Thanks Raik, that was the problem… Dummy me.
Worked fine with a brand new vanilla character. Once I got FLMM working properly everything loads fine.
Sometimes you just need to work out these things by talking it out with someone else.
Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

Running Windows 11 Pro.
Game installs fine, noCD patch applied, no other mods.
Game opens fine, I get to the character selection screen, select my char, enter game, and a black window opens up and nothing…
When I alt-tab out to switch the black window closes and Freelancer.exe is not running in task manager.
What’s up?

On the state graph errors in FLServer Console view…
I’ve checked all of the state_graphs in Missions/npcshiparch.ini as well as all of the missions npcshiparch files. They’re all correct to my eye.

Any place else I should look?

Yeah, I couldn’t find what I needed in those files, I found the entry in the registry and after a reboot all is well.
Apparently FLAC can’t start FLServer with the -l switch applied.

NM, found it in the registry. Hope it works.

Grrrr
Anyone remember where the configuration files for FLAC are kept? I added the -l switch to the command line in FLAC and now FLAC can’t start FLServer and the Configuration page won’t open up to allow me to undo the change.

All the shiparch entries in npcshiparch.ini appear to be correct, no mispellings, and as near as I can tell, none are missing a state_graph assignment.
I’ll just have to keep an eye on it.

Well, turns out I misread a ‘d’ to be a ‘9’
Oxa10d6c43 is the Eagle (ge_fighter6)
It occurs to me that HPRunningLight09 and 10 are the ones on the lower wing of the Eagle. Some guys run with the rear wing shot off in order to make a slightly smaller target.
That’s probably what’s causing the loadout error.

Still trying to hunt down the State Graph error.

Huh…
0xa1096c43 translates to 2701749315 which does not show up in the hash list.
Is it possible that’s caused by something a client is doing?

Does this run outside of FLServer? In other words, FLServer can be running but by running the shortcut command with the -l switch would gen the file?
Where is the file saved?

Thank you CRCTool was the tool I was looking for.

Another question - flspew.txt is normally found at \Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Freelancer\FLSpew.txt
I don’t have that location on our Windows7 server. Is that file only generated by freelancer.exe and not flserver.exe?

Or, is there another location? I’d like to see if flspew reports any errors on the server side.

Ummm, also, how do I edit a post?

I’ve been getting some server errors that I’m having trouble tracking down. Mostly my rememberator doesn’t work like it should anymore…

I need help remember which utility can identify components when referred to by FLServer as for example,
WARNING: CExternalEquip Object (0xa1096c43) missing hardpoint [HPRunningLight09] for item (0xa703710d)

Also, what does the following error indicate?
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Common\Ai\BehaviorManager.cpp[206]: *** WARNING:IBehaviorManager: state graph not found in database!

Please point me in the right direction

Thanks

Try installing the game to C:\Microsoft\Freelancer instead of to the Program Files directory.
When you install it, right click on the exe and choose run as administrator.
Let’s start there.

Dang… I hoped my acknowledgement would cause you to surrender victory.

Yes you did

no you din’t

Ever play cops and robbers when you were younger?
I got you!! no you din’t, no you din’t, you missed me…

No you didn’t…

@DragonFire One project at a time?

Really nice job. It’ll take me a little bit to get used to the new look but very much appreciate your keeping TSP alive.