Well this is interesting. Looks like me renaming d3d8.dll and the game launching was just a fluke because today it wouldn’t launch again. Same thing happens… I quickly see the Freelancer splash screen then back to desktop… then 5 seconds later a notice telling me it crashed.

But I KNEW it worked and I didn’t change anything. So I just kept launching it. And on the 4th try it ran just fine. I put in d3d8.dll and it ran again. Then after I quit and tried again it wouldn’t until I tried about 3 times.

Really weird. Never had this happened to me before but… I guess I have a workaround. I just hope this doesn’t suddenly stop working one day

renaming d3d8.dll fixed it!

Do I lose out on some effects because this is no longer loaded or does the d3d9 take over everything?

If I lose some stuff, what do you recommend to make d3d8 work?

Hi Hrimthur,

I installed your file on my Win8 x64 machine but now freelancer crashes as soon as it tries to start. Also, is there a way to uninstall?

Can I send you a log file somehow so you can see why it crashed?