Game wont start

So the client runs, but the game itself just crashes instantly?

If that is the case, you should have some game_XXXXXXXX.log files in your log folder.
(found here)

That might help to understand why the game crashed

2023-11-08 12:23:44.466 INFO Created tray icon (c.faforever.iceadapter.util.TrayIcon:78)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.466 INFO Version: SNAPSHOT (com.faforever.iceadapter.IceAdapter:74)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.471 INFO Using GPGNET_PORT: 53790 (c.f.iceadapter.gpgnet.GPGNetServer:37)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.476 INFO Generated LOBBY_PORT: 25422 (c.f.iceadapter.gpgnet.GPGNetServer:42)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.477 INFO GPGNetServer started (c.f.iceadapter.gpgnet.GPGNetServer:55)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.478 INFO Creating RPC server on port 53789 (c.f.iceadapter.rpc.RPCService:40)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.480 INFO TCP Server started. (com.nbarraille.jjsonrpc.TcpServer:37)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.481 INFO RPC started (c.f.i.debug.TelemetryDebugger:113)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.575 INFO New client connected on port 53807 (c.nbarraille.jjsonrpc.SocketListener:38)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.576 INFO RPC connected (c.f.i.debug.TelemetryDebugger:114)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.577 INFO JJSON Peer listening (com.nbarraille.jjsonrpc.JJsonPeer:206)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.621 DEBUG LobbyInitMode set to normal (c.f.iceadapter.rpc.RPCHandler:56)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.621 INFO Sending Response:{"result":null,"id":0,"jsonrpc":"2.0"} (com.nbarraille.jjsonrpc.JJsonPeer:574)
2023-11-08 12:23:44.790 INFO Telemetry websocket opened (c.f.i.debug.TelemetryDebugger:55)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.373 WARN Invalid ICE server protocol: turns://fr-turn2.xirsys.com:443?transport=tcp (c.f.iceadapter.ice.GameSession:154)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.374 WARN Invalid ICE server protocol: turns://fr-turn2.xirsys.com:5349?transport=tcp (c.f.iceadapter.ice.GameSession:154)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.393 INFO Ice Servers set, total addresses: 5 (c.f.iceadapter.ice.GameSession:170)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.393 INFO Sending Response:{"result":null,"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"} (com.nbarraille.jjsonrpc.JJsonPeer:574)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.445 DEBUG Pinged fr-turn2.xirsys.com with an RTT of 41.0 (c.f.iceadapter.util.PingWrapper:49)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.685 WARN Close requested, stopping... (c.f.iceadapter.rpc.RPCHandler:139)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.685 INFO close() - stopping the adapter (com.faforever.iceadapter.IceAdapter:158)
2023-11-08 12:23:47.687 INFO GPGNetServer stopped (c.f.iceadapter.gpgnet.GPGNetServer:253)

This is what it says in the log

@ceasersmum That's an Ice-Adapter log (for debugging connection problems)
Game log should look something like this

and you can just drag/drop the file into the reply window (no quick reply) then we get the whole file.

@nex I don't have anything that looks like that

the bottom game one doesn't have anything in it

@ceasersmum Then drop the client log in here
maybe it contains some more info than what you posted

client.log.2023-11-06.0.log

client.log

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe" (in directory "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin"): CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation

Did you run the client as admin once? that might break things.
try deleting the directory C:\ProgramData\FAForever and restart the client with your current user, then try to launch a game.

@nex I did, I will give that a try

@nex Unfortunately that didn't work. thank you for helping, is there anything else I can do?

So same error?
try running the client as admin
if that works it's definitely a permission issue, if that also doesn't work then there must be something else

That worked but now its crashing

can you get a game log now?

@nex game_21158912.log

mh nothing out of the ordinary in there
try deleting/renaming your game.prefs file
(found here)

Maybe the settings are corrupt
Then try to launch the game through steam once.

@nex I tried deleting it but that didn't work game_21158904.log

@ceasersmum isn't that log older than the other one?

Did starting it through steam work normally?

@nex That was the newest log I checked the time stamp on it. Yes opens completely normally and works through steam