JFLP / Jason's Freelancer Patch

Now that I have a widescreen monitor myself, I’ve found a few flaws in my implementation. Fixed with v1.12 of jflp.dll. The mouse sensitivity has been restored, so if you’ve gotten used to the widescreen version, you might find this a little sluggish. Due to the adjusted camera for scripts, you’ll notice something extra in the gasminer intro - I’ll fix that with the next JFLP. It also fixes the Nav Map/Alt+Tab issue (reported somewhere else).

Once I get back to JFLP, I’ll move widescreen and the extra stats into separate plugins.

Bug: You can’t finish the blood dragon’s mission where you have to dock at tekagi’s arc if you used “save” command, the generators don’t appear then.

Bug: You can hardly finish the mission with the experimental nomad ships in Rheinland. Once you are in the minefield the mission fails either because you get behind a nomad ship or once you destroy one. You get the message: “Mission failed! You fled from battle!”

Setting the cruise speed to 300 before you launch from Holstein fixes the issue, so you might want either reset the cruise speed automatically (with notice) or just drop a hint at the mission information.

the problem on mission 10 (the experimental nomad ships) i have, too, even without usage of the jflp. however, there is a way to avoid it just staying strictly at the hardpoints until you are clearly ordered to destroy the nomad spaceships.

I have one problem with Widescreen not sure what it is.

Im running at 1366x768 and it looks great. but the problem i notice is a screen lag and a screen blur type problem. the blur dont bug me all to bad. but the screen lag is such that the mouse somewhat times out and the game gets abit slow.

I thought it was the AMD Dual-Core Optimizer so in uninstalled it.

Snake eye told me about FL and Duel core not getting along and told me about Affinity. so iv tryed that.

i thougth it was my sound ( Windows sound ) being at 24bit/48000 hz so i lowered it to 16.

but none of that worked. i checked the ENB files in Swwt. but that turned up with all settings off.

I posted in Hudshift request as to what i did to get 1366x768 to work. so you can have a look there as to what i did. im not sure if its GPU drivers or not. as i am unable to download them currently.

Another site you can look at for info on my problem is this site to.Swwt ENB also what all Dlls do i need to use. im only using jflp.dll and jflpac.dll.

Thanx for the update. i can see the change in the bar. its more pulled out from what it was. and thanx for putting up with me

warlordfmike wrote:
I have one problem with Widescreen not sure what it is.

Are you certain that you experience the lag only when in widescreen mode? Does it happen at 800x600?

And does the lag happen after running for a few minutes? Perhaps during an intense battle?

Heat is a common cause of intermittent lag. Make sure that your fans can exchange air freely, and consider adding addition fans to keep your computer cool.

If it is a heat-related problem, then it is important to fix it. Heat will shorten the lifetime of your computer – sometimes dramatically.

Na, its not a heat problem, it starts just as i log on to the game and comes and goes. at will. and i can play BF2 at the same screen size and with setting totaly maxed out and dont have the problem. im thinking it something to do with FL something on this laptop.

Now im not sure if it does it at 800x600. but i cant anymore fans as im on a laptop. so that cant be done. and the air blows out the side so its clear of anything blocking it.

just to note, its not a conneciton lag. thats why i call it a screen lag. as thats what i feel it is. maybe its the HD LED screen somehow.

I really dont think its a heat problem. a game such as this on a new laptop shouldnt to me cause alot of heat. as a morden day system would be able to handle old game such as FL with out having to work to hard.

warlordfmike wrote:
a game such as this on a new laptop shouldnt to me cause alot of heat.

On the contrary, any DirectX game will generate a lot of heat on a laptop, and Freelancer is notorious for it.

Feel the case, top and bottom. Is it warm when you have the lag problem? If so, then it is probably heat.

Here are two good solutions for laptops:

1. Raise your laptop off the desk, allowing air to flow freely under the laptop.

Then add an external fan, such as a small desk fan, to blow air under the laptop.

2. Use a laptop cooler that blows air up, toward the bottom of the laptop. Many coolers blow air down, which is stupid… it fights the fan inside your laptop.

You can make one yourself (hint: 12v case fans will work on 5v USB power – they will spin slowly, so use a large fan.)

There are many laptop coolers available. One that is cheap and highly functional is: Cheap Laptop Cooler (for desks, not for the lap)

Check your power saving profile, make sure you’re running the high performance plan if you’re gaming. Don’t play on battery power, this will seriously slow performance on a laptop, play plugged in. Lastly, it maybe a lot newer than the game, but depending on what integrated chipset you have, don’t always expect it to be able to play brilliantly. If you haven’t got a great deal of graphics memory available, expect a slow down in frame rate, many mods have really upped the requirements graphically in comparison to vanilla freelancer.

Try a lower resolution, see if it improves, also try vanilla freelancer and see if that runs fine at current res.

@Bullwinkle, Okay, no theres no heat problem here. the room im is cold. im freezing. i argee that fans blowing down is dumb.slaps fan makers but this laptop dont have funs on the bottom only one on the side.

the specs of my system are
AMD Turion II P540 Duel Core 2.40ghz, AMD Radeon HD 4250 with 256mb ram and hyper memory. 2gs ram and 500g hdd. so i dont think specs is a problem here. second i can run BF2 with no heat problems aswell and no frame rate lose and the settings are maxed out at 1366x768.

