yes. I could play before i intalled the patch .
I also did system restore but when i go on line it wants me to update again so i do update again but after it gives me the same message.

could it be norton? when i first got my mobo it came with and oem of norton but it was a new version that i didn't have on my other comp=laptop .
when i'm surfing the web and i go in a web site norton always tells me to except or block and that made me confused for months but after it stoped and some pages dont show up so may be norton is blocking the conection to the main server.
