Today I downloaded the client from a clean slate. I linked it to my steam account and game location as is normal. Upon attempting to search for a ranked game the message "Preparing game: Downloading faforever.faf" in the bottom left corner. I assume this is a normal process where it then proceeds over the next 1.5hrs (thanks github
) to download env.nx2 textures.nx2 and units.nx2. I go back thinking everything completed correctly and hit play, I am then greeted by the same message before and for the next 1.5hrs the client downloads exactly the same files. I was quite perplexed and after these 3 hours of trying to access FAF through the client I attempt to access "ForgedAlliance.exe" directly from C:>ProgramData>FAForever>bin>ForgedAlliance.exe. This works and FAF opens perfectly, I am able to go into a skirmish and all non-standard colors are available and everything functions as normal. I then close my game, close my client, and launch my client again to try and to play ranked. Nope. Same downloads and everything... Hmmmmm I think I should uninstall and re-install..... I do this and once again I am greeted by the same download regime as before. After the 1.5 hours, I come back and try to play ranked but it then tries to download all of the same files. I then check under C:>ProgramData>FAForever>gamedata in order to see if the files are really there. I then notice that all of the .nx2 files are already present in the gamedata folder, I think hmm maybe it is just not reading them so I close the client and re-launch but to no avail, it begins to download the same files again. I think wow that's weird am I just in a loop? I decided to close the client and delete the bin and gamedata folders from the C:>ProgramData>FAForever directory. When I re-launch the client and try to play I assume that the client will check for these folders, realize they are gone and attempt to re-download the data. This is exactly what the client does and I wait the 1.5 hours once more expecting that somehow it was just not reading the data correctly or it had the wrong location or something. Yet after doing this, when I attempt to hit "Play" I am once more greeted by the client trying to download data that I can see already exists under its directory.
At this point I am perplexed and uninstall everything from my computer, restart my computer and try to download again for about the 5th time by now. I turn off windows firewall and go through the whole installation process. 1.5 hours later... Play... "downloading env.nx2"... I go check in C:>ProgramData>FAForever>gamedata... and it already exists... I am so confused and would really love the ability to play some FAF...
To summarize, Faf WILL launch when launched from the exe in C:>ProgramData>FAForever>bin
FAF will NOT launch when attempting to access the lobby from the 1.1.2 client.
the data can be found in the directory at C:>ProgramData>FAForever>gamedata, however, the client still tries to download it and will not launch even when the folders have been deleted and reinstalled.
Thank you all, I have seen little mention of any issue similar to this on the forums and have attached my log in the hope that this can be fixed.
Thanks,
-MonKKy
