Freelancer and DirectX? - Crashing

Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:24 am by Alien_de

Hi there!

Just installed Freelancer since a longer time. And what am I encountering? Startup crash!. No, it was not the autosave. There must be some issue with DirectX 9c, which I installed just some days ago, since dxdiag _sometimes_ pops up wehen Freelancer crashes.

So my next attempt in solvin that problem was to downgrade DirectX. Downgrading worked - I think - but Freelancer won't load. Ah, btw: since I downgraded, Freelancer says that I'm not having a Direct3D compatible graphics card (I got a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro). So wtf can I do else???

Btw: Never seen a game as poorly supported by its publisher/developer as Freelancer. Thanks god for the community!

Mon Sep 27, 2004 2:42 pm by Stinger

Btw: Never seen a game as poorly supported by its publisher/developer as Freelancer. Thanks god for the community!

How do you know for certain the developer hasn't been supporting their game through this community?

Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:17 am by Alien_de

I' am a thinking being. And this game is from M$. So assume.... :-)

but could anyone help me with my prob?

Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:27 pm by Speedj2

i think there is something wrong with 9.0c.
right after i installed it i started having problems with FL.
never before that.
how do you downgrade directx

Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:39 am by Esquilax

To my knowledge, you CANNOT uninstall or downgrade DirectX. Sorry

.

Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:25 am by neoshodan

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?id=28

Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:31 am by Stinger

@neoshodan

Oh you can try all those neat utilities, but your mileage will vary tremendously.

Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:24 am by Speedj2

since i realized it quickly i was able to use system restore to go back to before i upgraded and it works perfectly now

Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:40 pm by deanspeed

good idea speedj2

. but i have mine turnd off

ill try that majorgeeks.com link

Edited by - deanspeed on 9/29/2004 2:42:06 PM

Edited by - deanspeed on 9/29/2004 3:12:02 PM

Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:11 pm by deanspeed

does any one know where i can download directx 9.0b?

Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:38 am by Alien_de

DirectX 9 Uninstaller from mjorgeeks is crap, cause it ain't working.

I'll try those other tools. Thanks though!

Edited by - Alien_De on 9/30/2004 11:15:34 AM

Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:59 am by Alien_de

DirectX Eradicator is working and I've got DX 8.1 now, but Freelancer isn't working.

But I think I've found the problem:

in Documents and Settings --> <insert your username here> --> Local Settings --> Freelancer

open the file FLspew.txt and you might find the message "ERROR: ArchDB::Get(2946895564) failed" at the eof. I'm bugging MS with that allready, so I'll let you know if they got a solution.

Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:18 am by deanspeed

by the time they fix the problem my game will be deleted

Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:39 am by deanspeed

what does this mean?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v114/ ... rerrer.bmp

i whent back to dx 8.1 and now i can see servers but i get this errer when i try to connect to any server.

Edited by - deanspeed on 9/30/2004 10:40:26 AM

Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:17 am by Alien_de

dunno exactly, but could it be that you supplied user data in FL that do not match the ones you typed in earlier? like a wron password or so.

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