Leaving a post here to remind myself of this topic as it relates to my installer/launcher/patcher project.

Placing a post here just so I can find it again later. This thread contains useful info to help me develop a new installer/launcher/patcher.

By them at least, yes.

PS: Bas, you elite by your post count (1337) I just noticed

I think he’s talking about the interest at GOG (petition) it has a good large number of people wanting it.

Adoxa,

Any issues with me including that in an all in-one patch?

I’ve pretty much solved this anyways:

I am going to simply offer the following as components to be ticked/unticked.

1. JFLP patch (or whatever final patch we can come up with)
2. Widescreen
3. JFLP DLL, with a warning that it may be seen as cheating on some servers.

Any dacom.ini particular edits will be done post-install by after script.

I think that will cover most bases tbh.
Anything else you think I should add guys?

I want a clean base for all future modding when I have done the new installer/launcher I am working on for Freelancer. This is why I want a universal patch.

Easier for debugging for the reasons you mentioned. So I will likely take you up on that, or, join our Discord so we can work on it together, myself and a few big names in the modding community are there too trying to create a Freelancer global community > https://discord.gg/tnrm4CB

I think I should implement one without JFLP, and allow for the one with JFLP as an installation option with the patch not enabled by default.

Basicaly I wish to create a one-click patch for the most up to date base we have. But I also want that to be compatible for everyone to use with current mods out there as a base patch.

robocop wrote:
I put together a patch at one point that eliminates all errors still identified in FLErrorChecker and FLScan as well as most of the errors generated in the FL console view. It’s incorporated in our mod (FLUAddon mod). I can’t recall if those fixes are identified specifically in the mod though.

Are you implying there that JFLP does not contain all possible fixes? As that’s what I am looking to arrange for everyone, so I’d like advice on what to include on top of JFLP.

Can you point out what errors remain that can be fixed?

Just wishing to confirm before I build a up to date patch for Freelancer.

I was going to go with Quickfix and JFLP as a base, but I believe that some servers identify that as cheating still?

Also, I wanted to query, do the major mods remaining use a different patch base that would cause issues if Quickfix/JFLP was used as a base, with the respective mod extracted on top?

Thanks!

What patch are you using? Just use the DLL and add an entry into dacom.ini in the EXE folder

[Libraries]
;;;dosfile.dll
ReadFile.dll	;optimized read-only version of dosfile.dll
x86math.dll
EngBase.dll
system.dll
RP8.dll
SoundStreamer.dll
SoundManager.dll
MP3codec.dll
Deformable2.dll
Thorn.dll
Shading.dll
RendComp.dll
alchemy.dll
ximage.dll
flmaterials.dll
gls_workaround.dll <---- here

You think you have problems, I can’t even remember what email address I had for my original Zyos account (it’s many years ago now) to be able to reset the password.

Don’t make this AI too OP man, nobody will want to fight it when you stick it in a mod

But yeah this would be good for those practising on low pop servers, keep their jousting skills on par

@Adoxa

I would have thought you would have been running latest W10 to make use of WSL2 for a development environment, it’s good.

Are there still things that don’t run on W10? Or do you just not like it, I resisted it at first, but quickly started to enjoy it.

Robo, is your W10 a clean ISO/install? My only remaining thought…

I was just taking a stab in the dark, as I recently built a new W10 image and the all in one VC runtime and the above are the only things I baked into it and I am able to run the save editor just fine. So I’m tapped out of ideas as to why it’s not working for him.

Do you have the top 2 .NET’s enabled in Turn Windows Features on or off?

https://i.imgur.com/aNvuVeX.png

I am using the Simple Save Editor, and I was able to use it to modify MP character files… seemed to work well enough.

I attached it.
If it doesn’t work I can only assume your system is missing some library DLLs, I use the all in one VC runtime.

Yeah that stuff is awesome but it’s not something that can just be applied like reshade etc. Its a lot of changes to models and textures etc too.

Generally for me it’s install game, then 1.1, then JFLP, then I add in the various little file fixes cos I’m never sure which ones are included in JFLP. You know the zlib, mp3codec, no-cd etc.

Dromedary wrote:
@ Bolte

Not on Windows 10, best to install it in any other directory than the default. I’ve had nothing but aggravation if i use the default path, install it anywhere else, no issues

I am using Windows 10…
And yes, sometimes it can cause issues when manipulating files in certain directories. Most of that can be solved by running as Administrator though.