Have you tried a VPN?

@cfm I'm having the same problem, i strugling to create a lobby and join games, i can't play anymore because my game stuck in "Connecting"

I am trying play FAF on the client which I have just installed on Windows 11. I am currently on a laptop. Whenever I try and play in offline mode this error comes up: Client Version: 2026.7.0 java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe" (in directory "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1112) at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1046) at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceLaunchService.launch(ForgedAllianceLaunchService.java:161) at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceLaunchService.launchOfflineGame(ForgedAllianceLaunchService.java:49) at com.faforever.client.game.GameRunner.lambda$startOffline$1(GameRunner.java:556) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncSupply.run(CompletableFuture.java:1789) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncSupply.exec(CompletableFuture.java:1781) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:511) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.topLevelExec(ForkJoinPool.java:1450) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:2019) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:187) Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method) at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:485) at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:146) at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1078) ... 10 more And also, when I try and login with browser, nothing happens.

One other detail: I installed SupCom Forged Alliance first, then at some later point I uninstalled OneDrive, and then recently I installed FAF Client, so OneDrive was long gone but it seems like SupCom Forged Alliance used the OneDrive path for its files, and even when OneDrive was uninstalled, the file paths it used were still there, probably because Win11 didn't move all the stuff and delete those folders, it just kept a shortcut to those folders, or redirected to them. My desktop is still :\Users\me\OneDrive\Desktop. Perhaps this issue is caused by file permissions/properties trouble or shenanigans from installing SupCom Forged Alliance using folders that OneDrive needs to access.

Okay, this hasn't been working for the last week, and I spent most of today trying to fix it. About 5 minutes after creating this thread, the map generator downloaded and worked, lol. Fastest tech support in the universe. Overall, I don't think it's related to anything I did. The rating issue still persists, but since it's not constant, it's not critical. Just in case, I won't delete this thread, as I'm still interested in finding out what was causing the error, and maybe it will be useful to someone in the future.

Ive had this a couple of times before. Not with tmm, but when leaving games (im assuming the tmm game got cancelled because of connections or crash, so it booted you into the main menu) So I'd say its more of a legendary tier bug unstead of mythic

I see XACT error, please refer to the FAQs

@galactozavr3000 https://github.com/Flowseal/zapret-discord-youtube/releases/tag/1.9.8c https://github.com/Flowseal/zapret-discord-youtube/issues/8405?ysclid=mmc8zf5cpu385516727

Please share the related game and client log. (How?)

I cant login either. I click login in the client and nothing happens. No browser is launched very weird. Then I clicked my bookmarked link to login and I get this message. [image: 1777779834211-screenshot-2026-05-02-214302.png]

@Sheikah Thanks, my friend was a little inattentive.

The other option is antivirus stopping the child process of the browser

Yes, tried that and it was still the same. I figured out this is not related to mods, because I am running game fine with mods. For example now I was having issues connecting and I disabled WindowedLobby and it helped to get game started, also before disabling WindowedLobby helped to get games started more times than with WindowedLobby but still randomly I get either grey screen or I am stuck at connecting, even after disabling ipv6, I was stuck in loading screen.

@Sheikah said: Delete the client installation directory and reinstall thank you ! It worked but uninstalling didn't do it, i had to delete all data files. It was short lived because first game launched, second one had a grey screen, i found another thread and they recommended to delete game.prefs file , I did and it worked, just then it was pain to copy all the important settings back.