Freelancer Support

Hey Sol - what he needs is some new Nomad ships that have not been seen before!

You could let your soul wander on those! 😄

The existing nomad textures are tricky to apply, they are sort of double-skinned using the Alpha channel, haven’t looked at it closely enough.

And mohanadhassan, how about naming it “Nomads Never Die!” - don’t infringe on someone else’s name pls.

Everyone have fun here! 😎

…. I edited the dacom.ini, also I would like to get widescreen to work on HC, but with FLCD Idk how

If you go to www.dyndns.com you can get yourself a hostname then using the dyndns update tool have that record updated automaticly when ever your ip changes . Then you can provide people with a url that will always point to your ip

For example change the path value in freelancer shortcut

Right click on the shortcut, select Properties and click on Shortcut tab. In a field called Target path add the following
-s example.webhop.net:2302

Hope that helps.

*Edit: just noticed F!R already posted solution on previous page…. is what happens when you skim read threads. Oh well least its alternative provider of dynamic hostname service.

Thanks Davis. I will give this a try.

Quarks: Nothing.

This is just a way to switch to three, two, or one CPU if you want to for any purpose at all.

Jase: At boot time the entry /numproc sets the number of CPUs that will be enabled, until next boot when boot.ini is read again.

Now - whether or not Microsoft / Intel got it right and can actually turn off a physical CPU, or just reduce the total CPU capacity to the capacity of 1 CPU, I am not sure, I don’t have a dual-core machine. If you can display the usage for each CPU then it will be visible.

You need to remember to enable the remaining CPUs when you have finished testing.

Your affinity tip is correct, in as far as running a particular application on a certain CPU, but all CPUs will be enabled if they are not disabled as above.

Note: CPUs are disabled in reverse order, you cannot select which one. CPU 0 is never disabled…

Reminisces…
… After all, this is not one of my “ancient” and “dynosaur” mainframes that you youngsters laughed at not so long ago, that would let you do this so easily. Now you are getting those old “ancient” and “dynosaur” functions in a box less than 1 cubic foot instead of 32 cubic metres, that’s the only difference. You lot will just have to struggle a bit longer while Intel and Microsoft and Sun and others play catchup-with-the-good-old-mainframe, and believe how wonderful they are to have “invented” this stuff! Ha! They’ve only just now found “Virtual Machine” in software - IBM had VM software in the late 1970s. Ours had it in hardware timeslice in the 1980s, just to let customers get rid of IBM’s costly VM. But then again my beard is long and white now, and after all when I was young we never believed old people, too convinced they were telling us yarns… 😄

Ruminates…
Anyhow, that technology is too advanced for you right now, it would blow your minds because you’ll want it in your “cubic foot” and you can’t have it yet. But Intel might “invent” it again just for you, soon… 😄

And gives up…
And as for “Virtualisation”… aaahhh, what’s the use?..!! 🔨

jase240 wrote:
try updating your graphics drivers to an OLDER version like older than September of last year, there is a bug with the Nvidia 200x drivers they made recently causing a lot of problems.

That did it!!! I mean I can’t be 100% sure yet, but I installed driver version 190.38 (from July 2009) and was able to cruise the universe for hours without any errors.
Thank you SO MUCH for that hint!!

😄 😄 😄

Well, afaik there are also alternative video card drivers except the official ones. I for instance heard about Omega Drivers, but never tried out by myself. Might want be worth a try.

JFLP will use whatever ratio your resolution is. Since 1280x1024 is a 5:4 ratio, it will dutifully create a “narrowscreen”. If you want to restore the original 4:3 view, open up DATA\cameras.ini and remove the appropriate semicolons.

Try this disabling MS Security Essentials if it is installed:http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2509&forum=21

Or it may be an antivirus or anti-spyware program, try disabling yours temporarily.

ok first off before you think Freelancer isnt compatible with windows 7 64 bit, its 100% compatible in most cases( I have it installed on two computers both with windows 7 64 bit, runs just fine. )

have you tried reinstalling? Could be a corrupt installation, even is you just installed reinstall in the following order…

uninstall all mods
uninstall FLMM
install freelancer
install FLMM 1.4

disable UAC(User Account Control)
Always run as admin
maybe set compatibility options for freelancer disabling visual themes(windows aero)
compatibility for windows 2000 or xp sp2 might work

What mods have you tried? Also is this a legit version of windows 7 64 or a “special” version
And is it windows 7 basic, home premium, professional, or ultimate?
And how long have you had it?

And is this a legit version of Freelancer or a torrented version, if its torrented try downloading another torrent of it.

If you are still having problems post your hardware information that would help a lot too, example 2-4 video cards in SLi or Crossfire might cause problems with freelancer.

Also what anti-virus and firewall are you using?

Also in rare cases with windows 7, its security will not give the your user account ownership of everything you install, there is a registry “hack” that allows you to take ownership of everything, if only I could remember where to find it( its been a while )

Also try different versions of FLMM there are 3 good ones available right now: 1.3, 1.44 beta, and 1.51 beta
Hope you get it working 🙂

It works!

Now, I did it a little different because it seems Vista is different and my laptop is in dutch.

I couldn’t find the codec list, so I googled the Fraunhoffer thing for vista.
It appears Windows and Fraunhoffer have a bit of a fight, now every Vista still has Fraunhoffer’s thing but it is still on, in TWO files.
The problem is that the advanced is working and the professional (the needed one) is deactivated.
By using a patch, the advanced is deleted and the professional is activated.
By using this, and deleting all old saves and restart.fl, it now works like a breeze.

I’m so happy!

I don’t know if I’m allowed to link to a other site, but I’m going to take the risk because here is where the patch is:
Patch

Restart.fl is exactly a savegame - rename any savegame to restart.fl and you can load it by clicking “New Game”. That’s what I did for SP from MP.

Hmm. The discovery mod already includes a global server workaround and the 1.1 patch.

A lot of people are downloading and installing the updates from moddb rather than installing the full release.

You need to download the full version of 4.85 from here http://www.moddb.com/mods/discovery-freelancer/downloads/discovery-freelancer-v485-reunion

Don’t download the any of the updates; just the full version from the link above.

Once the mod is installed and Freelancer run for the first time it should automatically update to the latest update. Because some people are behind proxies it might not automatically update. In this case you will need to manually install the latest update.

Speed has nothing to do with it as far as I know, it likely is something to do with how FL’s multiplayer operates.

After trying all the things mentioned here I am fairly certain my router is eating the server. Given my router’s age there does not seem to be any help for it. Though I am hoping to replace it soon. Thanks for the advice. When I get the new router hopefully I won’t have this issue.

ok thank you will try it just updated and i will try out tonight. i still think its direct connecting with x fire is causing it.
yeah the problem is with direct connect with x fire after update you told me about it still happens going to use the gls work around. thank you.

tai wrote:
It’s because you are using the same Windows User and Machine, if you create a new Windows user and launch FL once on it there should be an new ID on that Windows account.

I guess you know the way you have to go from there, have fun!

now you said that, i remember -__-
thx ^^

alex thx it also works 🙂

I’m a bit familiar with it, also i used Explorer and what do i need to open the dll’s??
And could somebody maybe give me a link to an example of this, Like the solar system or something it has to ONLY contain new systems,planets,tradelanes or bases.

The most useful written tutorial I’ve used is “System building from scratch by Giskard” it’s worth getting a copy since it covers most system building aspects.

The document is here in among a lot of other FL modding data

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/913966/25096

FL companion for trade balancing is essential

HardCMP for viewing ships etc

A good editor like Notepad ++ makes ini editing almost enjoyable lol

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