PoE won't launch

Hello. I get these 2 subsequent things and then nothing loads. I've tried repairing the game, that didn't work. Tried running as admin, that didn't work. Tried restarting PC. Not sure what else to do.

Edit: I deleted the files in my C drive, restored them, then ran it again as admin and it's working now... weird...

That's strange. Why your game logo shows "The Forbidden Sanctum"?

This is happening again now with the new patch that just dropped. I will try the fix I did before, but it's quite inconvenient.

Edit: the fix didn't seem to work this time. Will need another solution.

Deleted the file from the C drive, downloaded the installer to reinstall it and the same thing happened.

Edit2: looks like my basic windows security firewall was blocking it. Turned those off and it's working now.

Edit3: Spoke too soon. Cancelled the download to restore the old files that I had deleted and now it won't work again, even with the firewall turned off.

I am downloading via Steam, and i keep getting the same error:

There has been a patch that you need to update to. Please Restart Path of Exile.

I have downloaded 6 times now.

Keeps asking to update the game after patch
already downloaded it serveral times...

(steam client)

Same here, I get an error that asks me to exit the game and restart to update to a patch. It has done this 3 times now.

To clarify, I'm not using the steam client. I don't think I'm having the same issues as the people above me.

Running the steam client.

When you launch, it launches ok. But if you try to log in, it says 'there is a patch you need to download' (more or less, wording)

Exit, and re-launch, and it does a full steam Validation (34.8GB) of the files. When it finishes, it launches. But then it gives the same message.

Exit and re-launch, and it does the validation all over again. Seems to be stuck in a loop.

using steam, same problem : asking to update, verif steam, launch game, asking for update.....