Something New, from the land of many troubles

I’m not exactly sure… but I can relate. I had this issue crop up with trying to get the game working on Vista. It would just churn up a similiar amount of letters and numbers - and wouldn’t let me into the game.

Despite trying many tried and true methods, I couldn’t actually get it to consistently change back. You can keep refreshing and eventually, an actual proper IP will show up with it. But, that could take a while and given that you are using the server for testing… after a while that would become headwrecking.

My own solution to it was to return to WinXP.

Perhaps try any of the current methods for setting the game up for Windows Vista and see if they are comparable? Just thinking about it… I think Sushi might of had a similar problem when he tried Windows 7 as well.

Unfortunately, I’ve tried every trick in the book to get Windows 7 to allow me to load a server on machine and connect to it. I haven’t found a way to successfully do this. The issue is the IPv6 option in your network. For whatever reason, FL doesn’t like it and you get that “IP Address”. Now, I’ve tried deselecting this in the network properties and I still get the same result, sadly. I did a little research and tried to turn off all the programs that use IPv6, and still, no luck.

The only way to get your CPU to run FL again, is by uninstalling 7

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

It is the mac adress (if I am not mistaken) and this isnt vista related (i know that since I have read threads in the long past about this issue)

Not sure about how it came up to this issue, but a semi-solution is to try 20+ times refresh (and this isnt a good solution as youwill agree)

@Bas:

It is the mac adress (if I am not mistaken) and this isnt vista related (i know that since I have read threads in the long past about this issue)

Not sure about how it came up to this issue, but a semi-solution is to try 20+ times refresh (and this isnt a good solution as youwill agree)

I’m 80% certain the issue is caused by IPv6, given my past experiences and what I have read.

yes, it’s ipv6 address.

i was going to suggest IPv6 here but 2 ppl came ahead of me

disable it

Yes, that is an IPv6 address. Additionally, look for other connections on your computer and try to deactivate those too. If you have FireWire installed (most recent computers at least have one port), you may want to try to deactivate the 1394 network connection too. Just shooting in the dark here as that seems to be a 7-specific issue.

lol nice server name btw ^^

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/