I am a returning player who just bought the Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition off Amazon. Everything installed without any issues but PlayOnline is a mess. It works fine on start up but as soon as I click on the next button to begin updating it immediately becomes slow and unresponsive. Any kind of command takes a good minute or two to register with the program.

When I can actually get it to start updating, downloads are VERY slow. 3-4 hours just to check ~500 files and 10+ hours to download which always results in a POL-1160 connection error.

I have been trying to get this to work for the past 3 days with the same issues every time. I have tried running POL in compatibility mode and as an administrator. Tried both the version that came with the Seekers Edition and the vista/win7 compatible version from SE website. I have retried over and over again after a complete uninstall and made sure no antivirus or other background programs were running. My graphics card drivers are up to date and I've experienced no connection issues with other games. I'm out of ideas.


Windows 8.1 64-bit
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Intel i5-4670 @3.40GHz
EarthLink Cable Internet