then when I try using the exe file it keeps saying to download the patch goes thru the install but its like it did nothing and its just a never ending loop of needing to install the patch, trying to manualy download and istall the patch now

Updated a desktop client a few hours ago without issue. However, when I run the launcher on my laptop, it hangs at 0.0% validation. Both computers are on the same network.

Did restart the launcher and the update failed, and got this:

http://pastebin.com/586FrHi7

Happy reading!

Updated a desktop client a few hours ago without issue. However, when I run the launcher on my laptop, it hangs at 0.0% validation. Both computers are on the same network.

Interesting! What are the differences between those machines in terms of operating system and cpu?

Interesting! What are the differences between those machines in terms of operating system and cpu?

point is, afaik validation should start and say its not same version and start patching , for some reason it doesn't start validation, so im guessing its the launchers fault, still going to wait

I have no idea of the process of validation, so:
1) Validation does its thing then checks check sum on server = fault with launcher since it doesn't start validating.
2) Validation ask server for check sum before checking my client = fault with network, OS or same as above.

When doing repair we get error: unpack requires a string argument of length 4 , which meant that we are missing argument somewhere, shooting in the blank over here at this point, but could it be that the problem is related to Win 32 or Win 64 OS since the argument could be wrong length due to system architecture.

Those are my 2 cents at this point, since I've so far tried everything from manually clearing caches, starting and restarting most of the .exe files and from what I've gathered from the logs.

EDIT: Laptop here as well, even though I don't see why that would play any role, seems like an interesting coincidence, since few more people reported this issue and are using laptops.

Well, the launcher has a checksum db of it's installation. Where it's failing is when it's trying to get the checksum db to compare against from the server. So either the connection is bad (which is possible and the whole reason why checksums are being verified multiple times in the process), or you are hitting a server that has a bad payload (just as likely as the bad connection). :-)

Interesting @ Spybot. Can everyone please check if they are using that software and see if temporarily disabling it helps to resolve this issue?