Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Cant start a game

2012-05-01T00:48:21+02:00

Thx a lot godfather!

I did reinstall the game from my DVD. It did not work at all. Then I deleted everything i could find with FAF and FA and again installed it via Steam (just FA) this time.

Now the game works if i start it via Steam. And something new and strange:

- in the FAF folder there are 2 main exes: ForgedAlliance.exe which wont work
- and SupremeCommander.exe which somehow works and starts the FA (Vanilla is not installed).

So could i somehow tell FAF to use the SupremeCommander.exe and not the other one which is not working. Perhaps that could save my problem...!?

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 01 May 2012, 00:48

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-29T23:57:24+02:00

AHHHH LastSamurai i read your post at insidesupcom

I play with a steam installation

My bin folder:

http://www.file-upload.net/download-...3/bin.zip.html

Statistics: Posted by Godfather — 29 Apr 2012, 23:57

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-29T17:46:46+02:00

No idea. Maybe you should ask someone with a working steam install to give you his FAF bin folder.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 29 Apr 2012, 17:46

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-29T17:40:36+02:00

Mhm i got VC 2005,2008 and 2010. Perhaps i have to try to reinstall some. Which ones do I need for faf?

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 29 Apr 2012, 17:40

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-29T17:38:56+02:00

No, it's not related.

Maybe you need some VC redistributable that Steam version doesn't need.

The steam version is not officially supported by FAF, I can't help you more (I never tested it with FAF).

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 29 Apr 2012, 17:38

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-29T17:32:45+02:00

ok last update:

i just copied the steam .exe into the faf folder. It does not work there too. Same error.
So could there be a problem with faf on C: and steam and fa on D: ??

Is there a special place where you have to install it?

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 29 Apr 2012, 17:32

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-29T17:09:59+02:00

Ok i tried the folders in the sc fa folder too (like bin and gamedata) but that does not work either.
Help plz !

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 29 Apr 2012, 17:09

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-29T10:27:16+02:00

But it still does not work

Edit: The appcrash error msg always tells me that forgedalliance.exe ist Version 1.5.0.1. Isnt that a very old one?? How is that possible.. steam should autoupdate that ?!

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 29 Apr 2012, 10:27

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-28T18:06:12+02:00

In the lua there is:

fa_path = 'D:\\Programme\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\supreme commander forged alliance'

which is the path that i selected...

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 28 Apr 2012, 18:06

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-28T17:51:22+02:00

in c:\ProgramData\FAForever\
check what is inside fa_path.lua.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 28 Apr 2012, 17:51

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-28T17:40:52+02:00

Thx a lot! But what is the correct path?
I did use D:\Programme\Steam\steamapps\common\supreme commander forged alliance
Thats where steam put my FA in.

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 28 Apr 2012, 17:40

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-28T16:15:30+02:00

You didn't set a correct FA path. (option, settings, game path).

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 28 Apr 2012, 16:15

Re: Cant start a game

2012-04-28T16:11:16+02:00

I reinstalled the FAF Client today under Steamapps/.../binfaf (found that somewhere) and it still does not work. However I found a FAinstaller.exe.log with some errors:

Code:: Traceback (most recent call last): File "FAFinstaller.py", line 559, in File "FAFinstaller.py", line 67, in __init__ File "FAFinstaller.py", line 363, in getFaPath TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call: QFontMetrics.width(QChar): argument 1 has unexpected type 'NoneType' QFontMetrics.width(QString, int length=-1): argument 1 has unexpected type 'NoneType' Traceback (most recent call last): File "FAFinstaller.py", line 559, in File "FAFinstaller.py", line 67, in __init__ File "FAFinstaller.py", line 363, in getFaPath TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call: QFontMetrics.width(QChar): argument 1 has unexpected type 'NoneType' QFontMetrics.width(QString, int length=-1): argument 1 has unexpected type 'NoneType' Traceback (most recent call last): File "FAFinstaller.py", line 559, in File "FAFinstaller.py", line 67, in __init__ File "FAFinstaller.py", line 363, in getFaPath TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call: QFontMetrics.width(QChar): argument 1 has unexpected type 'NoneType' QFontMetrics.width(QString, int length=-1): argument 1 has unexpected type 'NoneType'

Could that be a problem?

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 28 Apr 2012, 16:11

Cant start a game

2012-04-27T21:48:24+02:00

I installed FA and Vanilla via Steam. If I start fa it works fine.
Then I installed FAF (fa still works). But if I want to start a game in FAF there is always an error with the fa.exe.

FA Path is: D:\Programme\Steam\steamapps\common\supreme commander forged alliance
FAF Path: D:\Spiele\Forged Alliance Forever

But the exe that crashes is somehow still in C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin .

and from the error Log: 2012-04-27 20:54:00,309 WARNING faf.client FA has finished with exit code: -1073740771

Any help would be great! Wann play again

Statistics: Posted by ILastSamuraiI — 27 Apr 2012, 21:48