After much trial and error, I have learned that my isp’s security suite, although it IS NOT blocking “knytt stories.exe”, IS blocking an executable file, “stdrt.exe”, which I ignored because I didn’t know it was possibly related to KS.
I’m unsure if “knytt stories.exe” creates or uses this file. All I know about it is what I’ve read on the following three web pages (see below), one of which is a Knytt forum page. Two other links I found pointed to the old forum which, of course, is no longer accessible.
Does anyone know more about this file? Is it safe? It would be nice if this thread could help prevent others from spending as much time as I have searching for the reason I couldn’t get my Knytt fix.
"THANK YOU" to all who read this and may have spent time thinking about a solution!
http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=2853.0LB wrote: "stdrt.exe" is the internal filename for all applications made with TGF2/MMF2 from Click team.
http://www.rlslog.net/nightsky-vace/W wrote: NightSky.exe is infected – when you try to start the game it creates stdrt.exe file and process, which is classified as trojan/backdoor and automatically removed by norton.
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?threaded=1&v=YpnGL3ggGFkIckius wrote: Good video however Knytt Story creates two processes, the one you saw (Knytt Stories.exe) seems to be some kind of launcher for stdrt.exe (which uses a pretty standard amount of memory for a game)