New player here with some graphics trouble

Syd

can you make a screenshot please?

gmweaver

OK, here are some screenshots. The first two show the problem, and the last one shows how it stops when I hover over the cancel button.

FriendlyFire

If you look in your Freelancer folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer by default), I believe there is an XML package somewhere in there. Execute it and try again.

gmweaver

Thanks for the input. I tried it, but again there was no change.

Grey_Wolf

First off if this was a court of law they would refer to me as a “Hostile Witness” as I swore off Vista long ago on my own machines. ;D

However, I do still have to “Fix” these things on a all too frequent an occasion with, You guessed, Vista Installed,

Two Possible Answers for you…

1st,
Your Video Driver may install a separate applet In Control Panel, or it May just be reached off the Standard Display Applet / Settings Tab / Advanced Button Pathway. Regardless, you are looking for the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile (GMA). Open the Applet (Graphics Properties Button from Display Applet), and locate the 3D Settings Button.
Click and open the 3D Settings button. If the “Restore Defaults” is not grayed out MAKE NOTE of the current values and save this info! Then click Restore Defaults, Ignore Intel stating at top these settings only pertain to OpenGL. If the button is not Greyed out, Intentionally change one value, click Apply, then come back and Click Restore Defaults. Some bizarre reason I have seen this fix it as well. Remember, if none of this step solved your issue, and there was other than default settings in the 3D Settings Area, be certain to restore these from your notes.

2nd,
This well written guide will help with attempting a fix using Compatibility Modes. Beginners Guides: Making Old Software Compatible with Windows Vista The entire guide is useful, but the sections on page 4 and 5 mean the most to you here. I think your issue might trace to “Disable Display Scaling on High DPI Settings” on page 5. Especially if your running Large or Scaled Fonts on your Desktop as many do on Laptops for visibility.

I hope one of these get you results.

sonicw

bump.

I have this EXACT issue, also with the intel GMA chip. Is there any workaround? I’ve tried both methods, disabling scaling and restoring the default intel graphics settings. It’s odd how my friend’s ancient S3 video card can run this fine. There must be some driver issue between the intel chip and Freelancer.

Wolfie

my experience is that the GMA500 i got in my netbook doesnt like 8 bit graphics, 16 bit graphics and 640x480 resolutions, it doesnt like transparent textures with something that is overlapping isnt transparent… this is only the drivers that has trouble with, everything on my list now works without the drivers but then u wont be able to play new games (DX8 and up)

Bas

Have you tried alternative graphic card drivers? (For instance, for ATI omegadriver)

Bas

That be the exact issue I’m having right thar! As of this moment, I have only found one thing that fixes this issue, but at the cost of graphics degradation and some speed.

SwiftShader:
http://9xxssf.info/downloads.html

Unzip and drop the files
d3d8.dll
d3d9.dll
SwiftShader.ini
SwiftShader 2_0 Configuration Panel.mht
into your freelancer EXE folder and run FL.

http://www.procyonserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22387#p22387

Couldn’t changing shader options or so in the graphics card setting help a bit as well?

w0dk4

Wow, Intel GMA is the biggest piece of shit hardware Ive seen in a while. Over at FreeAllegiance, they have also loads of problems with that graphics card.