Logged on just a minute ago and noticed that half the NPC's in Payon are missing. Was going to check out some of the other towns but I errored out of whatever I clicked and can't log in any more. Going to try and patch to see if that fixes it.

Patching should fix the problem because if you do not patch then you will not have the new map for DRO's Capital city.

You should always play the game through DragonRO.exe

hmmmm yea.....I use duel-client.exe lol

Out-dated :P Besides DragonRO.exe will let you dual-client as well.