Thanks for the input. I tried it, but again there was no change.

OK, here are some screenshots. The first two show the problem, and the last one shows how it stops when I hover over the cancel button.

Thanks for the welcome. I downloaded the other flconfigdatabase you recommended and I have tried using both it and the one in the quickfix patch. Unfortunately there was no change.

Hello everyone. I never played this great game when it came out, but I had always heard good things about it. I picked up a cheap copy the other day looking for older games that I can play on my laptop. I have a Lenovo 3000 series running 32-bit Vista Home Premium (Service Pack 2), Intel Dual Core T2080 CPU, 2GB RAM, and an Intel GMA 950 256MB integrated GPU. After installation, I got the well-documented failure to recognize my graphics card error and the annoying Intel text flickering. Otherwise the game plays wonderfully with no other errors at max settings. However after a lot of searching and researching, I decided to do the following:

• uninstall Freelancer

• download official v1.1 patch

• download the newest unofficial quickfix patch from The Starport (supposed to fix this problem thanks to the revamped flconfigdatabase file)

• installed newest 945 chipset family drivers for my GMA 950

• installed the newest update for Direct X 10

• fully updated Windows Vista (including Service Pack 2)

• reinstalled Freelancer

• applied the quickfix patch

• applied the v1.1 patch

• restarted the game

This time it recognized my graphics card, so I thought the problem would be solved, but the text flickering is still there in almost every menu screen (like the ship dealer, for example). If I turn on rollover help, I can get it to stop temporarily by rolling over any of the buttons, but it starts again every time I move the mouse off the buttons. When I looked at the flconfigdatabase file, I noticed a comment detailing two other possible text fixes: reinstalling the text files from the CD, and reinstalling the MSXML parser from the CD, so I:

• copy/pasted/overwrote the text files from the CD to my Windows Fonts folder (however I did not reinstall the text .ini files from the CD because the quickfix patch includes some new .ini’s and I didn’t want to mess anything up)
• ran the MSXML install .exe from the CD again

Unfortunately this did not solve the problem. I have tried every documented fix for this Intel issue I could find on this site and the rest of the web to no avail. I still persistently have the text flickering problem, and it’s driving me crazy ??? I really want to play this game, are there any gurus on here who have any ideas for me?