Yep, had the user who had the issue pop up very consistently confirm that 1.03 dll fixes the issue. Much appreciated.

@Gold_Sear Damn, I did browse through the knowledge base but I must have skipped this entirely. Apologies.
Many thanks to you and BC46 who also pointed it out to me and included the original thread, with adoxa finding it https://the-starport.com/forums/post/40981

@w0dka, thank you for hosting the site for such a long time :). I think I visited the old starport maybe once a year… so thank you for helping keep my yearly nostalgia trip alive!

happy NY

@Venemon:
I actually played around with this offset a few years back while trying to reduce the symptoms of Ship Shaking but never posted it. Anyway credits go to you:

Freelancer.exe 1186F0 0.05f = multiplier for third person view inertia ~Venemon

EDIT: added pull request for the 101 list.

@XxSARGExX huge, huge thanks for running Regulancer and coordinating all these streams and events. You’ve done an amazing job this year and I don’t think we’d be where we are today without you. Keep up the good work 🙂

Thank you very much everything works great.

Hi folks, just a heads up, we’ve been a bit slow on accepting registrations over the Christmas period as we’ve all had other stuff on our plates over the last week or so. If your registration request is taking too long, or you think we might’ve missed it, fire us an email at [email protected], or hit one of us up on the Discord to get it sorted out 🙂

Dang… I hoped my acknowledgement would cause you to surrender victory.

I’ve pushed out a small patch this evening that does the following:

Adds more distinct notification/chat icons Adds a quick reply box to the bottom of any topic Automatically posts in the Discord whenever a post is made to the Starport. Alerts the admins when a new user registers and is awaiting approval Allows users to be emailed or notified when a post is made in a category they are watching.

New notification/chat icons when you have a notification/message:
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I wanted to give you guys a quick update after my last post. I still am working on the renderer and have fixed many bugs (mostly visible rendering issues) since the public beta release. Also there has been a lot of optimization work and I am currently working on some more optimizations for the shadow calculation/rendering. After that the list of remaining bugs is very small (and are minor ones). It should be out of beta once the last ones are fixed. Then I hopefully can start working on releasing the tools so that everyone can use it.

One recent change is the improvement of the light scattering. Now it knows where the suns are and only is enabled for them (before that it only used the first light source (not sun!) in the system). Also you now can have up to 8 suns with light scattering in one scene (the maximum limit actually is currently arbitrary set from me). You can reduce the maximum number in the settings window of the renderer (e.g. if you have a slower graphics card).
If no sun is visible light scattering is disabled now (before it was always on when in an asteroid field or nebula).

Example screenshot of 3 suns with light scattering:

One bug that has given me trouble for a very long time is some weird memory behaviour. After some time the renderer just could not reserve any more memory resulting in missing textures and crash of Freelancer shortly after. On some PCs this even was after 15 minutes when switching between many systems (I finally was able to reproduce it after switching nonstop systems for about 45 minutes on my PC). For the technically inclined: Address Sanitizer using VS2022 (https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/cpp/sanitizers/asan?view=msvc-170 and Visual Leak Detector using VS2017) do not find anything. Also lets just say I usually know how to avoid and also find memory leaks.

My current (also not so good solution) is to enable the Large Adress Aware flag for the Freelancer.exe. After I have had the registry setting “MEM_TOP_DOWN” on for some weeks I can at least confirm that Freelancer has no problem with the flag (while the registry setting funnily broke some windows 7 control panel applications, meaning they are not large address aware). For now that solved it for our players (unless you play for lots of hours).

I suspect memory fragmentaion going on here, but that remains to be seen. I will come back to this later and it also might have disappeared by then due to my optimization work and code cleanup process.

I was planning for some time now to post some sort of FAQ thread where I explain what the renderer can do and what you need to do to convert your mod, but (as always) I did not have the time to do that, yet.