downloading FAF lobby

[eXcalibur]

i am still having problems with faf. sometimes when starting faf it does not connect to the faf server at all. sometimes it needs about 2 minutes to do that and sometimes it works perfectly (like in win7)-

right now it seems to work, but i only see users from the us online (i am from germany). all other users are grey. i cannot host a server, because i do not see the any button to click on. i do not see any custom game as well.


so there seem to be still some bugs for faf in windows 8. that is all i want to say.
i can wait until it gets fixed (like next year)...

furthermore it seems to work occasionally in win7 and win xp compatibility mode.

[Ze_PilOt]

Probably a problem in the routing. Search the forum about it, a german provider had some problems a while ago.

This is not related to FAF and I can't do anything.

[eXcalibur]

until 2 days ago, i had win7 on my computer and faf worked perfectly.

the network, the ISP, the router and the hardware is the same. the only thing that i changed was the operating system.

can it still be a routing problem?

[Ze_PilOt]

Yes. It has nothing to do with your hardware. Your ISP (or any router between you and the server) can have a (temporary) failure at any time.

[eXcalibur]

i think i have found the problem.

you were almost right, but it was not my ISP/router/network, but my anti virus program (avast free antivirus 7 - it is wrongly certified for win8), which also caused problems with watching/downloading 720p or 1080p videos on the internet...

it took me about 2 days and 3 installs of win8 to figure this out.

thanks for your help anyways.