I recently downloaded Photon-Qt for Windows. It's hard to figure out which is the latest stable release, with different versions posted in this thread, and on the photon website. I went for the download in the first post on this forum, assuming it's been updated.   Photon Windows QT 8.9.1.1 Open ssl 1.0.1h+ QR code support. The help "about" still says it's version v0.8.9.0-g8c5e74e-beta, so that probably needs updating.

After adding a list of nodes suggested by BD747, I was up and running. But the client only processes 500 blocks before it stops catching up. I have to restart it, and it will catch up by another 500 blocks with each reload. I left it on all night and it still only does 500 blocks. Is there some sort of cache limitation that's preventing it from doing more?

edit: Yes, I know I should go to github and build from source. But I'm hopelessly clueless, and need a binary!