Crash upon starting game

Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:58 pm by PvtHudson

Hi all,

the game keeps crashing straight away when I start it. The screen turns black and remains that away until I press reset.
I already tried a few things:
- DirectX 8.1b and 9
- re-installed latest Detonator drivers
- re-installed latest Audigy drivers
- re-installed latest VIA4in1 drivers
- re-installed game
- disabled the intro videos in the INI file

Nothing helped. the game keeps crashing and the log file remains empty.
Any suggestions? Other games (U2, NFS, MoHAA) work fine... And no, it's not a leeched version of the game...

My machine:
Athlon 1,4
512MB
GF3 Ti200 128MB
SB Audigy Player
Win98SE

Thanks in advance

Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:50 am by Gerbs

Yeah, I'm having exactly the same problem!
Before I bought the game, I downloaded the demo, which ran okayish (my machine is a bit old) and when I installed the full version, hey, whaddya know, prompt lockup. Screen goes black and I gotta do a hard reset.
Tried different detonator drivers, re-installed 2 different versions of Windows (Me and 98SE) and it does the same thing, time and again.
I've just paid $99 for this game (I'm in NZ) and I want the damn thing to work!

Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:45 am by ren

I'm having exactly the same problem. what's more, I installed the demo a month ago, played it ok for 2 weeks untill I installed direct X 9 and a new detonator drive so it must have something to do with either one of them i guess.

Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:54 pm by ren

I've dug a lil deeper in these forums and the solution is simple. you have to use the previous detonator drive cuz win 98 and the latest driver together give probs with freelancer.

Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:20 pm by PvtHudson

Confirmed, Ren. tried the same and it works.
I am now using Detonator 41.03 again but with 43.45 it does not work.

So thanks for pointing me in the right direction...

Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:26 pm by UNDERTAKER

43.45 dont work with 9x. but it shudd work on XP.

Tue Apr 22, 2003 8:43 am by Gerbs

Right, I've just tried rolling back to older drivers.
Same thing.
fiddled with all the settings, still nothing.
ARRRGGGHH!

Must be time for a new pc....

Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:52 am by PvtHudson

Gerbs, did you try all he other suggestions floating around?
For example:
- the l3codeca issue?
- Installing the current Windows Media Player? (Can you play the videos in Windows?)
- turning off anti-aliasing in the Detonators
- deleting possible account data (if you already have some)

BTW: Which Detonators are you using right now?

Good luck!

Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:45 pm by Gerbs

got wmp9 installed, and game vids run fine in that

Tried 3 different sets of detonators, am now gonna try after I've fiddled with the anti-aliasing settings...
l3 codec had no effect.....

Will be back either after a hard reset, or many hours of game play.......

Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:53 pm by Gerbs

nope, had to reset again

Think I'll just go spend a couple of grand on a new pc

Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:02 am by thermalepoxy

i figured it all out ppl
i was running dx90.a with the NV 43.45s and i would get a black screen ever time i ran the program. i uninstalled the 43.35 with detanator destroyer and installed the 41.09s. every thing works great now.

xp1700 @ xp2400
256 @ 200 mhz FSB
ti4200 with 41.09s
dx 9.0a
windows ME (patched to hell)

any questions send @ [email protected]
good day

Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:22 am by Hellion

So here I am two weeks after I bought Freelancer. I'm running an Athlon 1200 with Windows 2000. I patched everything with the latest drivers, yet my machine consistently reboots itself. There wasn't any resource conflicts either. Finally, I figured that all of the problems were AGP or bus related and installed VIA's 4 in 1 patch, and the system is humming without any problems. Great game. Hopefully this will be of some use to people.

Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:07 pm by Bossk

Guys, blank screen prob got fixed with 41.09 dets, but Freelancer still crashes consistently around 10 seconds into gameplay. here is wot i got:

Duron 850
MSI K7T Turbo mobo
64Mb Daytona Geforce 2 MX 200
256 MB RAM.
Win 98 - Det 41.90

Only thing is, when i swap the Vid card with a 32Mb Riva TNT2 M64, it runs PERFECT. the Geforce screws me over. In one of the forums, some dude mentions downgrading the Detonators to 41.90, and that got me past the black screen problem, but onto your problem. It plays for 10 or so seconds, and that's it. shows over man.

The perfect PC costs how much??

Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:05 pm by DeEvil

I believe it has something to do with some version of these fllmod and the savegames you have on your computer.

copy them to another folder and try and launch the game again without any savegames.

Thu Apr 24, 2003 9:50 am by Gerbs

That doesn't help much if you can't play the game in the first place :p
I've isntalled it and uninstalled it, tried the sound thingies and different video drivers, dx8.1, dx9,dx9a...... nadda. Not a thing. Kills itself at the first chance it gets...... black screen as soon as you try to load the game.

Whens the first patch due out?

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