@mostlostnoob Cheers for the assist, I believe Avast was at work and I hadn't realised. Hopefully I shall be operational for awhile.

Try to change your default browser to something else, without any extensions, and try again. And check your security/firewall.

Once you get used to zooming out then back in those games with the wasd become very hard to play

ah yea thank you very much. your response here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7246/unable-to-install-faf-client?_=1710689766922 solves it for me

@zappazapper I'm sure that mod does exactly what you wanted, given that it's Jip who removed the function from the base game

@spacewhales You may not see anything stating that it's blocking FAF specifically, but it may still be doing so. What is recommended is to add an exclusion/exception to the firewall for the FAF Client to allow it through. As for the router, that could very well be a source of issues if it's not allowing you to get proper DNS records, so you might want to consider looking into resetting the router/gateway.

I know this is a common issue, but I also doubt all the affected people use Pi-Hole or similar products in between their host and DNS Server. However, this made me think that people with this issue reocurring, also could try changing their DNS Server as a step of troubleshooting. Especially those default DNS Servers from ISP's are not very....reliable. Just a thought.

@boaty-mcboatface You should not have to do it every game. The fact that you do tells me that there's a file permissions issue causing the game to not be able to save changes to the game.prefs file. Have you at any time run the FAF Client or any version of SCFA as Admin?

I've posted this previously on another post, but for me I have to install Equalizer APO. ( the other post specified my specific configuration, it takes a bit more than simply installing it to ensure it is working ) some trial and error might be required. you can use the configuration editor to add a preamp to ensure it's working. For the arctis 7 usb headset ( amongst others) that have their own quasi surround sound, this is the only method to fix this for me. Even for this particular headset, disabling the 7.1 surround option, and setting it to 2.1 in windows has no effect. A past version of their steel series software did not have this issue. I could set a profile to disable their surround setting for specific exe, but past a certain update, it stopped working, and uninstalling their software all together had no effect ( i suppose maybe it did something firmware wise on the headset, but who knows ) At any rate, there are some pretty nice addons for this software, PEACE GUI. there is also a 7.1 surround add-on called Hesuvi and with some tinkering you can switch back and forth from 2.1 to 7.1 profiles, but that is a lot more advanced and has it's own issues. hopefully this helps.

@amygdala Your post was very useful. i did it via configfile. it works now. thx

There's also an Advanced Target Priorities Tweaked that works as advertised if you prefer something from the vault. Edit: the above is actually from Nomander so pretty weird he didn't mention it! Kudos to you for linking to the original mod.

Нужны подробности в виде логов, скриншотов [image: 1708677672126-450618dc-f370-4d7c-b9bb-59d0db3aaf94-image.png] и в этой папке последний game.log и может быть client.log [image: 1708677905879-dad95b74-0678-4385-a6c2-304a2f8383bc-image.png] лучше это в английском дискорде спрашивать в разделе технической поддержке https://discordapp.com/invite/hgvj6Af На крайний случай можно спросить в русском дискорде но там меньше специалистов https://discord.gg/Pn5J8ZP

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7211/personal-custom-avatars

You could test if a VPN from another country would solve the issue.

@katharsas RIP

@magge said in Is this game impossible to play with Steelseries arctis 9?: If someone is inspired to make a tutorial, I would appreciate that. Then I can attach that to the current solution thread and give credit to the tut-maker. Hey, i'm back, I'm sorry about just dumping this and leaving but i was just tired of this problem blocking me from playing one of my favourite games. Have some energy now to make an effort to maybe start playing this game again. An idea that just came to me was for the game to have a built in system for the sound. Like @Nex talked about the program voicemeeter, an interface between whatever sound you have on your computer and the game engine. But that it is built into the client. Like a virtual sound output, so the sound outputs from the game engine to this "virtual unit" and this "unit" outputs the sound to windows. Like a translator, doesn't have to be pretty. Would be cool if you could forward this idea to the dev team if you have contact with them, they've probably already thought about most solutions, but hey it takes like 1 minute to read, and if they don't think it'll work atleast it was worth a shot. Edit: Okey i just noticed that @Jip is team leader I will in the meantime try with @Nex solution and a bunch of others. @Sam-site I've tried that, if you look into my post history i haven't been able to play since back in 23 Apr 2022 when i made my first sound issue post and have probably reinstalled the game 10-20 times (cleared all files and such in-between) changed headset, change settings everywhere in every possible combination since then. I even had a 4 hour long talk with logitech support (my headset i had before this). I even got to talk with their "chief of engineer" or something on the dev team of the software, because somehow the stereo option on their program Ghub is not real stereo, so i asked them why the f they called it stereo if it's not real stereo (i mean ofc real real stereo can't be virtual right? but i would think that a "virtual real stereo" would behave the same way software-wise as real stereo, okey i'm talking outside the scope of my knowledge here and only what i THINK i know and i might be way off). And if i plugged it in the headphone jack i couldn't use it as stereo via windows....or it was something like that, can't quite remember exactly, it was all very technical and wierd. @Jip I will look into his posts, thanks.