Freelancer Not Starting At All Help
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I sent him a PM but have not heard back from him.
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Sorry bout the delay Bullwinkle i hav sent a reply now
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But please let us know the solution, this is a very curious problem.
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We gave the system a thorough review and this problem does not appear to be any of the normal Freelancer CTD scenarios.
Rights are good, no saved games anywhere, nothing obviously wrong about the installation, no files quarantined by the A/V, and turning off A/V makes no difference (McAfee).
When double-clicked, FL runs for a few seconds, errors, and quits.
There are Event Log entries every time that FL quits, but they just say EventID 1000 in Freelancer.exe at 00000000.
That suggests to me that Freelancer is not running at all.
Clues:
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Registry entries linking GameUX with Freelancer. That is the Game Explorer. I have seen reports that the Game Explorer can interfere with games if it is allowed to collect information about games. Some users report that telling Game Explorer to stop collecting information about games has allowed some games to run.
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Registry values referring to C07ft5v. I have seen that before, and tracked it down, but it was years ago and I do not recall what does that – some security software, IIRC. Of course, Google and other search engines show no hits for it, but I know they are lying. What other search term can you enter into Google and get zero hits?
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Malevolent_Sponge traced the first date of failure to a day when he created a new user profile. Nothing obviously wrong with either profile. However, I found THREE user profiles rather than the two that he knew about. We were just about to investigate the third profile and check FLSpew.txt when our connection failed.
Other than Freelancer, the PC is running fine.
So my best suggestions, at this point, are to fix Game Explorer (above) and to make sure that third profile is not causing any trouble.
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Oh dear!
That’s disheartening. If nothing else is found soon then it would be a Windows re-install next.
If you need to do that it would be a good idea to partition the hard disk if it’s not already done, and move your user data to the
or E: disk first to save it.And make a system image of the clean install before loading any games, just only install your Office and whatever you will always need on it, then make the image of the
disk, it’s worth the extra 20 minutes needed to make it (make the bootable CD first).Here’s a reminder link for the system image:
http://forums.seriouszone.com/showthread.php?55706 -
If its coming to a windows reinstall im not going to do it
Everything else works perfectly and i dont want to do this
Also i dont even hav the windows 7 disc (as this comp came with Windows 7 preinstalled)
I am still bothered by this issue and ill still hav a look around to see what is happening and im downloadin a fresh Freelancer torrent which Bullwinkle recommended
Other than that… thats about as far as ill go with this issue ill stick to the laptop and i dont plan on doing any disk partitioning and reinstallations to get Freelancer workin
I’ll stick to the old laptop from now on and jus play FL from there.
(that is if there is no other option)
I’m not giving up on Freelancer im jus giving up on making it work on this computer…i am actually thinking of buying myself a new laptop for school and university when i go on so i think thats going to be my gaming laptop.
But as for this comp i dont want to loose any of my work or my parents
Thanks StarTrader for you useful info on that
And Bullwinkle ill pm you on Skype probably tommorrow (as its weekend i hav the day off nothing happening tommorrow so im free all day)
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Ahem… Maybe I used too many words…
Tell Game Explorer to not collect information about games.
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lol i did notice
i was actually installing the game while i was typing that last topic up.
Yea i went to the Game explorer window, clicked on options and ticked Never check online for updates or news etc
and i unticked Download art and info etc and Collect most recently played game info
Weird thing is Freelancer still came up so there must be another thing/s to disable this…. -
And…?
You forgot to tell us whether it fixed Freelancer!
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no sorry it didnt
btw i found a download of all these usefull tools im jus going through them now like FLScan
http://uid-90dd03c4dd0d1232.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B9F83663A46C5310!531.entry
mainly trying to see wat is causing issue
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MS, after our discussion about Microsoft’s advice to create a new user account, it sounds as though the problem you were having may have been this: The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded
Does that look familiar?
If that is the issue that Microsoft advised you on, then I think that you still have trouble with your profile.
FLSpew is not being created which is consistent with not having the correct rights to:
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data.
Unfortunately, I do not know, for sure, whether creating a new profile will fix this. However, it is one of the few remaining things that we have not tried. So:
- Create a new account in the Users Control Panel.
2) Do not mess with the profile in Explorer!
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Tell Game Explorer not to collect information about games.
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Install FL from your new CD.
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Let us know whether FL runs.
Good luck!
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