Freelancer Support

Try running the game as administrator. Most MS game don’t play nice with newer versions of Windows. It’s not that they can’t be backward compatible, MS wants you to play X-Box.

Anyhow, it works fine on my Vista and Vista-7 laptops. Just open the icon properties and select the compatibility tab, you’ll see it.

I also like to hot-key it to use Ctrl-Alt and a letter or number to open the game.

Pascal

OutCast wrote:

Local Policy - Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment - Create global objects

found by our hardware admin.

Sorry for so late, the server is removed after i post last post, so i stopped trying.

This one actually works, used on my new server. Thank you and your hardware admin, he\she is a genius.

Hi adoxa.
I was looking for a way to make a screen resolution of 1280x1024 and jflp.dll do it.
I did not know that it requires hudshift.
hudshift solved the problem with a comm window, though I did not understand how.
tnx

Adoxa,

As usual, you find the answer. I am glad you are with us.

Pascal05

DirectInput is deprecated, yes, but XInput – last I checked – still doesn’t do anything but Xbox controllers. Given that programmers tend to ignore deprecated warnings, it would not surprise me if Watch_Dogs indeed falls back to using an old input API.

I mean, really. We can’t just instinctively blame Freelancer for everything.

I think question is about creating FL Server - setting, forwarding ports, etc and only after it… managing 🙂

That’s it. Thanks very much! My fault, because I am stupid and I coulndn’t find the right word.

I tried to use direct connect tools and no dice. I’ll consider bug fixes and global server workaround. Thanks for understanding my position.

Hello,

I know that this post is over a year old but I’m curious to know how you got FL discovery MP to work.
I am running it through Codeweaver’s Crossover on my mac and was able to play the whole SP campaign without a problem. I installed the Disco mod but can’t access the server list.
I;m trying to access the Discovery RP 24/7 server, how did you get the multiplayer going?

Interesting… adddressing multiple displays over multiple graphics cards seems to be what’s killing it for me, as soon as I reduce my desktop objects to only two(or one) from only a single graphics card, framerate is acceptable.
Putting all three monitors on one GPU effectively circumvents this as well.

See chaps, some old things are still better than some new things 😉

I just got lucky LOL Enjoy the game!

J.R. wrote:
How did u fix it ?

Similar levels of the NPC ships caused this problem , repeating the same unacceptable levels in fractions , for example:

npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d1
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d2
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d3
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d4
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d5
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d6
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d7
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d8
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d9
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d10
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d11
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d12
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d13
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d14
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d15
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d16
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d17
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d18 <––
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d19 <----
npc_ship = LI_1_d18 <----
npc_ship = LI_2_d19 <----

To solve the problem, you must either replace or raise the same levels , depending on the situation . Here’s how it should look :

npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d1
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d2
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d3
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d4
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d5
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d6
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d7
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d8
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d9
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d10
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d11
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d12
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d13
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d14
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d15
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d16
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d17
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d18
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d19
npc_ship = LI_1_d20
npc_ship = LI_2_d21

Or:

npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d1
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d2
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d3
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d4
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d5
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d6
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d7
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d8
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d9
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d10
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d11
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d12
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d13
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d14
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d15
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d16
npc_ship = li_n_li_elite_d17
npc_ship = LI_1_d18
npc_ship = LI_2_d19

Anyway, it will be really useful for everyone, because i first, who found a solution of problem with random mission. I searched through the entire internet, but i have found nothing.

No problem, its what were here for

i tried with hhc mod , i changed the color and re-compress the mod also i replace Freelancer.exe in Exe folder and in mods folder but i got the same result !

@MoD:

M.o.D. wrote:
I blindly assume that you know of this color changing feature by the FL-HC mod.
(cuz u mentioned ‘LSD’ )
If that’s so, go inside your EXE folder and take a look at the hc_client_tutorial.txt.

If you didnt change the value a the proper config file, the clientside DLL will load up the vanilla value and overwrite your new “hardcoded” on the fly 😉

To clarify, it’s a PNY Nvidia GT 630 graphics card. It did come with the driver disc and has even been updated to the most recent driver since then. DirectX 11 was already on my PC before the card. I had a useless chat with tech support and got directed to a broken website with messed up links that wouldn’t even let me log in to submit a compatibility request. Why tech support couldn’t submit the request for me is lost to me.

Like I said before, the card is great. I’m glad I got it. I just wish I could play FL and get a techy that knows how to do his/her job.

Thank you

That’s fine. FLServer is running, it’s just polling for the MS list server which shut down about 2008 or so. You can just ignore that message. It’s not connecting to any online servers unless you tell it to.

Any client PCs will just have to be directly connected to the LAN or will need to use the fldirectip.hta tool in the Freelancer EXE folder to connect to your server.

Sounds like you have a bad CD. Either that or you are using a copy of your original.
If the CD is the original, try cleaning it with an optical cleaning cloth. A bit of 92% isopropyl alcohol can be used to get oily smudges off. The alcohol is safe to use on CDs and DVDs.
You can look for damage (or debris spots) by viewing the disk at various angles, against the light. Scratches can sometimes be rubbed out, but USE an optical cloth so as not to damage the surrounding areas. You don’t want to add more damage.
Optical cloths can be found wherever CD/DVD cleaning kits are sold. They are unique in that they are lint-less and non-abrasive.
Anyway, this sounds like your problem. If it were a startup problem, the files on the CD are not actually accessed. MS puts intentional bad sectors on the CD to test/verify you have the original CD.
If it is not present, you are asked to place it in your drive.
Otherwise, everything is already on your HD if you ran the install. There are directory copies available out there, but you will still need the original CD.
Pascal05

Really frustrated again, but this time should be no problems and there are.
For more than week, the Draconus Majorum server is unreachable and doesn’t show in game server list.
Its up and running for 4-5 months now, its listed on flserver list under 77.46.212.67:2302 IP that I can ping too.
Using -s shortcut also lists whole servers list without it.

What else I can do or just simply can only wait a magic moment to become reachable by itself?
Any suggestions folks?

[EDIT] *Ignore it - its reachable again! Turned off server, checked ports with portforward port checker, started up a server and BINGO - it works!