@flang: Sorry, I cannot reproduce this problem. It's working for me. The "Error reading data from dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net" message looks like DFR has some problems getting data from the internet. May be some firewall on your system is blocking DFR from accessing thet net? There's no firewall …

@MattM1121: I haven't tested DFR on Windows 8 yet, but I haven't heard of any general problems running DFR under Windows 8. So I think DFR should run under Windows 8, too. So with this little information ("I'm getting access violations") I can't help you. In the past the most problems running DFR …