Can not host or join games

[BRNKoINSANITY]

When I try to join or host games FAF does nothing. No black screen, not flash, nothing.

Here is the log of the instance---

2013-01-26 17:59:49,029 INFO faf.fa Checking FA for: faf and map gap of rohan.v0001
2013-01-26 17:59:49,029 INFO faf.fa Updating FA for mod: faf, version None
2013-01-26 17:59:50,341 INFO faf.fa Writing fa_path.lua config file.
2013-01-26 17:59:50,388 INFO faf.fa Updating FA for map: gap of rohan.v0001
2013-01-26 17:59:50,388 INFO faf.fa Map is available.
2013-01-26 17:59:50,388 INFO faf.client Outgoing JSON Message: {"command": "game_join", "uid": 590845, "gameport": 6112}
2013-01-26 17:59:50,621 INFO faf.client Handling game_launch via JSON {u'args': [u'/ratingcolor d6d6d6d6', u'/numgames 617'], u'command': u'game_launch', u'uid': 590845, u'mod': u'faf'}
2013-01-26 17:59:50,637 INFO faf.fa Running FA with info: {'recorder': u'BRNKoINSANITY', 'game_time': 1359244790.637, 'uid': 590845, 'version_info': {'lobby': '0.7.598'}, 'featured_mod': u'faf'}
2013-01-26 17:59:50,637 INFO faf.fa Running FA via command: "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe" /ratingcolor d6d6d6d6 /numgames 617 /mean 1536.0 /deviation 63.5629 /init init_faf.lua /savereplay gpgnet://localhost/590845/BRNKoINSANITY.SCFAreplay /nobugreport /gpgnet 127.0.0.1:49441
2013-01-26 17:59:50,667 INFO faf.client FA has launched in an attached process.
2013-01-26 17:59:50,667 WARNING faf.client FA has finished with exit code: -1073741515

[Ze_PilOt]

If you are on seven, try disabling aero.

I think some other players have issues like that before.

Try launching the exe yourself too (in programData/faforever/bin).

[BRNKoINSANITY]

Problem has been fixed. I am on a new PC and evidently my DirectX was not on the latest version. Clicking on the .exe in FAF's bin folder gave a "missing file" error which led to the fix.