After more examination (and failed launches) I believe the problem may lie with Direct3d, which is part of Directx

Actually the log gave me a bit of information:

It repeats the errors:
WARNING:General:create_device: D3DERR_DRIVERINTERNALERROR
WARNING: RenderMgr - failed to create_buffers(1024,768) 32,-1

About 3 times

Making me think that indeed should try something with the resolution, or rollback on drivers since I updated them yesterday to see if that would fix the problem.

Hmmmm, is there any way to get a log from Freelancer itself so we could see what it’s trying to do exactly? That would certainly help alot.

Alright I installed it and did the compatability check.
Everything was green, but when I tried to start it the same black fullscreen with a message popped up except this time in german.

Didn’t work, still get the black fullscreen and error message like before.

Ah I didn’t see the page two, but after adding the flconfig I don’t get
anymore

however the screen still goes fully black and this message still appears:

J.R. wrote:
I´m now trying to hunt down the Problem of yours… since we didn´t have any issues to run Freelancer on WIN 10-systems as long as you follow these steps:

1. Deinstall all previous installs of Freelancer.

If still existing:

2. Delete all remaining Files and Folders of the game-Location manually.

3. Delete “User/mydocuments/mygames/freelancer” folder.

4. (Maybe do a registry-clean with CCleaner or such)
After all this do a clean reboot of the PC.

From this point on MAKE SURE TO DO EVERY INSTALL AS ADMIN !!!

5. Do a clean “vanilla” install on a partition or drive which is NOT home of your OS !!!
AND try to install the DirectX-Version which comes with the original Copy of Freelancer (Theres a Folder on the CD)

(If prompted do a reboot after that.)

6. Install the OFFICIAL Patch of MS called 1.1 (although this doesnt change the version number to 1.1 it fixes some major bugs regarding account-creation and such)

7. Make sure to enable the Win-system-features “DirectPlay” AND “NET.Framework 3.5” (Install it if missing)

8. Replace “Freelancer.exe” with the NO-CD-Patch Version.

9. Make sure that no Anti-Virus or Firewall is blocking or deleting any Game-Content/Files or functions.

10. Try to start the game AS IS (no compatibilty-mode but AS ADMIN) and see how far you can get.

Please report in after that and we can try something else… (just for testing purposes)

Greetings

J.R.

Alright I reinstalled following your instructions, and started the game.

First I get the EULA which I accepted.
Then I got:

I press yes, and the screen goes fully black.
Then after a little bit I get this message:

And that’s all.

Installed the DIrectX you linked, still doesn’t seem to work.

I can’t install it on win10 it seems

Tried removing MOVIES, doesn’t seem to work.

DId that, forgot to add to OP as well, sorry.
As for older versions of directx, Is there a way to get them witout having to get rid of my current version?

I’ve turned on DirectPlay, forgot to add that to the first post, and I have never played on this pc before so no save files, I even checked.

I do not mean the box in the beginning, I meant the crash error you get after you start the game proper. I do not get the box in the beginning at all.

Hi,
I installed Freelancer in the hopes of playing it again after many, many years.
Ofcourse I got the 3d card not recognised thing and tried everything I could find to fix it.
I added my graphics card to the list, started as admin, started in compatability mode for winXP SP3, put my screen resolution to 1024x768, installed the quickfix patch, 1.1 patch, jflp patch, and even reinstalled it in D:\Freelancer and still it does not work.

My specs are:
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
16GB DDR4 1600MHz RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
WIndows 10 Pro

If theres any other info you need or if theres anything I did not try please tell me since I really want to play the game again.

Sincerely,
Shifumii