@Melanol

Your report is in the queue and Moderators are aware of it.

If you get harassed via PM, you can report it and I can assure you that is being taken care of, because such personal things have high priority. You have not reported such thing.

I appreciate your suggestion about implementing an anonymous mode for matchmaking. If you are interested in contributing to the project, I welcome your input on GitHub.

The overall toxicity in FAF has decreased in recent years. Sensationalist thread titles are out of place.

If you have any further concerns about your report, please don't hesitate to contact me and I can look into it for you.

Find out what kind of error you have, by searching up your error text from the following list. (Copy the whole phrase.)

Common errors phrases:

RuntimeException: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Tag mismatch!

SocketException: Connection reset
or
WebClientRequestException: Connection timed out

TimeoutException: Did not observe any item or terminal signal within 60000ms in 'sinkOneMulticast'

AccessDeniedException
or
IOException: Cannot run program

java.lang.RuntimeException: Forged Alliance Crashed with exit code 1

Alliance Crashed with exit code -1073741515
or
Forged Alliance terminated with exit code -1073741515

java.io.FileNotFoundException

Could not extract value with pattern 'code=([^ &]+)

FileSystemException

cartographic.fx reason: unknown error

LoginException: Could not reach server

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Solutions: :

1. Reason:

The client is unable to establish a secure connection to the content server for downloading the game files.

• Disable security software for testing purpose
• Check firewall settings, if it blocks anything related to secure connection/FAF Launcher

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2. Reason:

Something is blocking the client to have access to the internet, or you have a very unstable connection.

• Check if your internet connection is stable
• Check if firewall is blocking the access
• Disable security software for testing purpose
• Try a VPN from a different country

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3. Reason:

Client can not detect that you are logged in from browser

• Change default web browser.

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4. Reason

Program is blocked or has wrong user rights

• Make sure security software is not blocking the client
• Make sure your windows account has rights to run the software
• Remove "C:\ProgramData\FAForever" folder; and reinstall FAF
• For testing purpose, run the client with admin rights.

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5. Reason

Some error caused the crash

• Get the last log from "C:\ProgramData\FAForever\logs"
• Create own thread, explain when the error happens and upload the .log https://forum.faforever.com/category/4/i-need-help

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6. Reason

Something is not working with your Supreme Commander.

• Start Supreme Commander via Steam/GOG, to download any missing files or additional needed software, then start a skirmish mission to create a Supreme Commander profile

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7. Reason

Files do not exist.

• Make sure nothing blocks your access to the FAF client or Supreme Commander folder
• Reinstall FAF client and Supreme Commander

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8. Reason

Problem with the current browser to processed certain information

• Change default web browser.
• Install another browser like Firefox, Chrome, etc.

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9. Reason

Another process is blocking the files

• restart the PC

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10. Reason

Unknown, yet.

Reinstall FAF, supreme commander

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11. Reason

• On your end, something is blocking the internet access from/to the FAF client
• You have no internet
• Login server is down

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If you need any guidance, please make your own thread here:

https://forum.faforever.com/category/4/i-need-help

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Notes TODO:

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4283/cannot-connect-to-some-of-the-players-solution

add command to undo it:

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4532/cannot-launch-supcom

You can start the coop/campaign maps via the FAF client:

source: https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18413

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Starting the campaign offline with save/load

Thanks to @deletethis for his following visual guide:

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@deletethis said in Playing the campaign:

...I'll provide a visual guide.

Begin with going to your FAF folder. If you are lost, open the FAF client, click on the 'hamburger' button (I put a 1 there for clarity), then click on 'Show data folder'.

This will open explorer and highlight the FAF folder-open it.

Proceed to the bin folder.

Right click on the faf exe, then click on create shortcut.

This will now create a shortcut to FAF to play offline-you can move this anywhere you want (for example on the desktop). Either way, if you now want to play the coop maps offline, you'll need to edit this shortcut, so right click on it and select Properties.

Add /init init_coop.lua to the end of the target like so:

That's it! You can now play downloaded coop maps by opening the game from this shortcut and going into skirmish, where you'll be able to choose the map, faction, options, and whatever else you want.

As an aside, while you do start these maps from skirmish, you actually load the saves from campaign-it's a bit weird but not too much of a problem at the end of the day.

@deletethis said in Playing the campaign:

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If you are unable to progress in one sitting, there might be something wrong on your end-make sure you are using the latest version of the coop map from the client.

To check, go to the FAF map folder:

Enter the highlighted folder:

Look for x1ca_coop_001.vxxxx

If you see v0027, that's already the last one. Make sure you don't have other ones around in the folder as you might pick an older one by mistake (manually delete or move those folders somewhere else if you want to keep them).

Again, you should be able to complete this map in one sitting, as I have tested it.

As an aside, when launching the client offline, you will only see the coop maps you downloaded from the FAF client beforehand.

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source: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4285/playing-the-campaign

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If you need any guidance, please make your own thread here:

https://forum.faforever.com/category/4/i-need-help

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TODO:

make the map related thing/version stuff more user friendly to read

Also, note to myself. The images are bugged with some weird confusing character. Need to redo them later

There will be weather seasons from now on.

Winter comes with snow avalanche passing throw the map. Spring smelts it and creates rivers which sweeps everything away in his way. Summer will drain rivers and seas. Autumn comes with a tornado.

That is the revenge of the lobby sim. It developed an artificial intelligence and adapted its own code to overcome itself from being depended on players hosting.

From now on, the lobby sim fulfills itself its destiny by existing between the shadow realm and reality to avoid being started.

