For vanilla widescreen support you need Jason's Freelancer Patch (which includes HUD Shift). If you're installing Freelancer to the default location (within Program Files (x86)) you'll need to explicitly run jflp.exe as administrator. Once installed, go to options and change the resolution.

It's not invalid XML, but it is an invalid unsigned number. Recall that hex numbers have one subtracted, so the conversion to 0 produces a value of -1, which is white.

Simple solution: reinstall. To discover what went wrong: install to a different directory, then compare the old and new to see what's different.

Don't know what 2860078089 is, but the others are:

Did you look at the readme? "This is a command-line utility..." ... "Open up the command prompt..." (emphasis mine).

Works fine for me and if it was a problem I'm pretty sure I would have heard about it before now.

Attached is a program to patch Freelancer.exe to do system_string + system_name + ", "; you'll also have to change the resource string to remove the leading space and comma. You could use my Territory plugin to change the message on entering a system. (Edit: No need, changing the resource should be enough.)

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a) I'm afraid that's a hard limit (this counts as a player name, which is restricted to 23 characters). I could add a hook to use an abbreviated ship name, but it hardly seems worth it. Alternatively, edit strings 16154 & 16156 in EXE\resources.dll (group 1010 in Resource Hacker) and put %s0 last (thus truncating the ship name, or even just leave it out).

b) Every commodity has a base value, so I think what may be happening is you're purchasing below that value, but it uses the base value to calculate your worth, so that gives you enough for the next level.

Internal mission numbers changed with the official patch (from Mission 3 I think), which prevents leveling up if you saved with one version and loaded with the other.