Issues launching ED

[Aewarin Jameson]

Anyone else having problems ?

• Server status: OK
• Client version: 2016.03.29.101083 (fresh DL of the installer)
• Validate game files (via options) reports: Incorrect manifest checksum
• Clicking "play" does nothing.

Client log:

Spoiler

20160413/143822: { "action" : "PFCFail", "project" : "FORC-FDEV-DH-1000", "date" : "20160413", "time" : "143822" } ;

 

[SystematicChaos]

"Clicking "play" does nothing."
Have you tried right clicking on the launcher icon and selecting "run as administrator"?

 

[kilvenny]

Validate - try again
repeat

If you Google that's worked for some people, if all else fails re-install

 

[cmdr_Havalok]

Checksum error indicates you have a mismatch between what is installed and what should be installed. The wrong version or a corrupted file would be common causes for these errors. I would re-install.

 

[Tenebrous]

I fixed my checksum error by emptying my Internet Explorer cache. It appears it was caching the manifest file.

 

[Fox White]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=242765&page=2&p=3770078#post3770078

Spent 2 days without elite working on this problem a few days ago. I assume I was the very worst case but I had to change the language settings to use 32 bit then I deleted everything and did a clean install. 64 bit did not work at first, because of black computer magic I had to install 32 bit before I could install 64....

Best of luck to you

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Thanks for the replies.

Finally figured it out - I don't use uPnp (can't actually - firewall doesn't support it) and after a reinstall the .ini file was overwritten. Game tries to use it - failed - wouldn't connect to game servers and just sat there. Changed the .ini file to use port forwarding and I am back in.

Another call for in-game support with a test button would be nice.

Cheers