Re: Freelancer and Windows 10

Im pretty sure that both, the original game and the mod work very well under windows 8.
Just follow the installation instructions and you will be fine.

And when i used windows 8 does’t work than also Freelancer Crossfire 2.0

but that does not have anything to do with the mod or with windows 8

the mod was tested prior its release under windows 7, 8 and 10
there are plenty of players which use it with windows 8

I’m still getting a sudden crash after the movies on Windows 10, and I am using the NoCD file indicated… Surely there must be something else I can check or try.

EDIT: found the issue, corrupted old save files

After you use the CD Crack and you’re still having issues running the game, Go to programs and features from your control panel. then click “Turn Windows Features On or Off” and you will need to check the box called “Legacy Components”… WINDOWS FEATURES ARE WHERE IT’S AT… It’s not a permissions issue.

I know you’re happy to have found the problem for you, but the last relevant poster here already mentioned what their problem was, and it wasn’t that. Plus, this has been dead for almost half a year.

I’d appreciate if you could only post your advice when it is actually relevant.

with every new windows update it is getting harder and harder to play the game thanks to this community and discovery for keeping this game alive

There’s literally not been a single update for Windows 10 that affected Freelancer.

It worked great! And Thank you for the work around.

Is there one for StarLancer???

http://swat-portal.com/forum/wsif/index.php/Entry/868-NO-CD-Patch/

Talking about Starlancer, is there a way to force it 24bit colors depth? Because the color depth is really low on recent OSs.

dunno
havent tried it in years

hack-wizard wrote:
I’m still getting a sudden crash after the movies on Windows 10, and I am using the NoCD file indicated… Surely there must be something else I can check or try.

EDIT: found the issue, corrupted old save files

Just to save everyone else the three hours I spent today on this, the “corrupted save file” can be a restart.fl file created by the install or a failed start, on a clean/new installation.

So if you’ve checked everything else and you’re still crashing after the movies, check for save files in the users(username)\documents\my games folder (or equivalent depending on your version of Windows).

so….I installed the game trued the save thing and every time I get to the hanger or something the game just goes to a background process and i have to use task manager to kill it. I installed takagi’s treasure because I thought it had the swordfish 2 from cowboy bebop in it (and couldn’t find an outlaw star mod) and I’m wondering if that is causing it to crash. I’m going to try uninstalling and reinstalling tomorrow if it’s just takagi then hopefully that will fix it. if it doesn’t any help would be appreciated. Also, I am using the no-cd patch thing.

What version of Tekagis are you running? If its the current one v5.49 then I should mention its not setup atm for single player (I’m assuming you attempted a SP game, since I havent seen any new characters on the server). Some of the older ones support SP.
But going back to your problem, the current version works with most peoples win10 install (but not always flawless without tweaks)…if you’ve applied the NoCD patch then that could be your issue…tekagis has been packaged with its own NoCD freelancer.exe for ages that includes other edits as well so shouldnt be replaced.

Edit: And yes, the swordfish is in there

I’m running 5.48 (trying to anyways) yes in SP. I just did what it said and used everything in the takagi folders. the no-cd I put in before the takagi stuff. So from the sounds of it if I want to use takagi I should be in MP or just find the swordfish separate if I want it. so that answers my question of if I have to do a fresh install or not.

v5.48.2 should work in SP, 5.48.3 might not (i cant recall)
But ya best bet is to try with a vanilla install and see if the problem persists

Gonna do a fresh install now but I think I see what I did. I downloaded the latest version from mod db and it had tekagi 5.48 and 5.48 UPDATE which you need for MP. I know I put in the update (which I didn’t need to now that I know it was for MP) so after it finishes installing I’m going to try it without the update and just the original files. Here’s hoping it works fine. I’m also going to download 5.48.2 anyways just in case.

Edit: Yup that looks like it was the problem. It seems to be fine now. all i did was start it to see if it crashed tho so I’ll give it some time to see if it happens again.

Edit #2: well it all works with no problems. now I just need to figure out how to get to where the swordfish is so I can buy it and I’ll be set

the 5.48e on moddb was pieced together by one of our admins who really had no clue what he was doing at the time…so I’m not even sure if it works properly. If you want a 5.48.2 that you can use for SP, best bet is in the downloads here.
https://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=8&lid=2668