Freelancer craps out into Windows on launch....

Thu May 22, 2003 3:55 pm by max_RAF

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i never happend before... only since i accidentaly crashed Elite
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Max_RAF
2nd Lieutenant
posted 22-05-2003 05:51 CET
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sorry for crashing the server... i thought my PS mods (beam weapon, uber shields and sime skin changing) won't work in MP... i was wrong. when i started on manhattan, i was able to by those... i tried to depart and server crashed...

i deactivated all mods i had and tried to re-join the server. and i found out i can't even start my freealncer...

so now i'm reinstalling everything and such.... sorry again....

PSSSSS

i was connected to Elite server.... aperantly patch didnt help....
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then i tried to start freelancer again (after deactivating' all the mods) but when i get to that screen that says : FREELANCER, the game just craps out

i uninstalled it, renamed to folders.... nothing works

PLZ HELP!!!!!

Thu May 22, 2003 10:06 pm by Darkside

Try deleting or moving your save game files.. there have been probs associated with those.

Fri May 23, 2003 5:09 am by max_RAF

thanks, it worked .... but for some reason i can't hear NPCs talking while in space... bars work fine, but dockin rings, mission comisioners and such jut keep quite all the time...

Fri May 23, 2003 6:50 pm by deadflip

you know whats the best option, just reinstall....

Sat May 24, 2003 1:08 am by Darkside

Have you tried the missing sound fix? If not you could try it.. But I would say reinstall just like the last guy here.

Sat May 24, 2003 2:03 am by hans olo

Darkside wrote: ''Try deleting or moving your save game files.. there have been probs associated with those''

Thank you!!! I had (more or less) the same problem as Max_RAF. And indeed, removing the saved games fixed it. Strange but true.

I was already afraid that I would never see a Corsair woman again, and was contemplating giving up all earthly pleasures, give away all my belongings, start informing people the end-times are near etc. But - sacrificing some char lives was a small price to save universe, and so it was done.

Nevertheless it is an unpleasant idea that the game isn't entirely reliable to manage the saved games. I'm glad I know how to mod the newcharacter.ini-file, because I would hate to go back to fight Rogues in a starflier.

"We are a way of the Cosmos to know itself"

-- Carl Sagan

Edited by - hans olo on 24-05-2003 03:05:16

Sat May 24, 2003 4:55 am by Darkside

No problem! I just know that,that was some peoples problems so I always suggest that when people say they have used mods and try going back to the regular game.

Sat May 24, 2003 7:00 am by starwarsman77

Where can I find my savegames???

Sat May 24, 2003 9:27 am by hans olo

In XP it is in

C:\Documents and Settings\(your system name)\My Documents\My Games\Freelancer\Accts\SinglePlayer

Sat May 24, 2003 11:42 am by hans olo

F*ck Digital Anvil and Microsoft!

The same happened to me again today,and this time deleting the savedgames didn't work. So I hope deleting the savedgames AND reinstalling does work.

These experiences nurture evil thoughts inside of me. About wishing terrible diseases upon those who created this program.Of course we aren't supposed to mod it, but sofar everything went fine, and now all of a sudden, this **** is going on. I wonder if some stupid Windows upate could have caused it.

Sat May 24, 2003 5:22 pm by starwarsman77

what about in win98?

Sat May 24, 2003 5:43 pm by hans olo

starwarsman77 wrote: what about in win98?

No idea, but the extension is .fl so maybe you could do a search for it.

"We are a way of the Cosmos to know itself"

-- Carl Sagan

Edited by - hans olo on 24-05-2003 18:44:16

Sat May 24, 2003 5:47 pm by Darkside

Did you get it fixed again hans?

Sat May 24, 2003 10:36 pm by DJscratchman

This same thing happened to me, I fully unistalled Freelancer, then reinstalled it, got the whole thing working again.

?Que es tu problemo?
General Fang
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www.FMM.homestead.com

Sun May 25, 2003 6:58 am by hans olo

Darkside wrote: Did you get it fixed again hans?

Yes, thank you. The problem seems to be solved now. I can't recall really what I had to do this time, but I did delete a file "restart.fl" several times.

Apparently the autosave option and the activation.deactivation of several mods, screw it up. I read that in the newest version of FLMM, which is not finished yet, there will be a way to deal with this; it will move the saved games to another folder or something like that.

Of course, my anger towards DA & MS was not justified, as this whole modding thing is unofficial. On the other hand, it could be argued that they should release an official mod-builder and -manager.

"We are a way of the Cosmos to know itself"

-- Carl Sagan

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