its worked for you before?you didn't install anything?what's changed(assuming you've had it running)since the last time it worked?

Yes it has worked before. From what I remember nothing changed. One day I restarted my computer and it hasn't worked since.

try the no-starting videos mod first,i have a hunch your codecs have changed(these frequently do).also if you are running windows 98....run away!i had nothing but grief using FL on a 98 system,often during modding experiments i would have to completely reinstall windows to get FL running again.of course,before you do that try installing the SDK 1.5 also as well as running windows update,virus scanners,system doctor utility(like norton windoc),& finally(and that means last resort)new directx 9

I have WinXP. I had no luck with the no movie things. It still does the same thing. And I've done pretty much everything else you said there. I was thinking that maybe my Direct X got corrupted somehow.. So I've tried to install it again using the Re-distributable but it gets like 60% done and then it says "Direct X has failed to copy a needed file." then it stops and says Installation Incomplete.

I really don't know what to do.
Any more ideas? Or any help on what's going on with the DX9 installation?

Thanks in advance.

well,i like to format my system harddrive & reinstall windows every few months anyway,if you have a windows disk(i.e. not one of the "windows disks" that come with computers,these are incomplete copies redistributed by computer makers)you should be considering that next.but i have one last idea,go into your control panel/system/device manager and scan down to the audio part,right click and disable everything under that category.if your crash is caused by an audio problem this should fix it,freelancer will say 'no audio detected' blah blah blah,and ask to continue.if that is it then obviously you need to reinstall your sound drivers.but i would also say it sounds like you need a clean reinstall of your OS because if its acting weird now it could start acting funky installing and using other software too....in fact reinstalling XP every 6 months should be recommended maintenance lol.hoping this helps