@sheikah I uninstalled the game, manually deleted the FAF folder in ProgramData, re-installed the latest client downloaded today, logged in, selected Play, Custom Games, Create Game, and I'm getting the same error.
Please advise. Thank you.
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2021-07-01 19:42:01.208 WARN 12084 --- [background-preinit] o.s.h.c.j.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder : For Jackson Kotlin classes support please add "com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-kotlin" to the classpath
2021-07-01 19:42:01.249 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Starting application using Java 15.0.1 on NOV2019 with PID 12084 (started by Dadmin in C:\Program Files\Downlord's FAF Client)
2021-07-01 19:42:01.249 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : The following profiles are active: prod,windows
2021-07-01 19:42:02.096 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] trationDelegate$BeanPostProcessorChecker : Bean 'asyncConfig' of type [com.faforever.client.config.AsyncConfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$780cbfdc] is not eligible for getting processed by all BeanPostProcessors (for example: not eligible for auto-proxying)
2021-07-01 19:42:02.141 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] trationDelegate$BeanPostProcessorChecker : Bean 'cacheConfig' of type [com.faforever.client.config.CacheConfig$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$d94b7322] is not eligible for getting processed by all BeanPostProcessors (for example: not eligible for auto-proxying)
2021-07-01 19:42:02.303 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] c.f.c.preferences.PreferencesService : Switching FA Forever logging configuration to INFO
2021-07-01 19:42:02.324 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] o.s.s.c.ThreadPoolTaskScheduler : Initializing ExecutorService 'taskScheduler'
2021-07-01 19:42:02.765 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] c.f.c.map.generator.MapGeneratorService : Deleting leftover generated maps...
2021-07-01 19:42:02.840 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] com.faforever.client.update.Version : The current application version is: 1.4.7
2021-07-01 19:42:02.847 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] c.f.c.update.ClientUpdateServiceImpl : Current version: 1.4.7
2021-07-01 19:42:02.853 INFO 12084 --- [pool-3-thread-3] c.f.client.update.CheckForUpdateTask : Checking for client update
2021-07-01 19:42:02.864 INFO 12084 --- [pool-3-thread-4] c.f.c.update.CheckForBetaUpdateTask : Checking for client update (pre-release channel)
2021-07-01 19:42:03.177 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX-Launcher] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Started application in 2.717 seconds (JVM running for 3.835)
2021-07-01 19:42:03.711 INFO 12084 --- [ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-19] com.faforever.client.update.Version : fromVersion '1.4.6' is not newer than toVersion '1.4.7'. No update is required.
2021-07-01 19:42:03.721 INFO 12084 --- [Thread-12] c.f.client.remote.FafServerAccessorImpl : Trying to connect to FAF server at lobby.faforever.com:8001
2021-07-01 19:42:03.920 INFO 12084 --- [Thread-12] c.f.client.remote.FafServerAccessorImpl : FAF server connection established
2021-07-01 19:42:04.088 INFO 12084 --- [Thread-12] c.f.client.remote.FafServerAccessorImpl : FAF session initiated, session ID: 3240311963
2021-07-01 19:42:06.712 INFO 12084 --- [Thread-12] c.f.client.remote.FafServerAccessorImpl : FAF login succeeded
2021-07-01 19:42:07.161 INFO 12084 --- [JavaFX Application Thread] com.faforever.client.update.Version : fromVersion '1.4.7' is not newer than toVersion '1.4.7'. No update is required.
2021-07-01 19:43:18.448 INFO 12084 --- [pool-3-thread-12] c.f.c.patch.GameBinariesUpdateTaskImpl : Updating binaries to 3720
2021-07-01 19:43:18.703 INFO 12084 --- [Thread-41] c.f.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl : Starting ICE adapter with command: [c:\program files\downlord's faf client\jre\bin\java.exe, -jar, C:\Program Files\Downlord's FAF Client\natives\faf-ice-adapter.jar, --id, 289366, --login, bofhlusr, --rpc-port, 57367, --gpgnet-port, 34284]
2021-07-01 19:43:20.276 INFO 12084 --- [Thread-41] c.f.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService : Starting Forged Alliance with command: [C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe, /init, init.lua, /nobugreport, /log, C:\ProgramData\FAForever\logs\game_14824042.log, /gpgnet, 127.0.0.1:34284, /mean, 1125.6, /deviation, 390.115, /savereplay, gpgnet://127.0.0.1:54804/14824042/bofhlusr.SCFAreplay, /country, US, /numgames, 2] in directory: C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin
2021-07-01 19:43:20.300 WARN 12084 --- [Thread-41] com.faforever.client.game.GameService : Game could not be started
java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: com.github.nocatch.NoCatchException: 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
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.encodeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:314)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:319)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniAccept.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:718)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:506)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:2137)
at com.faforever.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl.lambda$start$8(IceAdapterImpl.java:229)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832)
Caused by: com.github.nocatch.NoCatchException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe" (in directory "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin"): CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:64)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:500)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:481)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.wrapException(NoCatch.java:61)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.noCatch(NoCatch.java:104)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.noCatch(NoCatch.java:82)
at com.faforever.client.game.GameService.lambda$startGame$40(GameService.java:641)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniAccept.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:714)
... 4 common frames omitted
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
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1142)
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1073)
at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService.launch(ForgedAllianceService.java:129)
at com.faforever.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService.startGame(ForgedAllianceService.java:74)
at com.faforever.client.game.GameService.lambda$startGame$39(GameService.java:641)
at com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.noCatch(NoCatch.java:100)
... 7 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:483)
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:158)
at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1109)
... 12 common frames omitted
2021-07-01 19:43:20.415 WARN 12084 --- [Thread-12] c.f.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl : Ignoring call to ICE adapter as we are not connected: setIceServers([[{credentialType=token, urls=[turn:faforever.com?transport=tcp, turn:faforever.com?transport=udp, stun:faforever.com], credential=heu1eQWrnCEVuuDT9/YnD6bDXVw=, username=1625280201:289366}, {credentialType=token, urls=[turn:faf.mabula.net?transport=tcp, turn:faf.mabula.net?transport=udp, stun:faf.mabula.net], credential=UvU4vOd6IstVxRuZElaSw0PEoNk=, username=1625280201:289366}]])
2021-07-01 19:43:20.517 INFO 12084 --- [Thread-41] c.f.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl : ICE adapter terminated normally