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Freelancer Blackscreen on startup

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Post Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:12 am

Freelancer Blackscreen on startup

It seems I am not the only one with this problem. But I still haven't solved it.

I installed the game succesfully and after the "accept terms" window my screen goes black and I have to reboot. (rebooted about 25 times already)

I followed the microsoft online help instruction down to the letter, but it doesn't help me.

I even reinstalled DX9.0a (even though I already had it). Via NVidia I updated to the new graphic driver software, ... still no reaction from the game.

Still it might be a sound problem though. An intro-movie needs sound too, ... so if there is a conflict, ... the game might freez up too.

Anyway, I did all mister Bill-ionair Gates told me to do, but it seems he is not worth his money.

These are my tech specs:

Computer:
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Dutch version 98-2nd / Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.4GHz /
256MB RAM / about 100 Gb free disk space / DirectX9.0a
(4.09.0000.0901))

Display:
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NVidia GeForce2 MX 100/200 / 32Mb memory on a Philips
107s monitor

Sound:
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SoundMax Digital Audio (intergrated om motherboard)


...

As so many ppl seem to have similar kinda problems, ... their must be a common screw up in the game. I hope they release a fix soon, ... goes I wanna play it.


Can anybody help me??

GreetZ,
Sir H. Master

Post Fri Jul 25, 2003 4:52 am

If you are running anti virus software try disabling or shuting it down.
AVG antivirus software form grisoft will make your machine do a reboot when you try to run freelancer.

Post Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:34 pm

Sir H Master. I had the same problem but with a Winfast Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb 8X AGP. Microsoft Tech support told me Freelancer will not run with Nvidia's latest driver 44.03 and suggested I install 41.09 from Nvidia's driver archive and the game started up ok. Apparently, if your video card has not been tested by Microsoft and given the WHQ something label, Freelancer wont work and You will still need to download the latest Direct X and sound driver. However, Although I still have the occasional game crash which I am hoping to sort out, try changing the driver. I am not guaranteeing it will work but it did for me.

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