MostlyHrmless

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.

I had this problem, and found a fix/workaround:

Uninstall FAF Client
Uninstall SupCom Forged Alliance
Uninstall OneDrive

Reinstall SupCom Forged Alliance
Reinstall FAF Client

My results: I got the warning, but I was able to change the Mods and Maps directory and it did not recurse to the OneDrive path.

I setup my laptop forever ago and installed SupCom Forged Alliance, in Steam, first thing, and I installed FAF later on. I'm assuming OneDrive was already installed, and I'm assuming that's why SupCom Forged Alliance put the user directory in OneDrive, or some combination of that.

This worked, Thanks!!

When I try to run .10, I get a startup error (error text posted at the bottom of message)

This always happens with .10

I've tried:

Download installer from the site, and install
Manually uninstall FAF, and run the installer downloaded from the site
Install 2022.8, and upgrade to 2022.10 from inside FAF

I always get the startup error when I try to launch 10

.9 worked fine, and I can run .8 just fine, too.

Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks-

Information:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home
Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621

faf_windows-x64_2022_10_0

Error message:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application init method
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:896)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$2(LauncherImpl.java:196)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Failed to parse configuration class [com.faforever.client.FafClientApplication]; nested exception is org.springframework.context.annotation.ConflictingBeanDefinitionException: Annotation-specified bean name 'mapFilterController' for bean class [com.faforever.client.game.MapFilterController] conflicts with existing, non-compatible bean definition of same name and class [com.faforever.client.filter.MapFilterController]
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.parse(ConfigurationClassParser.java:188)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.processConfigBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:331)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanDefinitionRegistry(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:247)
at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:311)
at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:112)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:746)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:564)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:734)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:408)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:308)
at org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder.run(SpringApplicationBuilder.java:164)
at com.faforever.client.FafClientApplication.init(FafClientApplication.java:108)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:825)
... 2 more
Caused by: org.springframework.context.annotation.ConflictingBeanDefinitionException: Annotation-specified bean name 'mapFilterController' for bean class [com.faforever.client.game.MapFilterController] conflicts with existing, non-compatible bean definition of same name and class [com.faforever.client.filter.MapFilterController]
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner.checkCandidate(ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner.java:349)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner.doScan(ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner.java:287)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScanAnnotationParser.parse(ComponentScanAnnotationParser.java:128)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.doProcessConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:295)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:249)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.parse(ConfigurationClassParser.java:206)
at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.parse(ConfigurationClassParser.java:174)
... 14 more

@jip I know there are chat commands for this, but a rank total and quality number displayed for everyone in the lobby would be really helpful in settling discussions about balance.

Thanks!