I am making progress. Not sure what worked to be honest but the blockchain is now downloading on the new wallet. Fingers crossed.

A suggestion: put the .conf instructions at the top of the OP with the fresh wallet links, people will see it easier. Or even better, a download of a .conf file all ready to go.

Thanks to those who tried to help. Hope this go works.

The new wallet file is the same as the original wallet, just with a new logo and some checkpoints for syncing.

Mine is working perfectly, but I had to delete everything except my wallet and BitcoinDark.conf, restart the wallet and let it redownload the blockchain.

Matthew

Never had a problem. Connected and staking all this time.

By all means stick with the old wallet, if it ain't broke don't fix it! : -)

Getting the new wallet and deleting all but the wallet.dat and BitcoinDark.conf file, fixed it for me.

ok, thanks !!  now it works with the new "wallet" on Win 8.1 (I deleted everything as you suggested except wallet.dat and bitcoindark.conf) ... remeber to flag the administrator privilege on .exe

Good lord this coin doesn't want to seem to take too massive a dip ever.  Have been trying to pick up another coin 'on the cheap' but doesn't look like my order will be filling anytime soon :p

To much support. 0.1 here we go! 

Lol there's just one problem with that... they don't have James on their dev team!!
In all seriousness, if their intention is to be accepted as part if the SuperNET as they state, they need to have unique features, not just copy what is already being done with BTCD.

just put it in BitcoinDark.conf from the op