I burned a DVD of my entire gravity folder and copied it to my laptop, when I run dRO I get "failed to get patchlist" and it wont run

Mine just flat out says "Failed to find patchlist" on both my desktop which runs XP and my laptop with vista.

It's possible that the computer has internet access blocked from other applications. A firewall or a proxy issue maybe. This patchlist is just a txt file hosted on the DragonRO server, which tells the patcher what to download. If it can't find it, that means that program isn't getting internet access.

well I solved the issue with a workaround, its a bad long term solution, but its all I can do currently. i just ran droexe.exe to skip the patcher. then it signed me in and I could play no problem. so I am getting both internet and dRO.

It's just a temporary workaround. The next time there's a new patch, it won't show up and you might crash.

The exe may work, and you may be able to connect through a browser, but maybe the dRO patcher doesn't have permissions to Internet, or no permissions to download files to your computer?

ok it recently became a problem, i have no firewall to block it. (etrust went up to $50 from $10? i think not.) and I made a DVD from my desktop which works fine and loaded it right onto the lappy. so its not an install issue. but still I cant get a patch list. any suggestions? can patches be manually downloaded?

If you really need it, speak to me on msn about manually downloading the patches. It won't be quick though.

That patchlist error can be one of two things:
- the hosting server is down
- there's a problem with how your computer is connecting to the internet / allowing programs to connect to the internet.

Since the hosting server is never down and is quite definitely up at this point in time, the problem must be the second one.