Cant see laser

mknote

You know, I have the same problem, but I’ve never been able to figure out the cause. Some help here would be nice for me too.

MK

VNM51

zekameka wrote:
Hi! im new to the game. So , heres my problem:

Everything works fine except when i shoot i can see first 3 or 4 laser shots and then just the sound remains, but i cant see the lasers shooting, but they are, because a targeted ship takes damage.

Plz help, i have no idea what to do :?

You may shoot with Tizona del Cid, or any other shield buster lasers…. if its just vanilla game without any modification.
That guns dont have visible laser effect except at the flashider.

FriendlyFire

You’ll need to provide us with more information so that we can help.

Are you using mod(s)? Have you updated the game? Did you install the hardware update? What are your system specs? What’s your operating system (service pack included)? Are you running the game as Administrator with XP Service Pack 2 compatibility (if running Vista/7)?

Anything that might be relevant to debugging this issue. You may also want to provide us with your FLSpew log, which can be found in

X:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Freelancer\
```for Windows Vista/7 and in

X:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Freelancer\

Fenris_Wolf

had this happen lots to me in various mods (and vanilla). when it happens, try changing the game’s resolution…if your running at 800x600x32, change it to 800x600x16 (or vice versa). almost always fixes for me

zekameka

It happens with the first laser, that should be visible.

Resolution or color depth changing doesnt help.

Not using any mod. Windows XP SP3, 512 ram, 2800 Celeron, nvidia mx440. Tried running on lowest detail and on highest.

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FriendlyFire

Hmm…

The first step would be to download the hardware update. Just take the txt file in there and put it in your Freelancer’s EXE folder, which is by default

X:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE

It will overwrite a previous version of the file. You may have better luck with this.

Otherwise, try looking in the Nvidia control panel for 3D settings; sometimes they can help.

Finally, I know this sounds totally random (and it probably is), but have you tried firing your weapons with the keyboard? Use the numbers 1 through 9 to fire them individually and try using tilde (the topmost rightmost button on the main portion of the keyboard, right above tab) to fire them all. I know for some reason FL does not use the same behavior with those, so maybe it has something to do with this.

zekameka

lol when i fire with 1 or 2 or 3 keys separately, it works fine when i assigned “fire all weapons” to other key it still didnt work. Also when im rapidly hitting 1 2 and 3 keys together the laser still dissapears.

FriendlyFire

That really does sound like your graphics card just can’t cope with the effects… Have you tried installing the hardware update? Have you tried with different weapons?

zekameka

I believe i have the latest driver for my video card. And i think you are right - until now all problems i had with lots of games were because of my old videocard. So let the solution be : buy a newer video card

Vesko

Hmm… considering FL is from ye old 2003, it’s really hard to have a graphics card that can’t cope with FL… you’ve been up for an upgrade a loooong time ago

FriendlyFire

Funnily enough, I had a MX 440 in the past. And 4 other graphics cards between that and now

But yeah, I’m really afraid that is caused by your GPU being unable to cope with the effects or an incompatibility with it.