Wrong hash issue

I tryed to start PoE this evening and ran into some trouble.
At first the client just crashed upon launch two times, I have never experienced this before.
After that I got some wrong hash error message a couple of times so I ran the PackCheck in the game folder and it found some hashes out of sync and repaired them. This did not help so I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it on another harddrive. During the patching I got severeal wrong hash error prompts which I closed and restarted the patching. Each time I restarted the patching the size left to patch got smaller so I assumed it was getting there in some way. Now I'm stuck with 355,94kb left to patch according to the patcher, but it always goes to 1000% and then gives me a wrong hash error, I'm getting 2 different messages atm and I'll attach screenshots of them here.




I really hope someone can find me a solution for this problem!
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/429832/page/1#p3795868

We tried downloading via VPN, but that didn't fix the problem, go to that thread and try the other suggestion.
Solved this by reinstalling + repatching via VPN.
Its awful for RELEASE version to have such issues.


What the fuck, download again 6-8 gb of game, from other computer ( which i dont have) ?


And its 1.0 version, after months of beta test?


AWFUL
You have forgotten your place, Karui slaaave!
It seems every time I patch I get the Wrong Hash error. It gives me this error on seemingly random filenames. When I run packcheck it seems like every file is out of sync and has to be repaired. When I then run the client again it finds another hash error.

I have fixed this in the past by copying a content archive from an old installation into my current install and then running the client which will allow me to update. I am currently trying this to resolve my current issue but my hopes aren't high. Its worth noting that I have previously uninstalled and reinstalled....and received hash errors on the first patch with a fresh install.

My question is what could possibly be causing this? I have checked extensively and can confirm that I am not dropping packets. Why is the hash errors so common and seemingly random? Why would a fresh install have bad hashes? Why would packcheck think the ENTIRE archive is out of sync? I played last night and had zero problems so the archive must be good....

An official word on this would be nice. Thanks.

Everyone's ISP CANT be mucking these binaries this bad. If they are, something is wrong with the hashing algorithm. VPN download and patching should not be required for someone to use a new product. No other game or client-server based applications that I have require this. Please give us some insight as this is obviously a problem.
Last edited by Kateshi#7762 on Oct 23, 2013, 3:40:58 PM

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