Yeah, sorry that was meant to be in past tense, All is well now at any rate thank you for the help, I'm guessing my log in details were stored in the registry when i installed 0.9 ages ago, so i dont have to log in again on this pc.

Ah, interesting however i had literally just downloaded the game, pressing check updates told me im up to date, looking at the download page now:

I see the experimental release hyper link and found the right version, however it wasnt clear that this was not part of the title, but a link to the ...

I've noticed my multiplayer button doesn't appear, at first i thought it might be a hidden console command.

Now i know there is a button, I think I've realised the problem, when i installed factorio originally i had a prompt to log in, and i did. this time however i was not prompted, I'm guessing i ...