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?

What I really want to do is to enable VSync in the driver and not limiting the ingame engine to 60 fps. I think this bug must be connected with the new Window Desktop Manager of Windows 10.

Freelancer seems to run on the desktop somehow emulated because the driver settings for VSync are ignored all the way.

Does anybody else have these problems with VSync permanently off and Win10 running?

I thank you for the codes but I don't want to mess around with the code and first want to try to fix it in the driver.

During Win7 days I used DXTweaker to force VSync ON and Triple Buffer.

When starting Freelancer windowed via -w switch it runs 60 fps locked, but it is not playable because the mouse pointer is not locked to the borders.

Well you must edit the values at those offsets in a hex editor.
Anyway i uploaded common.dll from Freelancer folder/EXE/ for the game version 1.1 (i presume you have already this version).
Just replace the one you have with this one (make a backup for safety anytime). Its edited with a 60 fps instead of 200 default.

Attach file:

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Common.zip Size: 730.60 KB; Hits: 402

I ended up using a program called Dxtory to cap the framerate. It doesn't need registration if you're just using the FPS limiter.

Another solution would be virtualization. Running in a Win7 virtualized should work very good.
You can try VirtualBox or VMWare.
Really didn't know Microsoft made such major changes in Win10 (i know, tablet and laptop or desktop running same OS with similar performances), seeing second person that complains about compatibility to FL, I'll think more about an upgrade.

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.

And i prefer more than 60 FPS than always constant FPS at 60.
And i always keeping VSync Off at my driver properties and game settings.

And i do not understand why do people need to hide wish to show how cool the are. Why not just create topic to compare with others own hardware specs?