THE GUIDE! Here is my first guide, suppose one must start somewhere... I hope it is not TOO redundant, but I certainly never found Elsword Gold a clear answer to this problem on google.

Intro: Hello, I am The Paradoxical Entity, just coming back to Kal. I've never participated in any Kal Forums or even leveled very far. This is because I got Vista 64-bit after my family's computer broke.

So obviously, I figured out through massive googling and such HOW to run Kal Online in this so-called improvement of Windows Vista, after I tried to give Kal another shot at working on Vista.

In Short: You know that little sentence in parenthesis at the CLient Download page that says "(This version is not compatible with Windows Vista 64bit version)"? It don't mean squat

Step One: Getting the Installer to Run - The first step is getting the downloader onto your computer. Getting it by clicking "Full Version" doesn't work. Instead, use partition downloading.

Step Two: Making Kal Online Start - Once you reach your second step, you should have Kal Online safely downloaded into your computer. You aren't done yet.

Unless you run it as administrator, Kal will NOT decompress some dumb image file when you start it up and it does its first long load before game (which usually occurs whenever Kal updates).