Freelancer Support

adoxa wrote:

# Double the size of Freelancer's "visit" packet. # Jason Hood, 7 March, 2021. # This allows over 40000 visit objects. File: RemoteClient.dll 0096E9: 20 03 [ 90 01 ] # 204800 up from 102400 009708: 20 03 [ 90 01 ]

Awesome! thank you, Adoxa!

adoxa wrote:
Here’s the same thing, but as a plugin.

Thank you so much, Adoxa. It works! With your help my dream has come true! 😄

As a newcomer in 2020, trying to sort out connecting to the multiplayer server list has been a little puzzling. I’ve done some experimenting and I finally ended up with this:

1. Grab this zip: http://www.freelancerserver.de/download/flgls_workaround_v10.zip
2. Extract the files. Copy gls_workaround.dll and libcurl.dll into your Freelancer\EXE directory.
3. Open dacom.ini in a text editor and add gls_workaround.dll to the bottom of the [Libraries] section.

That’s it.

NOTE:

The zip contains a dacom.ini that includes libcurl.dll in the [Libraries] section. This does not appear to be necessary. I’m not certain what the gls_workaround.ini file is for, but it also does not appear to be needed. Maybe someone can clarify this?

Observations:

1. After only updating the [ListServer] section in freelancer.ini to point at gun.fllistserver.com, I only saw about half of the available servers. After starting the game, I noticed if you only see global servers the INTERNET multiplayer selection and none in the LAN, then the global override DLL is not enabled.

2. As stated above, gls_workaround.dll needs to be added to the [Libraries] section in dacom.ini, BUT you also need libcurl.dll present along with gls_workaround.dll in your Freelancer\EXE as well (it’s not installed with vanilla). I mention this because there are .zip packages out there with the gls_workaround.dll but not the libcurl.dll. Again, without libcurl.cll THIS WILL SILENTLY FAIL.

3. As of this date, Dec 05 2020, the old DLLs from 2007 still continue to work (supplied in the link I posted above). It does not seem like any other patched DLLs are needed.

Speaking of DirectX…
I can remember an odd way to “fix” some problems with Freelancer… but I can´t actually remember what kind of issue it was back then. Anyways I startet the DirectX install that comes with the original FL-CD (I guess it was Version 9) ALTHOUGH I had a more recent DX-Version already installed… The Install started and prompts that there is a newer one already running … after exiting the DX-Install the Freelancer-issue was gone. 😄 Sure… this is a SHOT IN THE DARK… but maybe you´ll try it anyways. 😉

Greetings
J.R.

Holy Moses… folks

I sometimes do live-streaming (Twitch) and found a hilarious bug in Freelancer. As long as the Streaming-Software (OBS-Studio) is running (doesn´t have to be broadcasting at all) the ingame-refresh-rate is rock-solid at 60 FPS (I caped them via hacks) But when its turned OFF, i have those “random” drops to ~50 FPS (after a minute or so regardless of being in space or sitting on a base) and they stay down there… God only knows why !!!

Is there anybody out there who´s able to tell me the answer to THIS

Greetings J.R.

Edit 1:
Tested a couple of tweaks already: It doesn´t seem to make a difference if the FPS-limit is set to a higher rate… the drop to ~50 FPS remains. V-sync ON or OFF… even removing the hacks or applying the “fix” mentioned above doesn´t make ANY difference. Fact: As long as OBS-Studio is running, the frame-rate doesn´t drop at all. Without OBS the issue is imminent after ~30-50 Sec…

Edit 2:
Same effect appears when using RTSS and “limit” the FPS for Freelancer to 60 in the “RivaTuner Statistics Server”. NO FPS-drops… This is getting more and more odd… 😄

Are you running any mods or patches? There are some scripting issues with 1.4 sdk, and I think with the jflp patch. Should be a bit easier to diagnose things if you can tell us what you’re running freelancer with!

