I've Allowed the TrueUpdate client through the firewall, and tried turning off my antivirus, but it still gets stuck trying to create a handle.

I downloaded it 24 hours ago and updated it literally fifteen minutes ago.

Now it's back to saying that I need to update through the launcher; then an error message that the update could not be downloaded.

So I've purchased the base game and US Pacific. Single player is fine but when I tried to connect to multiplayer it told me that I needed to update the game through the launcher. When I did this, it says it failed to connect to the server and to try again later or contact Slitherine. After advice fr...