Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-27T04:10:58+02:00

Ok, it's working for me now.

What I think it was is, for whatever reason a process called WmiPrvSE.exe takes up a lot of CPU processing on my machine, and since I haven't yet determined the cause I use a program to suspend it since it's not exactly critical. Looks like that's a necessary component for FAF or at least a dependency of FAF. Resuming the process made the program work for me (and now, I finally have an account and can use the program normally)

Anyways, thanks for the help, guys.

Statistics: Posted by Scipi — 27 Apr 2013, 04:10

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-25T00:55:07+02:00

There's no antivirus on my computer save Microsoft Security Essentials which I recently disabled.

There's a single firewall rule which blocks an IP address associated with Youtube to better video buffering. I don't know if that could be interfering, but I'll disable it when I get home and see if that solves the issue.

Statistics: Posted by Scipi — 25 Apr 2013, 00:55

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-25T00:49:20+02:00

Well, that means that the problem is on your end e.g. your PC is not connecting to FAF server in the first place. You are 100% sure you deactivated your firewall, windows firewall, AND any antivirus?

Statistics: Posted by BRNKoINSANITY — 25 Apr 2013, 00:49

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-25T00:33:14+02:00

I haven't tried running as administrator or in compatibility mode. I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

I think I should note though, I'm not getting to any kind of login screen, or any kind of screen for that matter. Just a small window with a progress bar thing and the "setting up session" message. It also creates an icon in the system tray that does nothing, that's about it.

Statistics: Posted by Scipi — 25 Apr 2013, 00:33

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-25T00:00:42+02:00

One other thing you might try is to run it as administrator and then in XP compatibility if that doesn't work. I have windows 8, and I have to run as administrator for the client to save my game settings and connect reliably to game lobbies.... it has been a while and I don't remember if I had an issue logging in at first. Just something you might try if you still have had no luck after double checking your firewall, antivirus, and ports.

Statistics: Posted by BRNKoINSANITY — 25 Apr 2013, 00:00

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-24T14:01:10+02:00

Uid.log is empty. Forever.log is the only log with anything written to it.

Statistics: Posted by Scipi — 24 Apr 2013, 14:01

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-24T08:16:03+02:00

do you have uid.log ?

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 24 Apr 2013, 08:16

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-24T08:14:05+02:00

I'm not running any antivirus, nor is there any other programs that should be interfering.

Statistics: Posted by Scipi — 24 Apr 2013, 08:14

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-24T07:48:19+02:00

Check antivirus, peerblock, .....

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 24 Apr 2013, 07:48

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-24T06:42:40+02:00

I'll see if copying the game over to the C: drive works. Meanwhile, thanks for that clarification of where the logs are, I misread the directory path

Here are the logs for the last time I attempted to launch the program from forever.log:

Code:: 2013-04-23 23:40:46,325 INFO faf.main >>> --------------------------- Application Launch 2013-04-23 23:40:47,348 DEBUG faf.fa.relayserver initializing... 2013-04-23 23:40:47,351 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 0 on port 12000 2013-04-23 23:40:47,352 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 1 on port 12001 2013-04-23 23:40:47,352 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 2 on port 12003 2013-04-23 23:40:47,352 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 3 on port 12006 2013-04-23 23:40:47,354 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 4 on port 12010 2013-04-23 23:40:47,354 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 5 on port 12015 2013-04-23 23:40:47,354 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 6 on port 12021 2013-04-23 23:40:47,354 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 7 on port 12028 2013-04-23 23:40:47,355 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 8 on port 12036 2013-04-23 23:40:47,355 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 9 on port 12045 2013-04-23 23:40:47,355 INFO faf.fa.proxies binding socket 10 on port 12055 2013-04-23 23:40:47,364 INFO faf.util Read common stylesheet: client/client.css 2013-04-23 23:40:47,509 INFO faf.util Read common stylesheet: stats/formatters/style.css 2013-04-23 23:40:47,529 INFO faf.util Read common stylesheet: tournaments/formatters/style.css 2013-04-23 23:40:47,529 DEBUG faf.vault Map Vault tab instantiating 2013-04-23 23:40:47,562 INFO faf.replays Replays Widget instantiated. 2013-04-23 23:40:47,568 INFO faf.tutorials Tutorials instantiated. 2013-04-23 23:40:47,585 INFO faf.client Outgoing JSON Message: {"action": "requestavatars", "command": "admin"} 2013-04-23 23:40:47,592 INFO faf.fa.replayserver listening on address 127.0.0.1:15000 2013-04-23 23:40:47,595 INFO faf.fa.relayserver relay listening on address 127.0.0.1:60043 2013-04-23 23:40:47,773 INFO faf.client Outgoing JSON Message: {"command": "ask_session"}

Looks like the ports are fine, it may just not like the installation on a separate drive.

Statistics: Posted by Scipi — 24 Apr 2013, 06:42

Re: Client not starting

2013-04-24T06:22:33+02:00

Not 100% sure, but I think the default path is to the c: drive, and I was talking to a guy a while back with 2 drives and the client/game refused to run unless both were on the c: drive.

As to the logging in, check that your ports are open. If you can't get it running ZeP is on during euro daytime and should give you a better answer.

Edit -> The logs are located in a hidden directory in the programdata folder. You have to show the folder before you can get to it. This is the path on the C:drive . "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\logs"

Statistics: Posted by BRNKoINSANITY — 24 Apr 2013, 06:22

Client not starting

2013-04-24T06:01:29+02:00

Hello.

I just found FAF today (via some remarkable Youtube vids by felixlighta), and decided to try it out.

I'm running into some issues with the installation, however as I cannot start the FAF Lobby client. Whenever I run the program, I get a box with a message "Setting up Session" and it stays there. The progress bar below stays frozen.

I'm not sure if FAF installed properly, my FA installation is on a steam installation on a different drive and searching through various forum posts and the wiki for details about installation, there's been various conflicting information with little actual explanation of how the installation is supposed to work. I've seen references to a folder C:/Forged Alliance Forever - Lobby, which is apparently different than C:/ProgramFiles/Forged Alliance Forever. Some posts saying to make a BinFaF folder in my installation directory and put FA.exe in there (although under Steam it's Supreme Commander.exe. Then I found that you set the path for the game directory in the lobby program itself.

I'd like to try and figure this out, so how exactly am I supposed to have this installed? My FA installation is on a separate HDD than my C: drive, and I don't know if that is affecting anything or not.

Reading other threads, I expect I'm inevitably going to be asked for logs. Although from my understanding logs aren't created unless the program actually starts and you enable logging. Since the program isn't starting for me, I don't have any logs. Or at least, none are under the installation directory.

Statistics: Posted by Scipi — 24 Apr 2013, 06:01