@Timmy51m, thanx for reminding me of that setting, i forgot about it. i dont use a laptops battery when i dont need to.

Maybe its just the stock drivers thats causing it. il get em soon as i can. and if that dont work. than il just live with this problem.

Well, I hope that you track down the source of your problem.

FWIW, room temperature is almost irrelevant. Electronics, especially graphics adapters, generate a lot of heat, which is quickly dissipated if enough air flows by. Without sufficient airflow, heat builds up rapidly. It doesn’t matter whether the room is freezing, if the air next to the chip is 100 degrees C.

Most laptops pull in air from the bottom and push it out the sides. Don’t look for warm air (that is the exhaust). Instead, look for intake vents. Blow air past them (or toward them) to cool the laptop.

Also, AMD chips tend to generate more heat than Intel chips.

I do not know what BF2 is, but a different program will use your computer differently. It is possible that some games might create less heat than Freelancer, but Freelancer is well-known for it. FL may not be the hottest game ever made, but it is definitely hot.

BF2 = Battlefield 2. sorry. im used to doing that in tech posts. shorting everthing. and the game should cause alittle more problems than Fl.

Iv always read that AMD chips run cooler than Intel and use less power. and to me they are. also more stable than Intel. ever time i have used Intel they seem to crash and over heat far to easly than AMD. which is why i went for a higher price laptop. and we all know that Intel GPUs are total crap. but were getting of subject here. and i dont want to be a jerk.

Theres only one spot on the bottom of the laptop that has a slot that looks like for intake. and FL dont seem to create any heat problems at all. BF2 does how ever seem to create alot of problems such as that. more so on my old pc.

Didnt mean to come off as jerk, never is my goal. but always tend to. Il let it slide til i can get my Video/Sound drivers. and see if that helps. until than, il play around with some settings and see if i can get it worked out. il keep what you guys said in mind.

Good luck.

I am not necessarily saying that you are having heat problems. I am simply pointing out that nothing you have said rules it out, and some of your beliefs are incorrect.

For example, Intel has far superior power management over AMD. Chips don’t really manage heat, but less power means less heat. There is a cool video on TomsHardware that illustrates this point. It shows an AMD chip and an Intel chip playing Doom 3 without their heatsinks. The AMD chip actually catches fire, while the Intel chip merely slows down.

Keep working at it. You will solve it.

@Bas: Sounds like you’re confusing Console with JFLP. You were never meant to save in space, especially during a mission, so unlucky. Hm, I must have forgot to mention in the readme that using Console during a mission could be risky. Sorry 'bout that. Likewise with cruise. It seems missions are very particular to speed and timing, as Rebalance 3.55 RC4 discovered.

@warlordfmike: I haven’t said anything, because I have no idea.

Sry, I was talking about SP console ^^

After doing some troubleshooting of my own. i managed to get rid of the screen/mouse lagg performance problem. not sure what it was. but i did the following

I stopped using Jason Patch ( Not installer, only Dlls. ) but stopped using it none the less.

Stopped using FLMM ( meaning i copyed over Fl with mod ).

Than using Swwt widescreen and Hudshift. updated Flconfig. and than went to performance tab ingame and just a tad lowered the detail silder just abit.

That all caused the screen/mouse lagg/slow performance to stop. but the blur is still there. that im sure is caused by the HD LED screen.

So im not at all sure what caused the lagg or what not. so one of those is causing it. if not a mix of one or the other. And its not heat related as iv done nothing to stop or slow heat problems.

Thanx for all the advice/support

Reducing the video performance slider is the most likely of those changes to reduce any screen lag problems.

(It also will reduce the heat generated by your graphics adapter, by the way.)

Anyway, I am glad that you solved your problem.

Stopped using FLMM ( meaning i copyed over Fl with mod ).

FYI: This might be not suhc a good idea since some FLMM-archives contain scripts which get parsed by FLMM. The content of the scripts will be missing in your FL then.

unless you understand the script and apply its functions manually

For the most part theres alot of things that FLMM can cause. like script problems and FLbak being maded. along some other things. which all can cause some sort for problem either with Jason freelancer patch,Hudshift or the mod it self. either way some where down the road FLMM can cause all types of problems. to me in some cases even performance problems.

@Gisteron, True. but for the most part. people that dont know all the techy stuff could get lost in how to do it that way. and would be best to just stop using FLMM and just unzip the mod and than just copy over the FL fresh install. as its the same thing that FLMM does. but it makes all types of things and does things to the install of FL/Mod on the fly such as FLbak. which to me causes problems.

Plus. FLMM is out of date and has stopped being updated. i have 1.5 beta 1 installed and its not even for use in Vista or even Win 7 so that it self can cause problems. plus FLmm is not perfect in the way it handles mods and your files to the game.

Just my deep thoughts. not sure if any of it makes sense. and this is getting of topic. mybad.

warlordfmike wrote:
Plus. FLMM is out of date and has stopped being updated. i have 1.5 beta 1 installed and its not even for use in Vista or even Win 7

There’s half your problem to start with. 1.5 is rubbish, if you want to screw up FL then carry on using it. Go back to 1.3, it’s the most stable version, only files i’ve seen it leave in are custom system folders, everything else is returned to normal if you use the ‘RESTORE BACKUPS’ function after de-activating a mod