Patcher error

When i tried to start PoE the patcher wanted to dl a file that was about 6.62mb, i think it was Client.exe
It dled it but stopped at 100% and did nothing, i let it sit there for about 10 minutes

When it was still stuck i decided to just close it and restart it
When i restarted the patcher it bugged out trying to dl that file saying that my dl speed was 3gb/s or 20kb/s it was just wildly saying random numbers

Eventually it stopped and an error popped up saying that it couldnt write a file to the disc and that it failed to download "http://patch13.pathofexile.com:8095/patch/Client.exe"
I cant remember the exact wording of the error

First i tried to dl the file manually by going to the link
But since that doesnt work i tried to remove the Client.exe file that was in my PoE folder in the hopes that it would download it properly

So i started the patcher up again and instead of dling Client.exe it decided to download the whole game, all 3gb
I let it because i figured there was probably no other way to fix it
The space on my harddrive didnt change so it just over wrote all the files that were already there

That did fix it but i thought i should report it since having to dl the whole thing again, even when only 1 6mb file is missin, isnt ideal

I have no idea what caused it to think it needed to dl Client.exe again, i didnt change anything in the PoE folder, its just been a few days since i played it last
I did delete about 130gb of stuff from my harddrive, but i knew what all of it was and none of it was PoE related

And sorry for the length, i couldnt think of a way to report this with details without just saying what happened

I didnt touch the Grinding Gear Games folder when i was deleting stuff, so i couldnt have deleted the ggpk file

I figured out why it redownloaded the whole game after i removed Client.exe
It was because i didnt actually remove Client.exe, i just moved it from the GGG folder to the desktop
It downloaded another content.ggpk file to the desktop, as well as the rest of the game's files
I mustve been wrong about the space not changing

I moved Client.exe back to the GGG folder
It works from there now, with the older content.ggpk
I deleted the newer one from the desktop


So basically, to recap what happened

The patcher wanted to dl Client.exe from some unknown reason but failed to
I moved Client.exe from the GGG folder to the desktop in the hopes it would redownload Client.exe back to the GGG folder
Instead it downloaded content.ggpk (and the rest of the files the game needs) to the same folder as Client.exe (in this case, the desktop) and started using that to run the game
I moved Client.exe back into the GGG folder so that it used the old game files (the same files it used back when it wanted to dl Client.exe for some unknown reason but couldnt)
I deleted all the newer files that Client.exe downloaded to the desktop


Moving Client.exe from the GGG folder to the desktop and back again is what seems to have fixed the original problem of it needing Client.exe but being unable to get it

It happened again, this time while updating to 0.9.7
I havent changed anything in the PoE folder since i fixed it the last time



Hitting OK to the error closes the patcher
Reopening it will start downloading more of the patch, but it stops again after awhile with the same error:



Ive tried to fix it by making sure its not read only and by moving it around, but it still wont work, it seems i may have to dl the whole game again

EDIT:
I fixed it without having to re-dl the whole game
I kept running the patcher until i had all of 0.9.7 except for Client.exe
First i tried renaming Client.tmp to Client.exe and running the game with that, but that failed
Using that version of Client.exe the patcher failed to dl a 6.40mb file (rather then a 6.62mb file)

In order to fix it I DLed the installer with the download now button on the site, ran that to get the Client.exe file from there
Copied that client.exe file to my PoE folder and ran the game through that and it works

The game will run with Client.exe(6.40mb)
But will not run with Client.exe(6.62mb) because of the error in the screenshot

EDIT 2:
Patch 0.9.7b broke it again, same error
Downloading the installer again and installing PoE to get Client.exe fixed it again
Im going to have to do this with every patch it seems

My ISP is Verizon, i have FIOS

But when i renamed Client.tmp(6.62mb) to Client.exe and used that it tried to dl a different Client.exe (one that was 6.4mb, which i think is the newest one) and failed to get that
Client.exe(6.62mb) tries to dl a 6.62mb file and fails
Client.tmp(6.62mb), exactly the same size as Client.exe) when renamed to Client.exe tries to dl a 6.4mb file and fails

If it was a transparent proxy it wouldnt change based on which Client.exe im using
Also this started before there was a patch (as described in my first post) back when there was no newer Client.exe than the one i had
So a stale transparent proxy would have served the Client.exe i had and the one it thought it needed back then

I downloaded it and sent it to you

I tried patching the game without the Client.exe you posted here to see if it would work and it doesnt, same error but instead of "http://patch13.pathofexile.com:8095/patch/Client.exe" its "http://patch4.pathofexile.com:8095/patch/0.9.7.3/Client.exe"

Old Client.exe's wont patch
I tried the Client.exe i had from 0.9.6h just to check and it doesnt work either
The one from the link you posted here does since it's the current version


I think i figured out what is causing it
Client.tmp was the problem, for some reason it was read-only
To re-produce this error take an old Client.exe, put it in the PoE folder, copy it and rename the copy to Client.tmp
Make Client.tmp read-only
Run Client.exe and the patcher should give you the error i was getting

I dont know why my Client.tmp was read-only, i didnt touch it
I did close the patcher before the patching process was complete, back before that error, but it didnt give any errors when i re-started, it wasnt until like 3 or 4 days later after not playing it for those 3 or 4 days

But its fixed now that ive removed Client.tmp and it seems there is no new Client.tmp so it isnt becoming read-only again
Sorry i cant give more detail on how Client.tmp ended up as read-only

I run avast for anti-virus and comodo for firewall

I was afk while the patcher was running back before the error happened, when i closed it before it finished
Its possible avast did something and i just didnt see it, but it seems unlikely to me

Before this error happened i closed it because it froze while patching to 0.9.6h, it was at 100% but was just sitting there, after a few minutes i closed it and started it up again, once it started it worked fine
I stopped playing for a few days and came back to it, when i started it up it wanted to dl Client.exe, it got stuck at 100% again so i closed it after giving it a few minutes
This time when i restarted it though it gave me the error

So at some point during that time Client.tmp became read-only

My best guess is that it happened the first time it got stuck at 100%
It got stuck because it was trying to delete Clinet.tmp and couldnt but Client.exe was the current one so it didnt give any errors after i closed it and restarted, and it didnt care that Client.tmp still existed because Client.exe was the correct version

That doesnt explain why it wanted to dl Client.exe a few days later though
Unless there was a mini patch to it that wasnt announced
Or if it detects the existence of Client.tmp after a certain amount of time has passed