Running FA Forever on Computer with no 'Documents' link [SOLVED]

[petekessell]

Hi all,

So I have installed Forged Alliance on a laptop from work which can only log me on with a 'temporary' profile. As such, the 'links' to the Documents folder etc. do not work, so there were two lines in this file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\bin\SupComDataPath.lua

specifically:
mount_contents(SHGetFolderPath('PERSONAL') .. 'My Games\\Gas Powered Games\\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\\mods', '/mods')
mount_contents(SHGetFolderPath('PERSONAL') .. 'My Games\\Gas Powered Games\\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\\maps', '/maps')

Which just caused the game to crash before loading up. I changed them to this:

mount_contents('C:\\Users\\%UserName%\\My Games\\Gas Powered Games\\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\\mods', '/mods')
mount_contents('C:\\Users\\%UserName%\\My Games\\Gas Powered Games\\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\\maps', '/maps')

Which seemed to fix the problem and the game runs! However, when I try and run the FA Forever client I get an error message:

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I am now properly stuck as to what to do!

Please help, I'd love to play this game with my housemate! Thanks.

[DukeOfEarl]

Hi,

when your "Documents" folder is not in a "normal" state, FAF should use C:\ProgramData\FAForever instead. Obviously your case isn't something we've foreseen but I'll see if we can figure out a workaround for your issue.

Please help, I'd love to play this game with my housemate! Thanks.

Please keep in mind that two players on the same LAN aren't fully supported by FAF yet!

[DukeOfEarl]

Hi, please try this client build: https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/m ... -win32.msi

[DukeOfEarl]

Did you get a chance to test the client build I made for you? If it fixes your problem I can integrate it into the regular client.

[petekessell]

You are an absolute hero! Apologies for the late reply, it's been a crazy week. Just uninstalled the old client and installed the one you sent me, ran first time without any issues. Thank you so much. Amazed with such a good forum response if I'm honest!

[DukeOfEarl]

Great!