Freelancer Support

I did a similar thing for Digital Brilliance a week or so ago, so I guess I’ll help with this as well over the weekend.

masternerdguy wrote:
Last I checked it works pretty much fine with 1.3.14 and up.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2504&iTestingId=63035

(I’m actually a maintainer for this app)

There are two downsides.

1. Multiplayer is still a no-go.
2. Rendering is slower than running natively, you will notice that the entire screen is not being redrawn in a single pass at resolution like 1680x1050.

Actually, it looks like the first guy who got FL working under wine was on 0.9.44, Aug 28 2007.

I’m a super maintainer. 😛

I don’t think any of the Wine devs are paying much attention to FL MP. Maybe there’s someone here who would be able to get it working and submit patches though.
Rendering in Wine is never going to be as fast, as it’s DirectX calls have to be reworked for OpenGL.

Have fun and play 😄

If you have any issues come back here and we can sort through it.

Thanks Adoxa,
I said I was dumb.
I had hud.ini and hud.dll mixed up, but your fuller explanation helped me.
It is fine now, and thanks again. :oops:

Thanks

I have ports 2300 to 2304 forwarded. I have an apple airport extreme and it set up is all done in an actually program not by IP address, but those port have to forwarded to my server IP, but my friends still is unable to get on. He can see the server, but not get on, in addition he says teh ping for the server is a group of ? (like ???). Any ideas?

Playing Crossfire, I lost the tractor beam also when I changed ships.
I found that there was a way to manage the purchase that made the tractor beam sell with the old ship or come over to the new ship.
I forget how, as it has been a long time. I only play SP as well.

JFLP is one of the mods or patches that wont work.
I play through the SP and then delete the game.
I did it three times, but they still wont work.
Thanks for your interest.

Thanks for hanging in there for me.
I had a corruption when I tried manually adding the files.
I’ll see how I go now.
I extracted the flpatch.exe to the Freelancer\EXE folder, then I extracted the JFLPdll.zip to the Freelancer.EXE and it made it’s own exe folder. I then moved it’s contents to the main .EXE folder but nothing changes.
The ReadmePatch.htm and the jflp.dll are both in the Freelancer.EXE folder.

One strange thing was that the JFPL.dll stuff was an older date than the stuff already there that it replaced.

six steps down from the top

Downloaded it for later. Thanks.

Discovery contains everything you need to run a server. I’ll guess I’ll resist the urge to comment on mods that don’t. However, depending on your OS, you may need to disable IPv6.

You can still get DataStorm here:
http://ds.fa-matz.de/
It allows mod authors to put in a warning that is shown when you start the program.

Well, I tried it again today. Ubuntu 11.04 (I hate Unity, so Gnome 3 instead :)) and wine 1.3.20.

There are some fixmes spammed in console during startup, but the only real trouble I get is at the multiplayer server selection screen - huge lag, more console spam and no servers on the list:

fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x31414144 (as fourcc: DAA1) WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can’t find format unrecognized (0x31414144) in the format lookup table

I can play singleplayer just fine:

Locking double post. See http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4065&forum=11&post_id=43929#forumpost43929 for the good post.

OS: V or 7?

I recall that it might have to do something with VSync. Try either to deactivate or activate it, I am not sure about it.

The crash problem most likely came from the restart.fl file.

AFAIR crossfire is known for having problems after deactivating the mod. It was at least for 1.7 the case, not sure about 1.8.

Sometimes FLMM 1.4 or 1.5Beta can cause problems, so I guess the safest solution is to stick to 1.31. You can’t use* mods which are compressed by 7Zip (or was it just for the ultra compression).

You can’t “install” them to FLMM with double-click, but you can still extract them with winrar or 7-zip into your “mods” archive of FLMM and activate them then.

For the problems for the two mods I suggest you install FLMM 1.3 into a different directory.

If you have problems with Freelancer, try this:
Deactivate all mods.
Tools -> Restore backups

For SP you surely want to try out adoxa’s single-player console and maybe also FLHack - You need FL v 1.1 (it will still be shown ingame as v 1.0)

Also, I recommend that you make a backup copy of Freelancer after you installed it, if there are any problems with it (which can occur a lot with that game) you can simple copy your backup folder.

Yep, same

I think this might be related to the original Freelancer.exe. Pretty ironic that part of the purpose of Hack was to allow patching the protected exe. Try visiting gamecopyworld for an unprotected exe (or you may even have one as part of a mod). If that doesn’t fix it, send me the crash address (the Module and Offset part in the dialog).

I’ve run it under VMWare before, this is nothing new.

Oh and BTW, it works in Wine as it can be installed using PlayOnLinux, which is a Wine frontend. It’s not fully functional as it only allows basic SP, but it works.