<![CDATA[Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!!]]>Everytime I go to launch a game my whole screen instantly just turns gray and all that I can do is close the game. Ill include the log if that helps anyone who know what they are looking at. Thank you in advance!

game_26215279.log

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9783/gray-screen-on-game-launch.-cant-playRSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 13:53:36 GMTSun, 04 Jan 2026 03:19:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:12:41 GMT]]>My hero! that seems to have worked. I just deleted any gameprefs related files and I was finally able to load into a game

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71175https://forum.faforever.com/post/71175Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:12:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:41:08 GMT]]>Lets try: make a backup of the Game.prefs, then remove it. Start FAF and try to play a game. The prefs-file gets automatically created with default values.
If it should still not work, then share the game.log, please. Perhaps that will point to something.

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71174https://forum.faforever.com/post/71174Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:41:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:34:26 GMT]]>@magge 2560X1440

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71172https://forum.faforever.com/post/71172Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:34:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:32:56 GMT]]>What is your display resolution?

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71171https://forum.faforever.com/post/71171Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:32:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:14:27 GMT]]>It doesnt seem like that solved it either

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71169https://forum.faforever.com/post/71169Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:14:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:04:27 GMT]]>If you already havent, try enforcing windowed mode upon start-up (I cannot remember the command line, Im afraid). This game hates modern full screen.

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71165https://forum.faforever.com/post/71165Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:04:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:07:40 GMT]]>The same issue doesn't occur if I play the base game. Only when I'm playing it through FAF

FAF prefs.txt
I tried to edit where the custom resolution is right under the default setting is to what I have now. It didnt seem to make any difference. I also dont know if there was anything more I had to do to apply those changes. My pc refresh rate is also set to 164.96 if that affects anything

]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71101https://forum.faforever.com/post/71101Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:07:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:45:59 GMT]]>@magge please consider using environment variables

%appdata%\Forged Alliance Forever
]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71093https://forum.faforever.com/post/71093Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:45:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gray Screen on game launch. Cant Play!!! on Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:02:28 GMT]]>Does it happen when you start via Steam/GOG too?
Does the in-game resolution align with your monitor resolution in the Game.prefs file?

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Forged Alliance Forever
]]>https://forum.faforever.com/post/71092https://forum.faforever.com/post/71092Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:02:28 GMT