Just install the game via setup from CD or ISO if you have one.
Then patch to 1.1.

Afterwards apply the no-CD patch from this site and you are ready to start Freelancer.

During the first start of FLServer Windows 10 notifies you about a feature upgrade DirectPlay. This feature is needed for Freelancer to start.

I installed Freelancer on 3 machines running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.

epic answer!

Well, how do I know this file is safe?
Serious, where do I find this file?

So I tried installing Freelancer on a fresh installed (not upgraded) Win10 64-bit version. Installation and patching went OK, but after starting the game in Fullscreen 1600x1200x32 resolution and using Fraps to determine fps it was the same scene 180+ frames per second.

This PC has Nvidia 740 passive graphics card.

My other 2 PCs are identical and have Core i7-6700K and GTX 980 Ti cards. Both upgraded to Win 10 64-bit.

I think it must have something to do with the DirectPlay feature which is required to run Freelancer.

@Helloween:
My comments about the VSync were not meant in any way to offend people who turn this feature off. I'm used to gaming with VSync ON and therefore I immediately notice screen tearing.

Does anybody have a working full screen mode with VSync ON?

Thank you for all this input to my concern. It's remarkable how alive the community is, even after all those years since the release of the game.

I will try the border-less windowed solution and will give a feedback.

I'm still trying to figure out what causes this VSync permanent off, but so far I haven't had any success.

@FriendlyFire: What's your hardware config? Do you play vanilla patched 1.1 version, too? I have Win10 Build 1511.

So I tried gaming on my LAN server and the game stutters as hell due to the FPS peaks.

Can you please tell me how to edit those lines to have ingame 60 fps.
Do I have to do it on my server PC too? Is the editing possible with NotePad++?

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Win10 64Bit Pro and tried running Freelancer vanilla with patch 1.1 installed.

The game starts fine and is playable. Before starting it Win10 needed to install the "DirectPlay" feature.

The only problem is in Full Screen mode the VSync is off the I get about 180 fps which causes a not fluent gameplay due to huge fps spikes.

I tried to lock VSync to ON via NVidia drivers for my GTX 980 Ti, but the game ignores all VSync related settings.

I only get 60fps when starting the game windowed via the -w command switch.

How do I lock the FPS to 60fps in full screen mode?

Thank you for the answers.

That's also my approach to installing games and software.
I always have a backup done of my SSD and then I try to
install software and games.

In a few days I will have assembled my new PC and will try
to install the patch on it again.

The notebook I used for the server had the same settings
regarding the language, region settings, etc.

Doesn't there exist some patches from Adoxa that are used
for patching Freelancer? Those must be too just extracting
files and patching the Freelancer Folder just by overwriting?

In my case I'm searching for a workaround tf the patching
problem will repeat. Unfortunately FLServer does not show
a changed version when patched,