Forged Alliance Forever

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-10-08T13:36:27+02:00

My ISP are awesome

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 08 Oct 2013, 13:36

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-10-04T21:43:57+02:00

The connection to the server is a simple http one. Nothing special to do.

The UDP thing is for sending data between players, not related to FAF.

And yes, if your IP is changing all the time, the server can't use any magical power to recognize it's still you.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 04 Oct 2013, 21:43

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-10-04T13:39:13+02:00

Update for PilOt:

Got a call from my ISP today saying they had changed some config and everything should now be working. It isn't, however, and the guy on the phone was a bit confused. Can you offer me any more information about how FAF and FA's networking protocols function that I can tell them? I know that I should forward UDP 6112 for FAF, but what ports does FA itself use for the P2P connections?

Also, please confirm if the fact that my external IP changing every time it is contacted is one cause of the problem. For example, if I use Google to find my own visible IP, every time I try, it gives me a new one with the first phrases the same but a different final digit pair. Could this be confusing your server's response packets?

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 04 Oct 2013, 13:39

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-25T11:04:00+02:00

Errrmmm. Not if it's something which doesn't come with windows. All I know about Python is that it's a programming language. What would a local Python installation allow me to do, and how might I go about getting one?

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 25 Sep 2013, 11:04

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-25T10:54:56+02:00

Do you have a local python installation?

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 25 Sep 2013, 10:54

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-25T10:51:16+02:00

I had an odd pattern the other day. I noticed it replicated inside the forever.log file and it makes for (For me) very interesting reading indeed. I pasted the essentials into a file, attached.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 25 Sep 2013, 10:51

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-22T01:56:27+02:00

http://www.mediafire.com/download/uknxk ... /00013.MTS

This should clear up absolutely any uncertainty about what's going on, if you can be bothered to watch it.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 22 Sep 2013, 01:56

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-21T21:41:40+02:00

More and more updates from my end. I just found that booting the game OFFline via the shortcut in programdata/Faforever/bin which was nonfunctional a few days ago now WORKS AGAIN. More than that, it successfully allows me to boot into the game, uses the NEW LOBBY, and begin a game against AI. I suspect it also works for LANs.

Still cannot run games from within FAF, and have trouble connecting to the chat occasionally. UDP connection error on login makes no difference to accessing the chat.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 21 Sep 2013, 21:41

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-21T19:35:45+02:00

Having said that, I get right in. Still can't reliably get a game to run though. I understand the most likely issue is the port blocking problem... But can you explain why SOMETIMES it randomly works?

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 21 Sep 2013, 19:35

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-21T19:31:53+02:00

Can't even get the Chat running now. Once again, it was fine before, and now with no intermediate change (And a new update mind) It won't log into it. I still can't boot the game in successfully either. You know, except from those three random times when it DID work out of nowhere, unreplicated.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 21 Sep 2013, 19:31

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-20T08:12:08+02:00

It's probably a connection issue. (TCP, not UDP).

Most likely a firewall/antivirus/peerblock problem.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 20 Sep 2013, 08:12

Re: FAF cannot boot FA

2013-09-20T01:47:58+02:00

It gets weirder. I've been trying uninstalling and reinstalling etc and noticed an oddity. Sometimes, it just works! It has logged me into the lobby 7 times now since I wrote the thread. It has also locked me out at the black screen about a hundred times. The "Connecting" graphic simply never shows up at all.

On the successful logins, thinking I had finally solved it, I exit correctly, wait a few moments, then create another totally identical game to the one which worked. No banana. I have not managed to get it to launch two in a row.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 20 Sep 2013, 01:47

FAF cannot boot FA {SOLVED}

2013-10-08T13:37:21+02:00

So yes, everything was fine last night. Log in today and BAM can't start a game up. Can't host, can't join.

Click to host, hit to begin, FA boots up, my mouse pointer is an hourglass over a black screen. Then the hourglass is replaced by FA's pointer, the screen goes a bit lighter as the backlights turn on full, and then... nothing. Nothing at all.

All firewalls are off, and got UDP error on login a while back. Turned on uPnP last week and have played plenty of games with that on. All fine until now. Logs attached.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 19 Sep 2013, 20:06