I have SiS 730 and Flickering text. Microsoft have no idea how to fix the problem and I get the impression they don't really care! (wow there is a surprise!)

The game is a bug joke. The shop I got it from won't take it back, microsoft won't give me my money back since they say it works(!yeah right!). I feel like I have just been robbed!!

Any fix for the text (the above did not do it for SiS) would be a saviour, as Microsoft is too dumb (and too busy counting its money..sorry our money) to sort it out.

Thanks all!!

Muppetts!

Hi, I cant get this to work... I've got a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro gfx card with the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI. Can somebody paste what i have to change in the txt file? Thx.

Other system specs:

Intel P4 2.4Ghz
Abit SA7
512Mb DDR

Edited by - venz on 06-08-2003 20:53:56

You are amazing man, *bows in reverence*
I was told by Microsoft support that this was unfixable and I should return the game or buy a new GFX Card BAH!!!

Anyway I have an Intel 82810 card, here's what I changed to make it work perfectly.Vendor = 0x8086 "Intel"


0x7800 = "740"
0x1240 = "752"
Bad8888
NoMipMap
ForceSquareTextures
LimitTextureSize
UnsupportedHardware
break

0x7121 = "810" TextureOffset
0x7123 = "810" TextureOffset
0x7124 = "810e"
0x7125 = "810e"
0x7126 = "810"
0x7127 = "810"
0x1132 = "815"
Bad8888
NoMipMap

LimitTextureSize


Again thanks loads man

I've been stuck with this problem for more than 1 month, and I can,t even play Freelancer correctly because of it.

My video card is the voodoo 4. the problem is exactly the same as everyone here, but yet I can't get to fix it the way you said. I tried to send Kinyajuu a email, but yet his email adress ain't right. Anyone here could gime some pointers?
There was no such things as ForceSquareTextures for Voodoo 4, all I did is had TextureOffSet and it didn't work. Here's the normal listing for Voodoo4 (and 5)

I also pointed out where I added it.


//
// Voodoo 4 and 5
//

0x0007 = "Voodoo 4"
0x0009 = "Voodoo 5"

****(I added this) TextureOffSet
if os > win2k
if driver < 5.0.3545.28
UnsupportedDriver
endif
if os == win2k
if driver < 5.0.2195.31
UnsupportedDriver
endif
if os < win2k
if driver < 4.13.1.28
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
break


It didn't work, so if you could help me out I'd appreciate. Maybe I'm the dumb ass and I didn't do it properly. But maybe that stuff doesnt work for voodoo 4. If you dont know the answer but you'd know somewhere else where I could find the info I would appreciate

I see no need to cut and paste the text since it's already been done. Just wanted to say, that this DOES work for Intel 815 chipsets. Voodoo? From what I have read, it appears that is an unsupported card so the folks at Gatesland are not going to help at all.

Ridding Galileo of scum in a starflier

I yacked back and foreth with microsoft over e-mail over this for like 2 months. If this fixes it, know that I will be shure to bow to you first thing when I get up each day for at least a week. I have been playing FL for a while and I've never had text

We who are about to die salute you!

!!! It worked!!! I am quite happy!!! Prepare to be bowed to *bows* ! I would post the altered code for you, but its on the other comp. I have an Intel 815 GFX card. Thank you for alowing me to read things like weapon info and peoples names and distances to stuff......... just know that you have bested microsoft (a rare feat) and a computer genius professor friend of mine.

We who are about to die salute you!

Hey whoever out there can help me!
I've just bought Freelancer and there is a problem with the text: THERE ISN'T ANY!!!
Well, actually there is, but it's impossible to read because it flashes and flickers and there isn't any letters you can make-out.
I read some posts about it, one of them tells you to go to the Freelancer\EXE\ folder or something, and then edit some stuff. Well, thing is I dunno how to get to the Freelancer\EXE\ folder in the first place, and I can't find "flconfigdatabase" either. Could someone please tell me how to find it?
Thank you!

All right, I found the file. Kinda slow, I know. Anyway, I did what you said and it didn't fix the problem at all. I'm still not bowing.

well my problem is text alright,but its not what i c discussed here :S .i get what seems like chineese text (i think) instead of english,although everything else is in english(small tooltips,options,main menu,the readme ,.....)so what is it that i have missed.i reinstalled the game twice and followed some of the microsoft's(lousy) solutions.i would love any help on this

M&M

I have the really huge text problem and a Radeon 9500 Pro. I don't see the 9500 Pro under the list in the ATI section and I don't see the line I'm supposed to delete there either. I had this problem with the Cat 3.8 and 3.9 drivers (don't remember the 3.7). Thanks.

&#1085;&#1086;&#1090;&#1091;&#1088;&#1080; &#1091; &#1084;&#1077;&#1085;&#1103; &#1090;&#1072;&#1078;&#1077; &#1093;&#1077;&#1088;&#1085;&#1103;

F*ck i have a radeon 9200 and see no text.realy bad (((((((

Maybe somebody faced the same problem - after playing for a while, my fonts got really big - it is possible to read but annoying - I wish I could decrease the size of the fonts - anybody has a clue how to do that? Is that a hint from the developers that I should have lost my eyesight by this time after playing so much?
The problem persists both at 1024x768 and 1600x1200 resolutions.

Thank you in advance.