Forticlient VPN 7.4 never connects

[pfournier]

Forticlient VPN 7.2.3 works just fine, but 7.4 just gets stuck on 'connecting' no matter what I change in the settings. 

Is there a fix for this beyond just going with an older version? It doesn't seem to matter whether I upgrade an existing 7.2.3 install or if I install fresh.

Update with Fix: Per this post Fix for FortiClient VPN app being stuck at "Connec... - Fortinet Community the fix is to install the Visual Studio Redistributables from this link https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/dll-files-missing-after-windows-11-update/d9b0...

After installing this the issue is resolved.

[pfournier]

It is 7.4 not 7.2.4 - I'm using the latest build on the site. 7.2.4 didn't work either honestly.

It seems like every single time they update this thing it breaks and we wait months for them to fix it, only for it break on the next version