# EVE Launcher tries to download updates AFTER clients have started launching, blocking additional clients from launching **URL:** \ **Category:** EVE Launcher\ **Created:** [November 23, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-launcher-tries-to-download-updates-after-clients-have-started-launching-blocking-additional-clients-from-launching/469033 "2024-11-23T11:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-launcher-tries-to-download-updates-after-clients-have-started-launching-blocking-additional-clients-from-launching/469033/7 "2025-01-04T14:02:34Z")
A related issue was discussed in this thread: > [@Launcher claims CLIENT IS RUNNING and will not update until client is closed. Client has been closed for about a day now](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-claims-client-is-running-and-will-not-update-until-client-is-closed-client-has-been-closed-for-about-a-day-now/467887): > > Just what it says on the tin. Specifically it says at the bottom, “An update is pending, and will be downloaded when all running game clients are closed.” Box to the right says CLIENT IS RUNNING Raveena Corvus 0.03. The game is not running, no threads except the launcher is running. How do I fix this? Where starting in October-ish, launch groups would randomly include several instances where they say a client is running, but nothing for it would show, and it could not be closed or re-launced via the EVE launcher. It was somewhat tricky originally to find and close the ‘stuck’ client (using Task Manager). Then there was a period of about 3 weeks (for me) from approx. late Nov. to early Dec., where **none** of the clients I launched (I launch in groups of 5, 4 or 3 accounts) got stuck. Then for the past 3-4 weeks, I’m back to getting stuck clients again, but now the launcher has been adjusted so you can just click on the “Client is running” flag in the EVE launcher and it will shut the stuck client down, and you can re-launch. So it’s possible CCP is attempting various things with the launcher but it isn’t ‘fixed’ yet. Or of course it’s possible CCP isn’t even aware of the issues they’re creating with various changes to the launcher. Hopefully it stabilizes soon. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-launcher-tries-to-download-updates-after-clients-have-started-launching-blocking-additional-clients-from-launching/469033)._