Game initiation glitches w/every patch?

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After 8 days away--I'v returned to play. Download went well (I thought).
I've restarted my computer 3 times when log-in screen simply locks up.

Already gave server access permission etc.

Just gotta vent--it happens every freakin' time. Every chronicle, every patch.

"Something" disconnects, corrupts, changes--gets lost.

I'm too old to be a computer nerd--the ****ed things confuse the heck out of me (which I'll freely admit).
My one solution was to buy a brand new computer that was the biggest, newest, most competent I could order about 11 months back---that seems to make no difference as well. (sigh)
But why with every single patch or chronicle do I spend an hour or two trying in vain to get into the game before someone 'on the boards' tells me to change some **** thing or other?

I know everyone else is ******ic over the chronicle and patch changes. Cool.
I have come to hate every 'upgrade'. I'm under-whelmed by all the changes to date and this foolishness of not being able to even play just ****** me off more each time.

For the dozen'th time since I started playing--what do I do now?
This really sounds like a firewall issue; many firewalls learn the versions of software they are allowed to let pass -- and when the version changes, the firewall blocks it until you unblock it again.

I'd put this on one the tech support forum, though.
also make sure your graphics and sound drivers are up to date