hi all hope u can help
i installed freelancer on my msi u135 netbook along with FLMM and a few mods, the game loads and runs fine but when i have to go to a menu such as buying ships or reading jobs board the graphics go nuts, il try to be as clear as possible, basically it seams to stretch out all the words and drag them all over the screen basically making it unreadable and therefore unplayable, almost everything else is glitch free and the space battles are perfectly playable.
other ppl on the web claim to run this game on there netbooks without this issue, though the few who have mentioned it seamed to fix it but neglect to share how they did it .
anyway i hope you can help as i realy want to be able to play this game on my netbook. also i can post a screen shot of the glitch if it helps, my netbook specs are as folllows
intel atom n450
1g ram
ive tried to be as detalied as possible but if u need more info i will be happy to provide if it will help

i look forward to your replys
many thanks )

I have the same problem. The graphics chipset is a GMA3500 on a HP2100.

It looks like the vertex or index buffering is messed up when certain fonts are rendered. This is most noticable on the equipment/ship dealer screens but it effects others to.

I haven't found a solution although I haven't looked very hard at what the dx stuff is doing.

I've used both 800x600 and 1024x600 (which is the default screen resolution).

It happens in both windowed and full screen mode.

It happens with both vanilla and discovery.

Nope, I think he has a different problem.

Screenshots won't harm, but I guess how it does look at your screen.

IIRC someone stated it ahs to do with the intel chip set which should be a totally rubbish....

Aye, I've had the same problem before mate. I tried running it on 7 before, and it seems it didn't quite like it.... whenever I opened a menu, it just streched the text all over the screen. Strangely enough, when I hovered over a button, the text returned to normal.

My fix? Back to XP again.

EDIT: Back then, I had an Intel chip built in. Still don't get why it's normal with XP.

heres a screen shot i took last night, imagine this but with all the txt jumping around, im running it in 800x600. there is a way of editing the ini files to make it 1024x600 (default neetbook size) which i have tried but it didnt make any difference. im gonna try updating the graphics driver but i think its on the most recent version, also i dont know if this makes any fiffrence but acording to my system i have DX11?! i dont know much about direct x but jsut though i would mention it.
hope this works not quite sure how to upload photos

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Did you try that fix? You might have to take ownership of that font folder so that you can do it though. I have Win seven also but my freelancer is not on it but an older xp machine.

But I thought I'd try to help you out some.

Thanks for the screen shot, Miyri.

I think that you are on the right track with the DX11 vs DX8/DX9 switching. This is a common problem for Vista users, and a less-common-but-still-an-issue for Win 7 users.

Try disabling Aero:

- Right-click the Desktop, choose Personalize, then choose one of the Basic Themes. That should turn off Aero overall.

- Or, to disable Aero only when running Freelancer: Change the Freelancer icon to "Disable desktop composition".




I am very curious about this... I hope that you get it to work, and please let us know your results!

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Just a note, I had a brain fart and I have a GMA3150 not a GMA3500...