Spiral Knights - issues launching the game after 2026/05/11 update

issues launching the game after 2026/05/11 update

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Tue, 05/12/2026 - 14:01

Jenovasforumchar

Ever since yesterday, I can no longer login into the game. The process fails at the little update window that gets launched first before the actual game opens up.

I am playing via the standalone client from the website with my windows 10 PC.

When I double click the executeable, following happens:
- a little window with the title ,,Spiral Knights" pops up
- a bar gets stuck at 28% or 39% when saying ,,Verifizieren der Daten"
- after some time passed of this stage being stuck, it says "Timeout beim Verifizieren der Resourcen.", and I am forced to close the window since nothing happens anymore.

Note that I was playing after the ,,Forge Ahead" update just fine; and also at the day before the 2026/5/11 update.

Edit:
Just now when I launched the game another time to give proper feedback, it suddenly started normally after being unable to do so for over a day...

Well, this is strange, but I will still post this threat, since something clearly was not working properly before, for future reference.

Fri, 05/15/2026 - 17:43

Jenovasforumchar

16th May 2026

Okay, once again, the launcher gives trouble and refuses to do its job when I tried to login just now.

The launcher window says ,,Validiere Download ..." while being stuck at 22% for some time,
then it once again goes "Timeout beim Verifizieren der Resourcen." and nothing happens anymore.

Whatever has been done in that 2026/5/11-update (or potentially the Forge-Ahead-update) is messing up with updating the game when something new gets added and the game needs to be actualized.

Long story short:
Once again I can not even launch the game!

Sun, 05/17/2026 - 16:34

Osmosi

This already happened before

You'd be surprised to know that this issue is actually nothing new.
In my post here (https://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/125121) I had a very similar experience to your first one where the launcher would get stuck at a certain percentage for too long going over the time limit put on by GH and just like your first experience, by simply insisting hopelessly I eventually managed to get in.
From what I understood from the logs, this has nothing to do with us but it's entirely on grey heavens and their network settings.
I'm unsure if it's because our machines are taking a longer time than what grey heavens expected due to them simply being old, as my internet connection should be definitely fast enough (and probably yours too).
As pure copium you can try to open up the launcher from the .exe file itself and not by using shorcuts, and when the launcher fails you immediately try again like a mad man. Who knows maybe if you're fast enough the progress can kinda carry over.

Fri, 05/22/2026 - 07:35

Jenovasforumchar

I don't want to have to deal

I don't want to have to deal with this issue each single time when a new update rolls around!

So today there was another patch and today I ONCE AGAIN can not play because there is a fatal error within the update client that prevents it from updating clients properly.

And so far I had to keep restarting the client over and over again for the past half hour, because of this issue.
Since I am running out of patience, I accept the fact that I simply can not play SK today and have to retry getting into the game another day, while writing this post to update on this still ongoing unfixed issue.

Spiral Knights did not have these issues before that ,,perforcmance improvement" updates...
And obviously I am not the only one here!

Please fix the launcher already!

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 06:08

Jenovasforumchar

Dear Grey Havens

Dear Grey Havens,

Please allow me to play Spiral Knights again.

Your launcher after that Forge Ahead ,,update" sucks.

Thank you.

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 06:31

Jenovasforumchar

Please fix the updater already!

So today I had a bit of time on my hands and thought I just kept trying to get the game started while watching animes on another device, so that it wont interefere with the supposed game starting.

In detail, this means I did the following:
- Launching the Spiral Knights starter via shortcut on desktop.
- Moving the launched window slightly aside, so that another potentially started instance of the launcher would not completely overlap it.
- Already selecting the Shortcut again once (but not starting it yet)
- Watching anime until the launcher reached the point of ,,Timed out" yade yade yade
- Then I hit enter to have the next instance of the launcher started, because the first instance just became useless.
- I close the first useless and broken instance of the launcher...
- ...and start the same procedure again with step 1.

To my surprise, the launcher actually finally did its job around the middle of episode 12 of that anime I was watching.

That whole thing took a total of 49 minutes of launcher restarting whenever it timed out again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

Well, it is needless to say that I could watch multiple episodes of the duration of spam-starting the launcher like that.

It is also needless to say that THIS IS NOT A SITUATION THAT SHOULD APPLY FOR EACH SINGLE TIME WHEN THIS GAME NEEDS AN UPDATE !!!!!!

Well, for the record, I went ahead and stopped the time it took to finally get into the game.... this time.

But please Grey Havens... fix the launcher already!

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 10:29

Osmosi

Hmmm, not sure but maybe there's something with Java settings...

Just for the sake of completeness, I want to add that on my machine Java is updated to its current latest version (Version 8 Update 491 build 1.8.0_491-b10) and of course I still have this issue.
I doubt security settings have anything to do with this issue or anything really related to Java, but who knows. At this point our hope is for someone who's really smart about Java and internet protocols to play spiral knights and have our the same exact issue as we do. Maybe some java debug options may come in handy here, not sure.
I may return to this thread with the time it took to get in, but 49 minutes seems in line with the times it took me in the past.

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