Leaving a post here to remind myself of this topic as it relates to my installer/launcher/patcher project.

I spoke to my daughters B/F he’s quite a wizz with all things pc I showed him your link and he pretty much had freelancer up and running on his pc within minutes and that’s win 10 so thank you for your advice and the link,he’s going to ask a friend who might have a spare laptop that I can buy and he said he could set it up for me if I needed him too,the site he used for the d/l was called myabandonware.com so just need the laptop and I’m heading back into freelancer for the next few years 😄 😄

Really sorry guys, I fixed this on the server-side. Should now work again and no change to existing dlls is required.

And yeah, the gls workaround also patches FL to use Crazy’s GLS as a backup.

Thanks adoxa for finding out what was the reason!!

Yeah I turned on Direct Play and still nothing.

– Kai

you don’t need key generators

Driver amd CPU :
https://www.amd.com/fr/support/cpu/amd-ryzen-processors/amd-ryzen-5-desktop-processors/amd-ryzen-5-2600x

Driver Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 :
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/151275/en-us

DirectX directx_Jun2010_redist.exe :
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

DirectPlay :
https://forum.vivaldi.net/assets/uploads/files/1554354663309-win10-directplay.png

Uncheck and Yes :
https://i.imgur.com/mMoxlv8.png

If you want a pre-fixed EXE, there’s one here: https://r.je/freelancer/Freelancer.exe it just increases draw distance for tradelanes and other objects which are not configurable in ini files.

I maintain the Linux installer for lutris and the installer has an option to apply increased draw distance.

Along with the following replacements for draw distances:

sed "s/LODranges.*/LODranges = 0, 99999/" "$GAMEDIR/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer/DATA/SHIPS/shiparch.ini" -i sed "s/LODranges.*/LODranges = 0, 99999/" "$GAMEDIR/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer/DATA/SHIPS/rtc_shiparch.ini" -i sed "s/LODranges.*/LODranges = 0, 99999/" "$GAMEDIR/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer/DATA/SOLAR/solararch.ini" -i sed "s/LODranges.*/LODranges = 0, 99999/" "$GAMEDIR/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer/DATA/EQUIPMENT/select_equip.ini" -i sed "s/LODranges.*/LODranges = 0, 99999/" "$GAMEDIR/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer/DATA/EQUIPMENT/weapon_equip.ini" -i sed "s/LODranges.*/LODranges = 0, 99999/" "$GAMEDIR/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer/DATA/EQUIPMENT/misc_equip.ini" -i sed "s/LODranges.*/LODranges = 0, 99999/" "$GAMEDIR/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer/DATA/EQUIPMENT/st_equip.ini" -i

You can read the files and the fine/replaces there. You’ll need a regex find/replace as the original LODRanges value differs depending on what you’re editing.

I dunno the exact thing, but I found information about the installation, there was a small mentioning that the EXE for win7 was patched and included the open map…

thanks, that helped.
the font is a bit small, any idea where to change that?

Bolte wrote:
Crazy, have you released the source code for the list server? Or are you planning to? I’d love to run my own…

+1 I’d love to play around with the source and possibly create a mirror 🙂

Hi i have try to lower sensitivity but that did not work at all! Sure can try do Enable VSync 🙂

7 for the win, as in 7 is better than 10.

Hi adoxa,
I downloaded the patch from the link that you had provided.
so far so good, the game works wel. The only issue was when I was trying to adjust the screen resolution, it kept switching to the default resolution in the PerfOptions.ini file. So I adjusted it to 2560X1440 in that .ini file.

It does look pretty good I must admit 😄 I want to thank you very much on the issue.

Regards,
Steve555

I used -slocalhost.

Strange thing though:

I decided to try tethering the net through my phone to the pc, and immediately as soon as it had a connection the server popped up and I could play. I played for 4.5 hours and no problems, at all.

So wtf? Magic internet voodoo lmao