Game will not launch

[FailureToLaunch]

I cannot get the game to launch via faf. No playing and no replays.

Yesterday I was getting a little tiny popup box that just said "FA has failed to start". Now today I get a large popup bug report entitled Fatal Error. I'll post this report below. Unfortunately, even after clicking the logging setting in faf, there dfon't seem to be any logs being saved in the instals.

Unhandled exception:

attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:

Program : C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe
Cmd line arguments : /replay C:/ProgramData/FAForever/cache/temp.scfareplay /init init_faf.lua /nobugreport /log C:\ProgramData\FAForever\logs\replay.log /replayid 2215333

Callstack:
Unknown symbol (address 0x008d462c)

Last 100 lines of log...

info: checking C:\Users\X\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\mods
info: checking C:\Users\X\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps
info: checking C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\..\user\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\mods
info: checking C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\..\user\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps
info: checking C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\..\gamedata\*.nxt
info: checking C:\games\THQ\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander\gamedata\*.scd
info: not safe C:\games\THQ\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander\gamedata\fonts.scd
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\users\x\documents\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\4v4isis.v0001', mounted as '/maps/4v4isis.v0001/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\users\x\documents\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\moonlight.v0001', mounted as '/maps/moonlight.v0001/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\users\x\documents\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\standing stones.v0002', mounted as '/maps/standing stones.v0002/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\programdata\faforever\gamedata\faforever.nxt', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\programdata\faforever\gamedata\lobby.nxt', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\editor.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\effects.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\env.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\loc_us.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\lua.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\meshes.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\mods.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\objects.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\projectiles.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\props.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\skins.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\textures.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander\gamedata\units.scd', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'c:\games\thq\gas powered games\supreme commander', mounted as '/'
info: Hooked /lua/userInit.lua with /schook/lua/userInit.lua
info: Hooked /lua/globalInit.lua with /schook/lua/globalInit.lua
info: MD5 of global settings: 6d164112cb40b8236e1a2e0c4c7c814f
warning: SND: Error initializing audio engine.
Invalid data
warning: Error in file /lua/userInit.lua : Unable to find file /lua/system/BuffBlueprints.lua
stack traceback:
[C]: ?
...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\config.lua(14): in function `doscript'
...\faforever\gamedata\faforever.nxt\lua\globalinit.lua(48): in main chunk
[C]: in function `doscript'
...ta\faforever\gamedata\faforever.nxt\lua\userinit.lua(11): in main chunk
info: Loading module '\000/lua/keymap/keynames.lua\000'
info: Loading module '\000/lua/keymap/keymapper.lua\000'
info: Loading module '\000/lua/user/prefs.lua\000'
warning: Unable to find file /lua/user/prefs.lua
warning: stack traceback:
warning: [C]: ?
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\config.lua(14): in function `doscript'
warning: [C]: in function `pcall'
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(48): in function `import'
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(37): in function `import'
warning: ...ever\gamedata\faforever.nxt\lua\keymap\keymapper.lua(9): in main chunk
warning: [C]: ?
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\config.lua(14): in function `doscript'
warning: [C]: in function `pcall'
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(48): in function `import'
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(37): Error importing '/lua/user/prefs.lua'
warning: stack traceback:
warning: [C]: in function `error'
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(52): in function `import'
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(37): in function `import'
warning: ...ever\gamedata\faforever.nxt\lua\keymap\keymapper.lua(9): in main chunk
warning: [C]: ?
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\config.lua(14): in function `doscript'
warning: [C]: in function `pcall'
warning: ...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(48): in function `import'
warning: Error importing /lua/keymap/keymapper.lua:
Error importing '/lua/keymap/keymapper.lua'
stack traceback:
[C]: in function `error'
...eme commander\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\system\import.lua(52): in function `import'

[FailureToLaunch]

You know, I just thought of something.

Program : C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe

That doesn't exist on my computer, unless it's hidden. Both FA (steam) and FAF are uinstalled under c:/games/... It shouldn't matter really, but does it?

[Ze_PilOt]

Looks like your original install is not found or not properly installed.

Hard to say more without logs.

[FailureToLaunch]

I seem to remember that it asked me where my instal was located and I think I showed it to the SPCOM folder, but I play on steam. Maybe that's the problem.

Also, is this happy cloud business a part of FAF? Just noticed this thing on my computer.

[FailureToLaunch]

Yup, that was the problem. I had an ancient outofdate instal from when the game first came out with nothing in it, just empty folders. Re-directing to the steam app fixed my trouble.

Solved.