So to recap two solutions to 1.5 launchers being totally broken on Windows, maybe/not specific to Win7-64:
Problem: 1.9 launcher gets to 15% patch built, then starts again, over and over.
Possible CAUSE: Antispyware / firewall / antimalware / antivirus software is not allowing updates.
SOLUTION: For ESET 5:
- Go to Advanced Settings, Web and email, Protocol Filtering, Excluded Applications.
- If you've been trying like mad to fix it before now, then launcher.exe, eve.exe, and exefile.exe may already be in this list. Just check the boxes and hit OK.
- If those 3 exes aren't in the list: Click Add button and add each, one at a time. For launcher it needs launcher.exe in the (eve)\launcher folder, not the shortcut or anything you may have downloaded from a forum link and moved to your eve folder. Ah, good times.
- Presuming you're at 1.9 you can now run the launcher and patch. If your launcher gets updated at this point, you may have to repeat the above steps before getting the launcher to say Play.
If you don't have ESET 5, you may have a similar option in your security software, boiling down to "let this app act like there aren't ***** living on my disk. Give it security douche immunity. This vampire is invited." Or you can take the bad, dumb, and easy risk of temporarily disabling security to just get it over with.
Next one:
Problem: Walked away like a rational person after seeing smoke on the 1.5 horizon.
Your probable situation is a mix of these problem/solutions:
- all client settings may be gone (you need to find your pre-1.5 %appdata% bla bla eve_folder_tranquility folder; copy everything from its settings subfolder into your newer blabla_tranquility\derp\settings folder.)
- launcher.exe, launcher shortcut, and repair are all acting stupid, throwing logs about missing extensions, broken shortcut, and/or pretending CCP is dumb enough to compile without 64 bit support. (you should run (eve)\bin\exefile.exe and hope for the best, it should work now, though you might have to come back for the other problem/solution above)
- stuff I didn't run into (sorry, good luck)