How to make Freelancer run under Vista (no connecting-to-server issue - it's not working at all)

HeIIoween wrote:
Under Vista sp2?
I do not see problem…

What tells dxdiag?

I did run dxdiag, in the course of going thru some trouble-shooting list I found. Can’t remember specifics, only that DirectX 11 is on my laptop (I must admit I didn’t even know there’s already an 11. The years after FL I only played GTA and WoW).

Is there something important Dxdiag can tell me?

Wicked_Witch wrote:
I’m not sure if you already install/activate a mod?
If yes….Did you try first to startup Freelancer without a mod activated? Does it start proper than?
Deactivate the mod and make a new install of FL again and startup without any mod first. See if there is any problem already.

If it’s already not start proper there, maybe check audio drivers or still for the newest drivers for the grapic card. Vista reconize a lot, but that are not the original drivers from the manufactor from hardware itself.

If no mod… than forget my post

I have indeed activated a little OpenSP variation (to not run into the begin movies - it’s a mod that does work on other computer) but I also tried without. Yet, you are right it’s better to trouble shoot without any mod activated at all,

adoxa wrote:
Does windowed mode work (freelancer.exe -w)?

Is the -w part something I should put into the shortcut to freelancer.exe?

adoxa wrote:
Perhaps you need to edit PerfOptions.ini directly, to set a specific resolution?

I will look into it.

EDIT damned, there isn’t a search function in the right-click menu in Vista?!?!? Why the hell couldn’t MS just improve XP slightly and market that as the new windows? If someone is reading this now and knows the location of PerfOptions.ini, feel free to let me know. Meanwhile I’ll go browsing thru every subfolder :crazy:

EDIT Found it, in C:\Users\gebruiker\Documents\My Games\Freelancer

Problem SOLVED

Adjusting the scree resolution in PerOptions fixed it. It was on 1024x768, now it’s on 1280x800. Weird that the game does not fix this automatically.

So thanks (again) Adoxa!! And thanks other people thinking along and coming with advice.

@ Adoxa: I’d prefer that windowed mode. Should I indeed add the -w to the shortcut?

Btw My girlfriend is now nagging me, so I gotta go for now :oops:

:lol:

Gisteron wrote:
yea, that -w belongs into the shortcut either or you can add it to a command line for activating the application.

I can’t add anything (tried both the ‘target’ and the ‘start at’ line).

Btw there is an option to choose the window size under ‘run’, which is on ‘normal’ by default (or something similar - my OS is a dutch language version) I’d figure that ‘maximize’ would render a windowed FL, but it doesn’t.

:?

Gisteron wrote:
make your shortcut not read-only. target is the line you’d have to type the -w on the end…

Thanks Took me a few attempts* but I got it working now.

*(within the quotes, outside the quotes, with a space, without one. For other sods like me, reading this thread: it has to be outside the quotes, and with a space :roll:)

I had to turn my laptop’s resolution down to 1024x768, because the uppermost functions (the rooms at bases, cruise etc.) fell offscreen at my previous resolution :crazy:

adoxa wrote:
@Moonhead: 1280x800 is a widescreen resolution (16:10), which Freelancer doesn’t directly support. Install JFLP or modify cameras.ini directly: 54.432 -> 63.361 and 70 -> 80.077. You may also like to try HUD Shift, to put the windows back on the left/right edges.

Thx! Actually I’ve just entered 1280, 960 into PerfOptions.ini and it seemed to work fine (I had to, coz the resolution was really annoying in other progs and I’m too lazy to keep switching)*. But I only looked for 2 sec or so, so I might very well need your suggestions in due time!

*(Btw, wasn’t it common for games to auto-adjust screen resolution, and chanching it back on closing the game?)