Hi there,

three days ago I have begun trying to play the great Freelancer game again, remembering how I loved the changing ships and parts of the universe some years ago.

Sadly, it does not work. My computer does play every other game I have in my archives, older games - like Incubation or the rusty Wing Commander Prophecy - and new ones like the latest Need for Speed Releases or Civilization Beyond the sword.

Freelancer, however, installs like perfect, play the movies, shows the “Freelancer” logo screen, and then I’m back on the Windows desktop, without any hint or warning.

I have a Athlon64 3200+, 1 Gig of ram, 2 Geforce GT6600 cards for SLI Graphics, running with Windows XP (all updates installed).

I have tried the official 1.1 patch in German and English/International and the unofficial “Quickfix 1.0c”. I have also tried numerous reinstalls. The CD has shown no errors. Copy protection is not an issue, I am using the original German CD. I have tried running a “No-CD-patch”, hoping to solve the issue.

Anyone has any idea why the game doesn’t start? Thanks in advance for all responses.