downloading FAF lobby

[uberge3k]

Patch it!
http://cdn.thqonline.com/SC/Patches/sup ... 5.3599.exe

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I hate you alware..... You stand beween me and thermo!!!!!

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Now i am bemused!!! I re formatted my computer hard drive, re installing windows only and hey i downloaded FAF and !!!
Yipee i thought all is now OK.

OH no, how wrong can I be? tried to connect this evening and a pop up saying I need to DL an update and hey presto the same ol problem.... disk1.cab file etc.

Tell me how can I be connected earlier without need for update and now need one but cant complete DL?

The only difference between this morning and now is that i have reinstalled anti virus. I had disabled it prior to DL just in case but no difference.

Please help

[uberge3k]

Are you sure that your copy of FA is legitimate?

If the answer is anything other than an enthusiastic "yes!", then download it from Steam and try again. Just want to eliminate that as a possibility.

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The answer is a resounding YES. The game is hard disk purchased from store and used for years on GPG and faf.

I am going to have to do another re format and windows install as my pc is now bugged by switching the av off and trying to fix the registry.........

[pip]

Maybe you can try cc cleaner before having to reinstall everything.

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well clean computer all new download, tried faf but........... same disk1.cab message! Downloaded Steam SC FA but no difference. Tried IE tried FFox tried Opera web browsers to dl but all the same.

Is there any other download method I can use?

[eXcalibur]

i just had the same problem.

i installed win8 and wanted to install faf. here is what problems i have encountered:

- first i tried to install version 586 --> disk1.cab problem. damn. i tried this a couple of times with insalling .net framework 2 and 3 (4 is already preinstalled in win8). no success.
- then i tried to install version 570 --> this installed without problems, then i logged in and had to download version 586 --> download error. damn.
- after that i tried to install version 584 --> this went well. after loggin in i had to download version 586 --> amazingly this went great!!!
- i thought my problems were solved. then i logged in. this went well. after that faf froze (no loading of player names). i did try this three times and restarted my computer in between. after the third time it finally worked.

this is strange.

[ColonelSheppard]

Windows 8 is the problem, don't use it

[da_monstr]

Windows 8 is the problem, don't use it

Windows 8 is not the problem, I used FAF on 8 consumer preview as well as on the 8 RTM. No problems at all.