Cant start a game

[ILastSamuraiI]

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

[ILastSamuraiI]

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:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "FAFinstaller.py", line 559, in <module>
  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 <module>
  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 <module>
  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?

[Ze_PilOt]

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

[ILastSamuraiI]

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.

[Ze_PilOt]

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

[ILastSamuraiI]

In the lua there is:


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

which is the path that i selected...

[ILastSamuraiI]

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 ?!

[ILastSamuraiI]

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

[ILastSamuraiI]

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?

[Ze_PilOt]

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).