Windows 7 problem

Karoleen

Ok, here is my problem. I am using an ASUS N71 series laptop, with windows 7 installed. I am having problem running Freelancer, which is annoyingly persistent.

Freelancer installs fine (meaning no errors), but when I actually try to play, I am unable to do so. Freelancer.exe dosen’t run at all, dosen’t even register as a task in task manager (i don’t even notice a process Freelancer.exe in process list). Freelancer server amazingly works fine (at least I think so, it certanly runs). Freelancer is not the first game i’ve had this problem with, it happened with Vice city as well (other games, like Sid Meier’s Civilisation III, Skyrim and The old republic, to name a few work without problems).

Things I tried.

Followed Freelancer installer to a letter.
Installing it in different directory (I always instal to anyway)
Disabling all apps that could interefere (AdAware and SpybotSD disabled, BitDefender on GameMode; it would throw out a warning if it would block it anyway)
Disabled DEP for Freelacner.exe
Updated graphics driver
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J.Walker

try some of these ideas:

run it with administrator privileges
run it in compatibility mod for Win XP or Win Vista
Check your AV to see if it is being falsely accused of being a virus or malware.

Karoleen

Did, did and did.

If i run it in compat mode/admin mode, I get permission check, after which blank again.

And I did check antivirus (BitDefender), which had no reports in log, meaning no actiuons taken.

Schmackbolzen

Maybe old savegames. Freelancer loads them on startup and crahes if you have e.g. a mod installed where certain things don’t exists (or broken files etc).

Huor

you can use dependencywalker and load the freelancer.exe file into it. just to make sure you have all dlls that are required.

Karoleen

Solved the problem.

It seems there wasn’t a problem in game itself, but rather with windows OS. I solved the problem by picking a tip from Microsoft community, to run sfc.exe, to cehck system files for problems. System file checker found some problems and fixed them and now FL works fine.