Can't seem to figure out the problem, please help

Shifumii · wrote on 9 Sept 2019, 00:08

Hi,
I installed Freelancer in the hopes of playing it again after many, many years.
Ofcourse I got the 3d card not recognised thing and tried everything I could find to fix it.
I added my graphics card to the list, started as admin, started in compatability mode for winXP SP3, put my screen resolution to 1024x768, installed the quickfix patch, 1.1 patch, jflp patch, and even reinstalled it in D:\Freelancer and still it does not work.

My specs are:
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
16GB DDR4 1600MHz RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
WIndows 10 Pro

If theres any other info you need or if theres anything I did not try please tell me since I really want to play the game again.

Sincerely,
Shifumii

robocop · wrote on 9 Sept 2019, 02:04

Is there a checkbox in the dialogue box that says to not check for the video card issue? If so, have you checked it?

I have a nVidia GTX 760 on an i7 3770K system and the only thing I’ve changed is running the program in compatibility mode for WinXP sp3. This is on a Win7Pro system.

No problems here.

Shifumii · wrote on 9 Sept 2019, 07:33

I do not mean the box in the beginning, I meant the crash error you get after you start the game proper. I do not get the box in the beginning at all.

Laz · wrote on 9 Sept 2019, 09:23

Try clearing out any saves that may be located inside of C:\Users\You\My Documents\My Games\Freelancer
If you’re running Windows 10, make sure you’ve installed DirectPlay from Legacy components (Control Panel -> Turn Windows Feature On/Off)

Shifumii · wrote on 9 Sept 2019, 10:24

I’ve turned on DirectPlay, forgot to add that to the first post, and I have never played on this pc before so no save files, I even checked.

robocop · wrote on 10 Sept 2019, 01:45

I wonder if you need to install an earlier version of DirectX…

Wilko300 · wrote on 10 Sept 2019, 15:05

windows 10 try using that no cd patch

Shifumii · wrote on 10 Sept 2019, 23:22

DId that, forgot to add to OP as well, sorry.
As for older versions of directx, Is there a way to get them witout having to get rid of my current version?

Jeider · wrote on 11 Sept 2019, 06:13

Try to remove files from DATA/MOVIES

Shifumii · wrote on 11 Sept 2019, 09:24

Tried removing MOVIES, doesn’t seem to work.

robocop · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 01:21

Shifumii wrote:
DId that, forgot to add to OP as well, sorry.
As for older versions of directx, Is there a way to get them witout having to get rid of my current version?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429

Should install alongside whatever version you have now.

Shifumii · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 09:05

I can’t install it on win10 it seems

starworld · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 12:45

good link :
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Shifumii · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 13:43

Installed the DIrectX you linked, still doesn’t seem to work.

J.R. · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 14:52

I´m now trying to hunt down the Problem of yours… since we didn´t have any issues to run Freelancer on WIN 10-systems as long as you follow these steps:

1. Deinstall all previous installs of Freelancer.

If still existing:

2. Delete all remaining Files and Folders of the game-Location manually.

3. Delete “User/mydocuments/mygames/freelancer” folder.

4. (Maybe do a registry-clean with CCleaner or such)
After all this do a clean reboot of the PC.

From this point on MAKE SURE TO DO EVERY INSTALL AS ADMIN !!!

5. Do a clean “vanilla” install on a partition or drive which is NOT home of your OS !!!
AND try to install the DirectX-Version which comes with the original Copy of Freelancer (Theres a Folder on the CD)

(If prompted do a reboot after that.)

6. Install the OFFICIAL Patch of MS called 1.1 (although this doesnt change the version number to 1.1 it fixes some major bugs regarding account-creation and such)

7. Make sure to enable the Win-system-features “DirectPlay” AND “NET.Framework 3.5” (Install it if missing)

8. Replace “Freelancer.exe” with the NO-CD-Patch Version.

9. Make sure that no Anti-Virus or Firewall is blocking or deleting any Game-Content/Files or functions.

10. Try to start the game AS IS (no compatibilty-mode but AS ADMIN) and see how far you can get.

Please report in after that and we can try something else… (just for testing purposes)

Greetings

J.R.

J.R. · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 15:29

BTW:

Here´s a config-data-base which should fix your graphics-card issue/warning.

PLS extract this into Freelancer/EXE-Folder…

Greetings

J.R.

Shifumii · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 16:06

J.R. wrote:
I´m now trying to hunt down the Problem of yours… since we didn´t have any issues to run Freelancer on WIN 10-systems as long as you follow these steps:

1. Deinstall all previous installs of Freelancer.

If still existing:

2. Delete all remaining Files and Folders of the game-Location manually.

3. Delete “User/mydocuments/mygames/freelancer” folder.

4. (Maybe do a registry-clean with CCleaner or such)
After all this do a clean reboot of the PC.

From this point on MAKE SURE TO DO EVERY INSTALL AS ADMIN !!!

5. Do a clean “vanilla” install on a partition or drive which is NOT home of your OS !!!
AND try to install the DirectX-Version which comes with the original Copy of Freelancer (Theres a Folder on the CD)

(If prompted do a reboot after that.)

6. Install the OFFICIAL Patch of MS called 1.1 (although this doesnt change the version number to 1.1 it fixes some major bugs regarding account-creation and such)

7. Make sure to enable the Win-system-features “DirectPlay” AND “NET.Framework 3.5” (Install it if missing)

8. Replace “Freelancer.exe” with the NO-CD-Patch Version.

9. Make sure that no Anti-Virus or Firewall is blocking or deleting any Game-Content/Files or functions.

10. Try to start the game AS IS (no compatibilty-mode but AS ADMIN) and see how far you can get.

Please report in after that and we can try something else… (just for testing purposes)

Greetings

J.R.

Alright I reinstalled following your instructions, and started the game.

First I get the EULA which I accepted.
Then I got:

I press yes, and the screen goes fully black.
Then after a little bit I get this message:

And that’s all.

Shifumii · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 16:37

Ah I didn’t see the page two, but after adding the flconfig I don’t get
anymore

however the screen still goes fully black and this message still appears:

J.R. · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 19:28

Ok… thx for the reply.
This seems to be a major issue with the Graphics… maybe we can get the game started by skipping the Intro-Movies:

Disable the Startup movies in the “EXE/freelancer.ini” like this:

[Startup]
;movie_file = movies\MGS_Logo_Final.wmv
;movie_file = movies\DA_Logo_Final.wmv
;movie_file = movies\FL_Intro.wmv

If this doesn´t help, there´s only one thing left to try…. (at least from my side) but lets check this option first…

Greetings
J.R.

Shifumii · wrote on 12 Sept 2019, 19:34

Didn’t work, still get the black fullscreen and error message like before.