Strange problem. I can only suggest the obvious which is reinstalling the game, or maybe reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling. You probably already tried this. Have you posted this topic before? Or, was that another person with the same problem?

Regulator

For the record, I also have this problem. I'll post back after reinstalling to see if that helped.

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I know there is mod that does that are you sure you didnt used it?

A strange problem it is !
In fact, someone already reported this problem Here

For information: I don't use any mods at all and I have reinstalled the game several times already but that won't do.
I'm going to format my HD and reinstall Win XP.
Lets Hope that work

Thanks to all of you for your replies

Having the same problem. I have 4 totally different computers, 3 on windows xp, 1 on windows 98. (the slowest) This problem happens in the first 3, but not on the older one that has win98. I think this problem could be related to windows xp having those weird separate Documents folders, based on different usernames, and that's messing the server files up. To make this problem seem even more odd, i played this game a long time ago with 2 windows xp computers and there wasn't this problem. But there was something different. Presently, if i try to access the directory C:\Documents and settings\username of a different computer through a LAN, i get an error saying the access is denied. That error did not used to happen when i played Freelancer LAN without problems.

Well, i hope that someone finds out the origin of this problem, because i already tried everything i could possibly think of.