Alright, well I ended up just playing through the single player campaign with only the texture upgrade. It was only a modest change but I decided that since I hadnt played in so long I might as well play the original game first to get reacquainted with gameplay and stuff. It was good to revisit some of the missions.

Anyways, now that I’ve played through the storyline and gotten reacquainted with the game, I’m willing to try the mods that cant be played with the campaign and possibly make significant changes to gameplay. I am however, still wanting to stick with the same general atmosphere, so I’m not interested in total conversions or major style changes.

I was thinking about giving Discovery, Crossfire, or Shattered Worlds a try. All three seem to be pretty popular and have a lot of support, while not making the original game completely unrecognizable. I’m certainly open to suggestions.

Out of curiosity, do any mods remove the linear progression of missions and equipment of Liberty -> Bretonia -> Kusari -> Rheinland? I always through it was really goofy from an RP/atmosphere perspective. It seems like for multiplayer it would make more sense to make each faction equalish. Just a thought.

If anyone has an comments or ideas, they’re more than welcome. I figure I’ll probably start trying mods more or less one by one anyways, but starting with some focus is always good. I might have to copy my Freelancer installation into a couple different directories so I can try multiple mods simultaneously. How well does that work?

Thanks Adoxa.

That fixed it right there.

I have the newest hardware update. I’m not sure why I’m getting the warning message. The game seems to be running correctly so far.

Hey all,

Like many others, I’ve been trying to get Freelancer to run in proper widescreen (1920x1080 in this case) and like many others, I have been pointed to Jason’s Freelancer Patch.

The issue is it doesn’t appear to be working.

Just to be sure, I installed everything in the following order

Freelancer -> 1.1 patch -> JFLP -> Hardware support update -> JFLP (again, because it didn’t seem to be working the first time)

I also installed FLDMM and activated the HD Texture 1.2 pack.

I ran the game and immediately found out that I need to run it in compatibility mode in order for the game to work (I’m using Win7). No big deal. I turn that on and get a warning message stating that the game does not recognize my video card (Radeon 4850). I thought this was odd because I installed the hardware update.

Game comes up (but doesn’t play the opening logs or cinematic) and arrives at the menu in some godawful resolution. I went to the option screen and the options it lists are
1024x768x16
1152x768x16
1280x960x16
1600x1200x16
1024x768x32
1152x768x32
1280x960x32
1600x1200x32

Did I screw something up here?

I’ve never really messed with mods or unofficial software so I dont know if its typical for stuff to just not work for everyone or I goofed up somewhere.

Thanks for the replies all. I discovered moddb has pretty much every mod ever made for the game on it and with lots of information and link for each of them, and that’s helped a lot.

Hey all,

It seems there’s been a serious lack of space sim games lately so I’ve been going back through some of my old games and am trying to find some mods to spice them up.

Anyways, I’m having some trouble sorting through all the mods on various websites because there often isn’t enough documentation to figure out which mods are the sort of thing I’m looking for or what additional software or fixes are needed to make them work.

I guess the first thing to do after I finish installing the game is get the mod manager. Does it work really well or are clean installs necessary with most mods anyways?

Next I need to figure out which mods I want to try first. Basically I’m looking for something that will allow me to play through the original single player campaign; hopefully with some graphics improvements and gameplay tweaks to make it a new experience. Most mods appear to be designed for multiplayer and its difficult to tell which ones work with single player.

The two that I saw that definitely work with SP campaign that I saw were the Before FP7 mod and the Discovery mod. I dont know if either really have any graphics improvements but I imagine I can add some of the generic texture improvements to any mod if I wanted to.

Does anyone have any other recommendations or tips to help me get started?