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BA0100000090 freelancer.exe 1B264C cannon keep FL display running when the window doesn’t have focus

I believe this is the cause of issues when alt-tab’ing from fullscreen;

WARNING: RenderMgr - failed to create_buffers(1024,768) 32,-1

Basically it flashes to black screen and then stays there, clicking anywhere brings the window back into focus (I presume) without any visuals, just sound.

Sorry if this has already been covered, it’s quite difficult to troubleshoot through this thread xD

Any way to fix this?

\m/

content.dll   0518C7  34->00 = allow fc_n_grp for randommissions PART 1 ~adoxa
content.dll   0519B7  34->00 = allow fc_n_grp for randommissions PART 2 ~adoxa
content.dll   0BD2D8  00->01 = allow fc_n_grp to drop (phantom) loot ~adoxa

common.dll   139B74   905332->C0DE26 = use thruster hp_type for cloaking device ~adoxa
common.dll   139B74   905332->50DB26 = place cloaking devices on countermeasure hardpoints ~adoxa
common.dll   139B74   905332->40172D = use cloaking device as internal equipment ~adoxa, He||oween

I have managed with this by adoxa’s help ))

And …

Freelancer.exe   131D2B   0F94C0->B00190 = activate lightsource_cone ~adoxa

server.dll   06BFA6   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on creating MP character
server.dll   06E10D   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on saving character/game
server.dll   07399D   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on creating restart file

Yay for Fox being back! Woot!

Nice work, Fox.

I’m going to try to update the wiki page later.

Surprised this one hasn’t already been posted: Does anyone know what changes are needed for the no-CD patch?

Huh, you may compare two binary files and get offset, but is it l3g@l?

FriendlyFire already posted the no-CD patched freelancer.exe in the downloads section: http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=2649

So I would assume so, yes.

No-CD patches are a gray area, but considering many bargain bin (yet still official) versions of FL include one, I don’t think they’d bother anymore

Doubtful. As far as I know, the original EXE is encrypted to a certain extent. The No-CD EXE has patches on top of a full decryption of said EXE.

Just spent the last hour and a half updating the wiki. Pretty sure most things are on there now.

I wrote a simple PHP script to read lines out of a file and convert them into the right format for the wiki. Each one of these lines is assumed to be in the same format as used for Fox’s text file. Obviously, it will not work with Adoxa’s max MP credit hack. Consider it WTFPL licensed.

", "-->", $secondsplit[0]);
        $comment = substr($secondsplit[1], 0, strpos($secondsplit[1], "~") - 1);
        $author = substr($secondsplit[1], strpos($secondsplit[1], "~") + 1);

        echo "|".$defaultvalue."\t||".$file."\t||".$offset."\t||".$author."\t||".$comment."\r\n|-\r\n";
}
?>

@FF & @Fox

No one prevents you to unpack/decrypt the CD dependent version.
There are unpackers/decryptors in bulk at the inet.

@Fox, Sorry I forgot about credits - copy-pasted as is )) Fix please, it is Adoxa:

server.dll   06BFA6   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on creating MP character ~adoxa
server.dll   06E10D   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on saving character/game ~adoxa
server.dll   07399D   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on creating restart file ~adoxa

So has anybody ever been able to find out how to make asteroids spawn more than 130 K from the system centre?

It would be really amazing if someone could publish a working solution.

there are offsets known where you specify ingame distance units. scaling everything down would at least be a workaround.

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3031

Considering you yourself have asked for this before and gotten a working solution in return, I’m not exactly sure I’m following you…

Maybe you haven’t considered that the “solution” may not be working at all.

Then why didn’t you follow up on that thread? I’m fairly sure adoxa expected the solution to work, and not replying to a solution tends to be a tacit way of saying it works.

Your apparent aggressiveness is rather misplaced.

Does anyone have a hack that would narrow the window of the player jumpin point when using jumpgates/jump holes?

Right now a player spawns at a random point within +/- 550m of the jumpin point when jumping into a system. I’d like to narrow that window to 50m, or even tighter for a specific jump. I’m going to guess it’s an all or nothing deal, i.e. if you do it for one it will work that way for all, but I can deal with that.