My little boy has been playing the game for a few weeks with no issues on my laptop (ASUS Core i7 2.4 Ghz dual core, 8GB ram, NVidia GeForce 610M w/ 2 GB dedicated vram, running on Windows 8 64bit). When we downloaded that last build as instructed, we started seeing an error message box stating that we were using an old launcher. So, I followed the instructions and got the same results.
I found that if I just cancelled the box and pressed the Start button on the main blurb screen, it would go to the Connection Setup screen with no issues. When I pressed OK from there, then the game crashed. I started tinkering a bit, validating that all my drivers and versions were up to date for Java and the like - found all to be good.
Then I went through the process again, got the same messages, but I set \"Enable Sound\" to OFF, and now the game works fine for the most part (excepting some of the \"less than desirable features\" that are part and parcel of any alpha product).
So, any suggestions on getting rid of that message?
Bestest!
Bobo