Display Morethats actually hard to tell without further information
maybe the updates get blocked by a firewall
maybe its a permission issue with the installation folder
the fact that it started crossfire but then exited might indicate that the mod is not installed correctly or that it crashed because of incompatible savegames
on the first run it actually should have downloaded +100 files
the daily updates are smaller.
About the exit, i did it, it didnt crash
I started the game and then exit