Yeah I know. I've tried it with/without. Sometimes it gets close to completion and then stops, and won't ever try again--keeps saying checkpoint too old. One time it did complete the download, and showed synced, but seconds later showed out of date again and refused to download the chain. I've seen others mention the issue.

This is the *only* client which I have issues with. Even dogecoin works fine, despite it being retarded.

Even bitcoin blockchain is far easier to download, I can usually get the whole thing down in under 2 hours. Not starcoin though.. 24 hours later it's still only like 90% complete, and then it dies.