FAF unable to properly start [SOLVED]

[CrypticCabub]

For some reason when I try to join a game through the FAF client forged alliance starts up, but when it goes to that black screen as the graphics load in, I sometimes see a quick mouse cursor and then it goes back to my desktop. I am able to tab out and attempt to load back into my now running forge alliance, but it just again starts to load, flickers for a second, and goes back to the desktop. When I shut FA down (it says it has connected and FAF shows me as in the lobby) FAF gives me the connection warning about the FAF proxy (which btw, the link gives me a 404 error so I can't do anything with it either)

What has me baffled is that it was working a day or 2 ago and now it doesn't. FA starts just fine when I launch it through steam, but it does not want to load when FAF starts it

I'm running Windows 8.1 64bit with a GTX760, Intel i7 4790k, and 16GB ram

I've tried updating my graphics drivers, Windows update (everything but the windows 10 update itself), and reinstalling my FA client

I'm wondering if the issue is DirectX related, but when I tried to install 9.0 fresh it said something about only being compatible with the older OSes

any help would be much appreciated!
-Caleb

[CrypticCabub]

Ok I think I have it fixed

One solution is to go to C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin and change the ForgedAlliance.exe to compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2). However for that to work you also have to run FAF as administrator.

any other ideas/input is welcome
-CrypticCabub

[SpdyGonzalez]

As I have mentioned in chat, runing as admin and setting compatibility to windows 7 should also work

[CrypticCabub]

Yes that works too, thank you