@HunterKiller: Thanks for another great tip!

@FriendlyFire: Actually, oda.krell’s post seems pretty related to my original post. As a noob, I have absolutely no idea what the posts after HunterKiller’s are talking about. I would love to know the answers to his questions as well.

Edit: Ok, so reading Helloween’s posts again, I guess it’s a way to improve the graphics on modern GPU’s? But what’s this ENBSeries that he is talking about?

And one last addition: What is the general consensus on Jared’s FL Patch? Is that considered a must-have now? If so, do I install it with Crossfire or FlyByU’s?

Thanks for the great tips! I keep seeing comments about client commands and how some mods work with Open Single Player (which I can’t find on the moddb site). Can you point me to a good tutorial and how to install mods and use client commands and such? I’ve googled like crazy and can’t really find much. Sorry for the immense level of noobness. And thanks for the patience (hopefully).

Hi guys, sorry for the noob questions, but searched around and couldn’t really find anything concrete and the shear number of mods and patches are kind of bewildering. Anyway, I want to dust off Freelancer and give it another go. Admittedly, I’m more of a single-player guy than a multi-player one.

So on to the questions. For hardware: what’s recommended? I’ve seen JFLP and widescreen support. Anything else I should install? Anything with more complex texture and ship designs and up-to-date 3D effects?

For mods: I read elsewhere that there are mods now that add tons of new commodities/ships/ship abilities/bases etc. Is there such a mod that is used by most current FL players? I would like one that combines this with a good expanded single-player experience. Does such a mod exist? Would the Discovery and/or Rebalancing mods be good for me?

Thanks!