Because that would kill the lobby sim mind. Exist or not to exist, that is the question. Black mirror is written all over this spooky lobby.

I like the system very much so far. The overall presentation is high quality with all the stats that are getting presented, and it makes me want to play more.

The No Shared 4v4 can be removed honestly, because everyone plays the shared thing.

Attention should shift to the disconnection and dodging behavior of some players to avoid specific maps/players. One possibly fix, would be, not to show the map/players in the lobby before you are in the game.

UEF T3 Battleship (Summit Class) - Seeing that unit in action with his tremendous firepower and range is just majestic.

They were available for several months some time ago. For every one no-share game, there were several thousand games full share games played. No one bothered with no-share in queue, so it was removed.

Because of the current events, such decision is necessary and a good thing. You can still have your politic discussion in the specific channel with all the people and different opinions you want.

At last, people want just come together in FAF and have fun playing their games with friends. I suggest to every player who wants to talk mainly about current ongoing politic events to go to websites which focus mainly on that topic.

Furthermore, the game titles were better the last weeks. I am not sure if Moderators/Admins took any steps to decrease it, or people were done cringing and gave up.

Occasionally there is some weird title or even chats in the lobby, but much better nowadays.

Verify that the issue is related to your sound, and make sure the game does not crash with disabled sound. Make sure the issue is not caused by a UI or SIM mod.

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How to disable the sound properly:

FAF Launcher ⇾ Options ⇾ Forged Alliance Forever ⇾ Command Line Format for Executable ⇒ add /nosound behind the "%s"

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Possible fix:

1. Uninstall FAF and Supreme Commander completely and remove any leftover files, so we can begin with a 100% working environment.

Make sure no leftover files are in: (Path may be different, if you have the GOG version, or you have selected a different installation path.)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

C:\Users\%username%\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

C:\ProgramData\FAForever

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\

2. Install the latest release from FAF from here: https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases
   Install Supreme Commander via Steam or GOG

Try if the sound issue is gone with a fresh installation, if not then:

• Make sure your windows is up-to-date.
• Set your sound card to stereo only.
• Make sure your sound card is using 44100 Hz / 16 bit.
• Try with 44100 Hz / 24 bit as well, if 16 bit crashes
• Disable all sound enhancements for your current sound card.
• Disable every sound device, that is not related to your current sound card (Restart PC).

For example - I have a USB sound card Focusrite and a ton of other stuff. I have disabled the NIVIDIA and Waves SoundGrid; For testing purpose, you disable everything except your sound card.

If you are not using your on-board sound card, then you need to deactivate the on-board sound via BIOS. Consult google or your main board manual to do so.

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3. If it is still not working - I know it can be frustrating, but it boils now down to his:

• Try a different/new USB sound card, if you still have sound issues, then reinstall Windows, do not install any third-party software (maybe insert_random_software causes the sound error somehow). Go only with FAF and Supreme Commander and hope for the best.

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Conclusion:

No one knows why this error happens and why there is no guarantee fix for it after so many years. It can be related to so many things, which makes it is quite impossible to know what causes it, except it has to do with the sound card or other software that touches the sound somehow.

Usually, step 1 and 2 will fix the issue for most people, but unfortunately, sometimes this is not the case, there is nothing you can do except step 3.

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If you need any guidance, please make your own thread here:

https://forum.faforever.com/category/4/i-need-help

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Additional note:

There are headphones or sound monitors which come with their own software or your PC already has some pre-installed software for sound enhancements, 96000+ Hz / 32 bit or other stuff that could cause the issue. For testing purpose, just uninstall the software and only use the drivers.

Also, try "regular" pair of headphones/monitors that plug in the stereo output, as opposed to those using USB.

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When you have found any information that could possibly solve the sound issue, which is not listed here, please PM me about, and I will add it. Thanks in advance.

I think 'top players of the month' would be more suitable, because if you plan to do this every week, it will consume a lot of time, and if you have other responsibilities as well and a real life, the manual labor will tank a lot of time.

If you manage to automate the whole process via statistics of the players, then it is a different story. Also, per season is more than good enough as well, if per month is too stressful. (Player with most games played in MM, match of the season, fun facts, the biggest win streak, etc.)

Integrating the latest FAF content from verified FAF streamers is a nice idea.

Making the news section dynamic to have sort of changing "streams" or "nodes" sounds promising and like a lot of work.

We need to be sure it is the same error, please remove all old logs - recreate the problem, post new log - Thanks in advance

I like the cloud stuff, which feels on par with their race behavior, their artillery have those 'corrosion clouds' as well. Giving them the ability to do damage over time as well, instead "kill everything in sight when x has no AA" feels more natural to the game flow. This would also result to give them slightly more HP.

I am looking forward, what other players are saying to those ideas.

@immortal-d said in More specific filter for personal statistics, either site leaderboard or ingame viewer:

but not for just the current year.

About in game viewer: You can search for any timeframe with the client, did you miss that, or did you mean something else?

With adv. search you can even add certain criteria, it should cover all needs.

I am happy you fixed it - Unfortunately, we can not fix those issues who solely are caused by the network environment of the user.

Try to change default browser, and the log in should work again.

For testing purpose, disable security software or/and try a VPN.

That is unfortunate, can you tell which OS and which security solution you are using, and which steps you have tried so solve that issue so far?

@magge said in Solutions for common errors with the FAF client launcher or supreme commander:

Reason:

The client is unable to establish a secure connection to the content server for downloading the game files.

Disable security software for testing purpose
Check firewall settings, if it blocks anything related to secure connection/FAF Launcher

Unfortunately, the game desyncs at ~14m, tried it several times. But looks super promising so far.