Stuttering

[Knaw]

I’ve been trying to get help for my issue on several different Freelancer forums, but no luck so far, so if you’ve seen me elsewhere I appologize.

I was feeling very nostalgic and haven’t played Freelancer since upgrading my computer and so I installed it again, set the windows XP compatability mode like I was supposed to, and tried playing it. The splash screen and opening movie displays okay, but then it gets choppy. It’s as if I was pausing and unpausing the game repeatedly. It starts at the title menu screen and it makes the game unplayable. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Here are my computer specs

Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
16 GB RAM
Core i7-4820k @ 3.70GHz
Dual GeForce GTX 770 gfx cards

I’m using an original disc with no mods (vanilla). I have tried running with compatibility modes and without, as administrator, and installed it at D:\Freelancer. My .net framework 3.5 is active, and I have tried enabling vertical synch in the nvidia control menu.

The only thing I can think of is that when the game starts it says it doesn’t recognize my video card.

[Kazinsal]

Try going back into the Nvidia control panel and setting it so that it doesn’t use SLI for Freelancer.

[Knaw]

So I don’t see a specific option for “Disable SLI” in the list, but I found an option where I can select which GPU to use? Included a screenshot of the option, and I tried selecting one and then the other, but neither had any impact.

[FriendlyFire]

That option right under “Manage 3D Settings” called “Configure SLI, Surround, PhysX”…

[Knaw]

Okay, I went to that tab and SLI was already disabled. I enabled it just to check, but no luck there either.

[TRIP]

Hello.
I have the same problem.
video’s are good but when menu start, starts the stuttering to.

and i have:
nvidia gf 7900 gs
int. ramdac
bios version: 5.71.22.41.d5
and 1 gb mem on the card

operating sys is windows 8.1 pro 32 bit

who can help me to

i treid the trail version and i did not have any isseu.
after deletet the trail version i instaled the original game.

but its stuttering and it looks like i see frame by frame after the moment that the menu starts.

[adoxa]

Interesting that the trial works, but the release doesn’t - you may simply be able to replace some of the release DLLs with the trial versions. Try: alchemy.dll, deformable2.dll, engbase.dll, flmaterials.dll, rendcomp.dll, rp8.dll, shading.dll (and maybe soundmanager.dll, soundstreamer.dll, should it somehow be sound-related).

[VNM51]

@TRIP:
Check FL Sounds menu, 3D sound on or off?