I had a Virgin Media technician come to my home and I showed him the issues. We even confirmed that it must be related to the Virgin Media internet connection by showing that everything was fine when using a WiFi hotspot via mobile (I was able to reproduce the issue elsewhere too). He changed my Hub to the new Hub 5 instead of the previous Hub 4 and improved my coax connection signal generally, but that did not fix it. He escalated it then to the next level.

Today they seem to have finally resolved it. @HavikAdama how about you?

I had a Virgin Media technician come to my home and I showed him the issues. We even confirmed that it must be related to the Virgin Media internet connection by showing that everything was fine when using a WiFi hotspot via mobile (I was able to reproduce the issue elsewhere too). He changed my Hub to the new Hub 5 instead of the previous Hub 4 and improved my coax connection signal generally, but that did not fix it. He escalated it then to the next level.

Today they seem to have finally resolved it. @HavikAdama how about you?

Oh no, looks like this is some sort of weird issue with my ISP (Virgin Media in the UK). If I use a VPN all these problems vanish (and immediately come back again if I don't use the VPN). I also noticed other issues during my regular work today as suddenly certain SSH connections would get a connection timeout as well.

Is it may be possible to display the currently available range of an individual Mercy via LUA scripting? That would already help.

Since yesterday afternoon (UTC) or so I am having issues with the FAF client. Sometimes it times out just when trying to log in

;just now I got a message saying

for example; when trying to join a game it often takes tens of seconds before the game actually launches (and even then connection facilitation might not work) - or it might time out once again with

(looks like an error message translation is missing within the FAF client).

Are there any known issues on FAF's side? I asked around in-game yesterday and there were others confirming these issues (but I could not find anything on Discord or here in the forum).

client.log

I see, thank you :). And I agree, it's just annoying and not critical.

I've mentioned this already to @Jip on Discord, though since any Discord discussion is fleeting I thought I'd mention it here instead. Basically almost every time (like 9 out of 10 games) I exit the game, the game does not properly exit. I see the cursor and a black screen and I have to Alt+Tab out of the game, since there is an "Unhandled Exception" window in the background:

This is the full text of the exception:

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0090994a
    attempted to read memory at 0x00000020

Program : C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe
Cmd line arguments : /init init.lua /nobugreport /log C:\ProgramData\FAForever\logs\game_16142459.log /gpgnet 127.0.0.1:51333 /mean 1151.85 /deviation 108.829 /savereplay gpgnet://127.0.0.1:60904/16142459/Spooky__.SCFAreplay /country GB /numgames 135 /numgames 131

Callstack:
	Unknown symbol (address 0x0090994a)
	Unknown symbol (address 0x0083ec10)

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warning: Connection dialogue opening due to disconnection by players:
info: terminated 
debug: Current gametime: 00:56:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:57:00
info: Block is too late ! 
warning: Connection dialogue opening due to disconnection by players:
info: terminated 
debug: Current gametime: 00:57:30
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00162) supplied in a pose update.
debug: Current gametime: 00:58:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:58:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:59:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:59:30
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warning: Connection dialogue opening due to disconnection by players:
info: send Ptr: BADC0002 
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info: terminated 
info: Sending game result: 10 victory 10
info: GAMERESULT : \000victory 10
info: Sending game result: 12 victory 10
info: GAMERESULT : \000victory 10
info: Sending stats: {"stats":…}
warning: Connection dialogue opening due to disconnection by players:
info: Block is too late ! 
info: terminated 
info: syncing max ping markers: \00015
info: Block is too late ! 
info: terminated 
debug: OpenMovie /movies/menu_background.sfd: 412234
debug: Preparing movie /movies/menu_background.sfd: 412234
debug: Preparing movie /movies/menu_background.sfd: 412234
debug: Preparing movie /movies/menu_background.sfd: 412234
debug: Preparing movie /movies/menu_background.sfd: 412234
debug: Preparing movie /movies/menu_background.sfd: 412234
debug: Preparing movie /movies/menu_background.sfd: 412234
info: /init
debug: Playing movie c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\supreme commander forged alliance\movies\menu_background.sfd: 412234
info: ren_Oblivion false
info: ren_oblivion true
info: ren_ui false

(I removed the game stats JSON from the exception)

Everything is normal otherwise I think. The game's result is properly transmitted as far as I can tell for instance.

Any pointers to what could be going wrong here?

@blackyps said in Advanced Grouping Mod:

That is certainly easier than troubleshooting your old mod

idk, as a developer I wouldn't mind devling into LUA scripting for FA and see what would need to be changed. Seems actually more sensible than trying to remove functionality from an existing mod.

Thank you :). Though I would still prefer to only use the AdvancedGrouping mod as I don't want to clutter FAF with things that I don't really need.

Oh cool, thank you! Is there any documentation about its features? Looking at its LUA files it seems to come with a lot

Back in the day (like.. 10 years ago) before my FA hiatus I used to use the "Advanced Grouping" UI mod (among others). This mod allows you to split a selected group of units into evenly separated sub-groups. So if you have 9 units selected and you press Ctrl+Alt+3 then Alt+1, Alt+2 and Alt+3 will select 3 different units respectively. Quite a useful addition when dealing with larger armies.

However, unfortunately the mod does not work with FAF. If I install my backup copy that I still have manually in C:\ProgramData\FAForever\user\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\mods and launch a game with it enabled, the game only renders the first frame after zooming in to the ACU at launch and then renders no updates anymore. I can still hear everything and can still interact with everything - I just don't see anything.

I was wondering if anyone has a version that still works with FAF? Or may be some one can help me figure out what needs to be changed?

I can provide the current version and upload it here, I hope the original author would not mind (Goom).