i dont no if this will work but try unchecking the automatic update

nope. i guess i should have mentioned i already tried messing with all those settings, nothing changed. actually i dont seem to be able to save those settings anyway since the only way to exit is to x out. if i click cancel or confirm it just gives me an error message telling me i must select a server. thanks anyway though.
in any case i dont see how that would effect whether or not the servers are detected.

If you're using Windows Vista, try running the patcher as administrator.

are you running it with non-microsoft firewall software? if you do don't forget to allow launcher, pather, pwprotector and elementclient.

where is pwprotector at? i couldnt find it. also i am using eset nod32 antivirus and am beginning to think that might have something to do with it. ive tried deactivating it and even closing it and all its background processes, but still no go. i think ill try uninstalling it all together tomorrow and see if that works. i just figured out yesterday that avast was what was causing punkbuster to have connection issues on one of my other machines. and the only thing that fixed it was fully uninstalling it. this might be a similar issue.

well i can safely say its not the anti-virus. upon close inspection of my browsers download history i realized the game was downloaded a day after the new antivirus. and it worked fine for a couple weeks. so i'm completely out of ideas because i did absolutely nothing to that computer between the time it was working fine and when it stopped. all that changed in that time was the 182 patch release, and if that were the cause i would think a lot more people would have this problem, wouldn't they? i don't know what else it could be. any help here would be very much appreciated.

man i wish these forums were useful. there not like most places where if i have a problem and post about it, i usually get plenty of feedback. am i really the only one who has this problem? the only thing that changed when this started was that the 182 patch came out. before that it was working fine.

hey amadeusrox, did u get yours fixed? or did u just give up like im about to do? if your still around your input would be appreciated.

btw i found pwprotector, it didnt help any though.

: Assuming u downloaded client from PW Site


Step 1

Start>Control panel >Add or remove program

Select Perfect World International --->Click Uninstall


Step 2

Reboot the PC[turn off pc then turn on ]

Step 3

Install the Game to any location [eg D:\Games\Perfect World]

Step 3

When installing it ask whether u want to verity the Setup

Click Yes

Step 4

After install it again ask do u want 2 verity the installed program

Note: Verifing takes time [5-10minutes]

Step 5:

Download the Patches Manuely ie

Pathc from version : 166 to latest

Links

thanks for all the replies everyone. and sorry about my rant yesterday. i know its a huge forum so its easy to see how a thread could get lost. i just have a hard time believing im the only one with this problem. anyway i haven't given up yet.

heres whats got me stumped, you see, i have 2 computers on my network that are used for this game. one is vista home premium 64bit and one is xp pro 32bit. both have the exact same antivirus and spyware blocker and both are hooked up through the same router. i built both machines myself and they both have mostly the same hardware setup as well(the main difference being the xp one has a dual core).

everything works perfectly on the vista computer. when i open patcher (i dont even use run as administrator), it shows it verifying the version and whatnot and then it shows the current version above the bars and below it says "client out of date" "preparing to update" and then the update settings window pops up with the option of patch_1 or patch_2 to choose from. none of that happens on xp. it doesnt say anything around the bars and the update settings window pops up immediately with no options in the server dropdown list.

the other thing that bothers me is the fact that everything was working perfectly fine for the first couple of weeks after it was installed. i even used the patcher's update feature to update when i first installed it. i didnt change anything on the computer during the week that it stopped working. the only thing that changed was that the 182 patch came out. which updated fine on my vista pc. but i just cant figure how the patch would cause this. especially since I've been installing 166 everytime i tried reinstalling it. also as mentioned previously when i try to use the manual patch it downloads ok as far as i can tell, but when i run it, i just get a small window thats titled "error" and has an ok button in it but no message.

if anyone has any idea of something i could try or check or something i may have missed that could help please post
@ Archies
yes ive done all that. infact ive even redownloaded everything just to be sure each time i tried reinstalling(i have a good connection). still no luck. thnx anyway though.

I followed these instructions exactly but when i try to install ec_patch_166-188.cup it says
update server patch failed please try other update server.. i dont understand its a manual update!!

the game hangs on the file called consume_reward.cfg when i auto update