Freelancer and Win10 Anniversary Ed.

Hey all,

Been looking at firing Vanilla Freelancer back up for years. Last time I played it, I had XP running.

I searched everywhere before posting and have tried numerous things to get Freelancer working on Win10 Anniversary Ed. Installed as per norm, applied the patch and NO-CD.exe. But whenever I start a new game it crashes back out to the desktop; “Freelancer has stopped working”.

I have enabled legacy options from within ‘Windows features’ and have enabled / disabled .NET framework versions also with no success. Running the .exe file as Admin, running it in Compatibility Mode for WinXP iterations and Win7. All to no avail.

Kinda lost at this point and I’m gathering I’m going to have to bite the bullet and roll back to Win7. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here are my system specs just in case anyone can spot something odd:

• Windows 10 Home 64-bit

• Intel Core i7 2670QM @ 2.20GHz

• 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3

• 3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

NET Frameworks installed

• v4.7 Full
• v4.7 Client
• v3.5 SP1
• v3.0 SP2
• v2.0 SP2

J.R. wrote:
Did you also activate the “DirectPlay” in Windows-Features?
Its needed by FL to run as well…

greetings
J.R.

Yep activated it under the legacy option. The game itself launches and gets to the main menu. I can switch between menu options, change settings etc… It only crashes when a new game is launched.

I have even disabled my anti-virus and firewall software while launching the game. Still get the same result.

Here is a snapshot of the error from the event logs.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          6/29/2017 9:29:51 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Tappaz_RoG
Description:
Faulting application name: freelancer.exe, version: 1.0.1223.11, time stamp: 0x3e401b79
Faulting module name: Common.dll, version: 1.0.1254.11, time stamp: 0x3ecbb141
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000c22fe
Faulting process id: 0x3fe4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d2f0caf8121715
Faulting application path: D:\Games\Freelancer\EXE\freelancer.exe
Faulting module path: D:\Games\Freelancer\EXE\Common.dll
Report Id: 07db2862-29e9-44dd-89c3-6cdbd200321a
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Event Xml:
 <event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><system><provider name="Application Error"><eventid qualifiers="0">1000</eventid>
    <level>2</level>
    <task>100</task>
    <keywords>0x80000000000000</keywords>
    <timecreated systemtime="2017-06-29T11:29:51.165364800Z"><eventrecordid>4649</eventrecordid>
    <channel>Application</channel>
    <computer>Tappaz_RoG</computer></timecreated></provider></system> 
  <eventdata><data>freelancer.exe</data>
    <data>1.0.1223.11</data>
    <data>3e401b79</data>
    <data>Common.dll</data>
    <data>1.0.1254.11</data>
    <data>3ecbb141</data>
    <data>c0000005</data>
    <data>000c22fe</data>
    <data>3fe4</data>
    <data>01d2f0caf8121715</data>
    <data>D:\Games\Freelancer\EXE\freelancer.exe</data>
    <data>D:\Games\Freelancer\EXE\Common.dll</data>
    <data>07db2862-29e9-44dd-89c3-6cdbd200321a</data>
    <data></data> 
    <data></data></eventdata></event> 

Laz wrote:
Have you tried deleting any saves or restart.fl in the my games folder, assuming there are any still there that is.

Legend!

Deleting the restart.fl worked this time. The bizarre thing was this was after a clean installation so there was no saved games to speak of and I had removed that directory before.

Anywho it works now so thanks J.R and Laz. Greatly appreciated for the help