Something New, from the land of many troubles

Uncheck the IPv6 protocol in the TCP/IP properties of the connection. Reboot, done. If that is indeed the issue….

@F!R:

Anyone tried ReactOS?
Or WINE, which is said 2 be fully compatible with Freelancer.

Yup I have tried it…
Freelancer fully works under Linux with Wine. Except the intro movies wich are WMV files for media player.
For the rest it works like a charm, and it runs quicker as well.

nice information worfeh ;D
We have to spread this info around I believe ^^

That is what I get if I try to load up a server on my computer running XP Pro SP3, it is a IPv6 address.
I am on a private network - I think this is why it can’t get a normal IP
Are you on a private network?
EDIT: I think Windows 7 has a setting that forces a IPv6

@FuryFreelancer:

Uncheck the IPv6 protocol in the TCP/IP properties of the connection. Reboot, done. If that is indeed the issue….

The address you see IS an IPv6 address!

Let’s make this clear, a MAC address looks like this:
01:23:45:67:89:ab

While an IPv6 address looks like this:
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334

See how the IPv6 address can be much longer and has groups of FOUR digits, not two.

Now, have you tried to do as Fury said? Deactivate IPv6 and try again ::)

My screenshot:

I ask again, have you deactivated IPv6?

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/09/disable-and-turn-off-ipv6-support-in-vista/

I managed to work out what to XP, and yep it is turned off, but I still get that IPv6 problem in freelancer, I think that freelancer can’t connect to it because the gateway I use is a linux server, running CentOS.

Turn IP v6 off in the kernel.

http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/05/12/how-to-disable-ipv6-in-fedora-and-centos/

!!FIX!!= I went to command prompt and typed “ipconfig /all” it revealed my normal network adapter and two tunneling interfaces, So I went to my normal network connection properties, clicked on Internet Protocol version 6 and then clicked on “Uninstall”.
Then when I rebooted I did “ipconfig /all” again, there where no tunneling interfaces, and freelancer was fixed!

@Worfeh:

@F!R:

Anyone tried ReactOS?
Or WINE, which is said 2 be fully compatible with Freelancer.

Yup I have tried it…
Freelancer fully works under Linux with Wine. Except the intro movies wich are WMV files for media player.
For the rest it works like a charm, and it runs quicker as well.

I’d agree with the compatibility but not with the performance. For me FL runs much worse under WINE than plain old Windows XP, though that’s probably because of bad ATI linux drivers.

Maybe, i have NVIDIA … in SLI …
well, that whas a challenge to get it running, cos you will have to search for PCI addresses to get those cards running.

But FL loaded instantly, without delay… like you have on XP or on any other windows version… it just was fast.

Well it loaded in about the same time, but the FPS was pretty low.

Freelancer Client runs from Mac Os X with Crossover Office or Crossover Games
Mac Os X Leopard 10.5.4 Iatkos, Crossover Office 7.0.2, Acer Extensa 5220

I think Freelancer not 100% compatible with wine, because FLServer not fully working.
Whether it is possible to correct it?

Freelancer runs fully under Linux except the multiplayer, which lags extremely

It’s because of the bad Directplay support of WINE, but I read that it should be fixed by now. Can’t test it because my Computer is damaged.

Hope this helps

If I remember correctly, I had to use native directplay DLLs in order to get FLServer/multiplayer working.

@M0tah:

If I remember correctly, I had to use native directplay DLLs in order to get FLServer/multiplayer working.

Yep, i used this feature as listed in WineHQ. But…
Server starting, working self for locally running freelancer client on the same computer.
Server appears at servers list, but trying to join to it from far freelancer client has effect with window ala Connection Timeout
IpTables, SELinux and other security services offline.

@tai:

but I read that it should be fixed by now.

Good news for me, but I think it will be for dx10 :))

@M0tah:

If I remember correctly, I had to use native directplay DLLs in order to get FLServer/multiplayer working.

What linux distro you used and what version of wine?