Freelancer Support

XeNd, thank you IT’S ALIVE !!!..IT WORKS and with my CD product code I can play on line…. very cool. I can’t thank you enough.

P.S. NOT COOL who wanted and tried to hack my “Starport” account by trying to change my password!!!
IP address162.158.154.116 your in London UK in between Trump St. and Cheapside…I live in the U.S.A… Not Cool At All you wanker.

Solution will be to trigger a UAC prompt with this command

“dism /Online /enable-feature /all /FeatureName:“DirectPlay” /NoRestart”

But have yet to test.
I will fire up a VM later.

I’m not convinced it’s my card. Overwatch at 300 or so fps at ultra pushes my card to 80 degrees, at 94-96% load. It’s pushing my card way more than FL is, and no TDRs. I don’t know what it is.

Unfortunately, only the image is there - you’ll have to the edit the script to add it. Before that, though, add it to the room: edit [c]DATA\UNIVERSE\IW04\BASES\ROOMS\iw04_01_planetscape.ini[/c], duplicate the [c]ForSaleShipPlacement[/c] section and change [c]2[/c] to [c]3[/c]:

[ForSaleShipPlacement] name = X/Shipcentre/02 [ForSaleShipPlacement] name = X/Shipcentre/03 ```Now for the tricky part, actually adding that new placement. Grab my [dethorn](http://freelancer.adoxa.vze.com/tools.html#dethorn) tool (hope you're familiar with the command line), copy it to [c]EXE[/c], cd to [c]DATA\SCRIPTS\BASES[/c] and run [c]..\..\..\dethorn pl_11_pad_hardpoint_01.thn[/c]. Now you'll have [c]pl_11_pad_hardpoint_01.lua[/c], so edit that, search for [c]Shipcentre[/c] ([c]02[/c] is first), copy that entire section, rename to [c]3[/c] and change its position & orientation. IIRC, you should just be able to rename [c]lua[/c] to [c]thn[/c] and re-enter the launchpad to test it. The ship cushion (the animation that appears to be holding up the ship) is in [c]pl_11_pad_ambi_day_01.thn[/c]. Good luck!

Laz wrote:
Have you tried deleting any saves or restart.fl in the my games folder, assuming there are any still there that is.

Legend!

Deleting the restart.fl worked this time. The bizarre thing was this was after a clean installation so there was no saved games to speak of and I had removed that directory before.

Anywho it works now so thanks J.R and Laz. Greatly appreciated for the help 🙂

So after going through just about every suggestion to get this working. I fixed it. And it’s very very simple. Go to programs and features from your control panel. then click “Turn Windows Features On or Off” and you will need to check the box called “Legacy Components”… WINDOWS FEATURES ARE WHERE IT’S AT… It’s not a permissions issue.

I’d assume, loading the autosave would crash your game.

The reason might be, that the map / visit data in your autosave is different, from the status in your game.

A possible work around might be to keep you char in a system you don’t change.

I realize this is an old topic, but my 270x died a while ago where I did not have the problem and now with the rx480 I discovered today that I am in the same boat.

Having the rendering pipeline hooked makes it easer, but it still took me hours to find a solution. I don’t know why Freelancer thinks it can’t get the maximum texture size, but that is the problem. It then sets it hard coded to 128. The texture size is correctly fetched from d3d8, but somehow this does not matter for FL.

If you patch it with a hex editor at offset 1ad6e which has the values “be 80 00” and change them to “be 00 20” you set it to 8192 and the problem is gone. At least I did not notice anything problematic, yet.

Thanks again FL for stealing over half of a day from me 🙂

Maybe someone should add this to the 101 list of offsets.

Your best bet is to patch freelancer to disable IPv6
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/wiki/index.php/Disabling_IPv6

Just to make sure I was able to provide some help…
Does the database fix your issues ?

You don’t need much machine to run a local server with only one or two players logging in. If you have an extra laptop running around connect that to your router and run the server off that.

LAN connection is much better than WiFi connect.

It’s the visual part that flickers and disappears completely at random. I can still see the menu buttons light up when I mouse over them but the mouse is basicly invisible.
Thanks for the tip tho, was worth a shot.

looks like a dll file is missing

I´m running Freelancer in Singleplayer and the Multiplayer-Client of the ENIGMA V.4 ATG-Mod on my Win7 Pro 64 Bit with NO problems at all. But since my mod includes A LOT of changes compared to vanilla, this doesn´t have to mean anything.

The Server-config is actually different due to avoid compatibility-issues with my custom-coded Server-Manager and Tools.
Here are the Server-Stats:
OS: MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU: AMD 64 3400+ (Single-core)
RAM: 2.0GB Dual-Channel DDR
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GS 7600
Note: This Machine (config) runs the Server and Client without ANY Issues… not only the Enigma-Mod but several others too.

The Intel-Onboard-Graphics are well known as a cause for problems so…
Anyways:
I don´t know why some people have such serious problems to get Freelancer running on a WIN 7 machine. The things I would recommend have been said previously in other posts. (admin-mode, AV- and firewall-settings, fix IPV6-issues and other bugs with J-Flip and such…) so I don´t think my post is any help… but to make things clear that FL can be played on Win 7 FLAWLESS.

Edit:
Maybe here is something more “usefull” 😄

There are well known issues with the (x86)-Folder and its compatibility (which I experienced myself as well a while ago). To avoid those Probs I would recommend to just NOT install Freelancer in the “pre-configed” folder but maybe on another partition.

Greetings
J.R.

Glad you got it working. Nice job tracking down the cause.

Thank you and I will give it a shot.

Thank you guys @ flac:)

You need to disable mouse integration in VirtualBox for the pointer to work correctly in Freelancer.

Thanks. Installing as Administrator worked like a charm. I installing things in the correct order helped immensely.