I'm able to log in now using the .exe

the client opens (showing 0 players active the whole time) and promts 'client must be restarted...' which closes it.

Latest attempt within the last hour. clean install of win7 in virtualbox with default settings (1gb ram), fresh download of setup file. Client installs, when opened for the first time prompts 'client software must be upgraded', press ok, client begins to install. Goes like this; 'preparing to install...' requests admin access (press ok), 'please wait windows configures...' and it quickly disappears before the bar fills, when i attempt to run the client this process repeats.

Second attempt using the same install of win7 with the ram turned to maximum possible (1954mb) and network adapter setting changed to 'bridged adapter' as per nomnomnom's suggestion; uninstalled client in control panel, reinstalled using the same setup file. results were identical.

I hope that helps a little bit.

The devs are monitoring this thread so including your OS will help them. I'm in the same situation (virtualbox win7). The support team got back to me today and acknowledged the problem with vm's so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

thanks pal i appreciate your effort but unfortunately this doesnt help me at all. the client says im online in the bottom left corner but keeps telling me it needs to update and to restart again and again. i cant open it when the internet is disconnected ('communication error' or something) and if i try to trick it by disconnecting while it loads, as soon as i reconnect the internet im prompted again to close the client because it needs to update.

has anyone else had any success with virtualbox? swc support aren't responding to me.

Thanks for responding.

Connecting/Reconnecting doesn't seem to help me in vista or win7. What windows version are you using? Do you remember exactly how you did it?

Has anyone had any success installing the new client in virtual box? If so please give some details.

I've tried a couple of different clean installs of vista and win7 still getting the 'client needs to restart' prompt endlessly, i've reinstalled it countless times.