@Jo3C4ndy said in Failed to check for updates: Access to path ... is denied: i tried it all and what fixed it in the end was changing the game file location a few times and then putting it back in the right place and that did it. thank you for the reply how did u do that?

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Restart your PC.

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@ovoiS Haven't been able to be at my main machine (which is the one with this error) for a while, so I haven't been able to do any further troubleshooting. The launcher works perfectly for me on a completely clean Windows 10 installation using Bootcamp on a Mac, although I was also on a different network to my main machine. To me, the error seems network-related but since even a VPN didn't help me, idk what else I would even try. Tethering from mobile, maybe? Of course, it might also not be network-related. When I can next get to my main machine, I'm just going to try and copy my installation over from my Mac since I've got a working setup here. Maybe you could do the same for your friend – just supply them the files they're missing, if that's possible. Or maybe they could spin up a VM and see if it works in there, and then copy over the installation to their proper Win10 install. It would be nice to have a way of installing Plutonium manually that bypasses the launcher, for users who know what they're doing or in case the launcher doesn't work (but I understand that it's much easier to do everything with the launcher)