https://forum.faforever.com/post/66617

Tested it without any mods and a vanilla map, still break (helped get did of a different problem tho)

Also start a normal game once. There is a bug I think if you try to start a replay first. Since it is looking for the non replay bin folder

Thank you, magge. I appreciate your time and effort. I'll be trying the fix in §2 over the next few whenevers, and we'll see what happens.

Thanks Nomander! It is working now.

I see nothing related to AI that could cause an error. Please enable the debugger in FAF settings, reproduce the issue and post the new log. However, I see: warning: SND: XACT3DApply failed. which will cause issues. Possible fixes: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4084/solutions-for-snd-error-xact-invalid-arg-xact3dapply-failed/1?_=1701727567076

@magge OK so....after a lot of testing I think I have narrowed the issue down to 2 mods. "Rings For All" and "UI mod tools" The random freezing while zooming in and out would almost happen many times during an average game (even if it didnt completely freeze and crash) and that effect is nowhere present when those two mods are disabled and zero crashes now or anything for many dozens of games. For my part I have no skills to investigate this further but it does seem like there are a lot of people complaining about mid game crashing so maybe this is related. I am able to use my favorite icon packs again with zero issue, the only bummer for me is not having Rings For All active because that is an amazing mod but build range preview has been working fine so everything is back to normal in FAF world for me. Thanks for steering me in the right direction. If anyone else is crashing mid game and you have either of these 2 mods enabled try disabling them and reassessing.

Some update from my friend, when we switched his windows power plan setting from Balanced to High Performance, the lag was vastly reduced. So might be related to how windows scheduler handles the loading of files from the OS or something like that (assuming this task is delegated to a background thread). Worth trying for anyone else with the issue

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The API can return the list, the client just needs to show it.

Enable debugger in the FAF client, reproduce the issue and post the new log, please.

@Band228 As a quick workaround you could use a free VPN like Proton. So I'm starting to think, if you read it like that, they jump through the lobbies, collect the IPs (logs / Wireshark) of the players and then DDoS them. And so you have a 12 player match destroyed quite quickly. Players don't change their IPs that often, 24-hour forced disconnection hardly exists anymore, so the IP remains the same for most private connections until the router is restarted. That's not so far-fetched. There was a time when they went through the lobbies and crashed them with a ?bug? (I don't know if they were the same ones). @Brutus5000 Couldn't you force all connections to be established via relay (global) and prevent all P2P connections so that the private IPs don't appear anywhere (as with a VPN)? Might be worth a try.

@Purban said in Unable to save the game in offline mode: To fix this, you need to find "/gamedata/lua.nx2". Create backup for safety and rename the file to "lua.zip", find and extract file "userInit.lua". Inside, find this line (should be near the top) "doscript '/lua/ui/globals/InternalSaveGame.lua'". Delete it or comment out, save the file and put back into lua.zip. Then rename it back to "lua.nx2". After doing this, saving and loading started to work again for me. This does appear to have fixed the issue. Though it's worth being aware that this undoes the fix that caused the bug in the first place, and risks allowing code execution by exploting an overflow issue in the way the game handles save names. Make sure you're using trusted mods if using this fix.