Unable to Join or Host games

[TheFunnyMuffler]

I keep getting the same error report from the client, I am unable to join or create games or play 1v1 ladder matches. Hopefully you can help me, I have tried the following:

1.Restarting my computer
2.Reinstalling Downlords Client
3.Reinstalling Forged Alliance
Also it will not allow me to copy and paste the error message as it states "Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs"

[armacham01]

Have you ever been able to join or create games?

Did you link your FAF account to a Steam account that owns Forged Alliance?

Can you describe the error message, even if you can't cut and paste the entire thing?

[Geosearchef]

Steam linking isn't the problem.

You probably can't copy paste it as it's too long or contains to many URLs. Please upload it to pastebin. If you can't edit in a link, pm me with it and i'll do. Even better would be the client log. Go to the log folder (top left of the client) and upload the downlords-faf-client.log file. (as a file attachment to the post)

[TheFunnyMuffler]

Yes i have played 2 games and for some reason I began to get this error report. This is the error message I get. Thank you guys!

java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: com.github.nocatch.NoCatchException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe" (in directory "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin"): CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.encodeThrowable(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeThrowable(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniAccept.tryFire(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(Unknown Source)
at com.faforever.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl.lambda$start$8(IceAdapterImpl.java:233)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.github.nocatch.NoCatchException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe" (in directory "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin"): CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.wrapException(NoCatch.java:61)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.noCatch(NoCatch.java:104)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.noCatch(NoCatch.java:82)
at com.faforever.client.game.GameService.lambda$startGame$27(GameService.java:470)
... 5 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe" (in directory "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin"): CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService.launch(ForgedAllianceService.java:128)
at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService.startGame(ForgedAllianceService.java:73)
at com.faforever.client.game.GameService.lambda$startGame$26(GameService.java:470)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.noCatch(NoCatch.java:100)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
... 13 more

[Geosearchef]

Seems like it can't run the file. Probably started as admin the first time.
Try deleting C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ .