[ERROR] Failed to connect to server

[pranavrules]

Greetings all,

Ever since the host provider went kaput on July 5th I've not been able to connect.

I can ping game.originsro.org just fine, but cannot connect from in-game. The launcher works fine, but says OriginRO is N/A. I've attached the error report generated by the launcher if that helps.

Thanks!

[pranavrules]

Also, is there a lite client for OriginsRO that I can download? I think the error report's saying OriginsroPatcher.exe is missing? I don't want to download the 2.1 Gig file again just for that one exe.

[Mathy]

Also, is there a lite client for OriginsRO that I can download? I think the error report's saying OriginsroPatcher.exe is missing? I don't want to download the 2.1 Gig file again just for that one exe.

None.

Check if the file is missing. If it is indeed missing, your antivirus might have blown it up.

Just keep the zip around if you don't want to redownload the entire thing.

[pranavrules]

Also, is there a lite client for OriginsRO that I can download? I think the error report's saying OriginsroPatcher.exe is missing? I don't want to download the 2.1 Gig file again just for that one exe.

None.

Check if the file is missing. If it is indeed missing, your antivirus might have blown it up.

Just keep the zip around if you don't want to redownload the entire thing.

I don't have that great of a connection to download the file. The first time took around 6-7 hours since I was getting 100-200 Kbps max download speeds. Can you please at least upload it to a mirror? Your provider is capping the down pipe seems like.

Is there no way to generate a lite client (without the remaining kRO files)?

At least a mirror for the file please.

Thank you!

[Mathy]

Also, is there a lite client for OriginsRO that I can download? I think the error report's saying OriginsroPatcher.exe is missing? I don't want to download the 2.1 Gig file again just for that one exe.

None.

Check if the file is missing. If it is indeed missing, your antivirus might have blown it up.

Just keep the zip around if you don't want to redownload the entire thing.

I don't have that great of a connection to download the file. The first time took around 6-7 hours since I was getting 100-200 Kbps max download speeds. Can you please at least upload it to a mirror? Your provider is capping the down pipe seems like.

Is there no way to generate a lite client (without the remaining kRO files)?

At least a mirror for the file please.

Thank you!

You can download the multi-part. I think it's 5 parts. Those are provided by a CDN. They will be much faster.

[pranavrules]

Alright, I got the download complete and you were right about the AV blitzing the file. The default Windows 10 defender keeps marking the launcher as a false-positive and keeps deleting it. Is there any way around this? I can't get to add it to the exclusions list. What is that file doing exactly? Can't I play without it? I don't want to tweak my security rules just to play a game. The machine also belongs to an AD so I don't have higher privileges to rip out defender completely.

Any suggestions would be really grateful.

I just want to play some RO. Not sure what happened since July 5th, it was working just fine before that.

[pranavrules]

Oh my god, did the host IP address change in your last patch? I wonder if I just update the GRF outside my computer via your patcher and copy it back into my machine, I think that should fix it. That's probably why I couldn't connect.

Just a quick suggestion;
I never knew till this moment that you have a SEPARATE patcher and SEPARATE launcher. Why? No wonder I've been scratching my head for so long. I didn't have the updated GRF and since the patcher was nuked on July 5th for a false positive for w/e reason, I haven't been able to UPDATE the damn game. And here I'm thinking it's your host that's bad.

[Mathy]

Hmmmm because a patcher and a launcher are separate things o.o

A launcher is meant to manage the game settings, verify state of the files, and launch the programs.
A client and a patcher are specialized programs that do what is advertised. If the launcher can't find the patcher, it will tell you, which is the "OriginsRO N/A" you were seeing.

[pranavrules]

Alright, after several attempts at this, I'm hitting a wall.

I tried spinning up a VM to test my theory out. The patcher works beautifully in Windows 7 sandboxed within a VM without any antivirus running. But the moment I copy the data over to my Windows 10 host machine (w/ Defender running), it craps out and the file's deleted; which shouldn't matter because the game should be patched already, right? WRONG. It just doesn't like the fact that the patcher is missing for some reason.

I checked Thor patcher's Git and no one seems to have to tracked this as an issue. A few Google searches show that Thor patcher keeps getting flagged as false positives no matter what you do. I'm pretty sure this is just the beginning and I'm using specific revisions of Windows so I have a feeling once people are updated to that version, they will start getting the same error leaving a lot players unable to login.

Is there ANY way I can sidestep having to run the exe (oriro.exe) from the patcher?

[pranavrules]

GOD DAMN SUCCESS BOIS

Only took 7 days to figure out.

1) Spin up Win 7 x64 Sandboxed VM - WITHOUT ANY SECURITY TOOLS (NO ANTIVIRUS, NO ANTIMALWARE, NO ESSENTIAL SECURITY)
2) Download oRO inside VM
3) Extract, update/run patcher
4) Copy contents of the folder into main Windows 10 base OS
5) Defender will delete patcher, which doesn't matter; just use the launcher instead
6) ???
7) Profit.

Proof: