It boots fast because the main reason to that patch to exists is to enable fast booting (it's described in the exe download page itself), if you paste your C&C online file, and you see that the message is DLL injection result -large_number then you are properly connecting to C&C Online, you are probably not using the "server email", it's something in your config you have to use, server email, and server password
follow this https://cnc-online.net/en/account/
I am using the the correct stuff