Freelancer and WINXP-SP2

Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:33 pm by Tempest77

Well I decided to reinstall this game and actually explore it instead of just doing to SP missions and story. Well, it hasn't worked out that way. The game and pc locks up without warning and I have tried EVERY freaking thing to resolve issues.

I have made sure I got the lastest DX drivers, vid, chipset, soundcard, ect.

I have tested DX functions, Directdraw, D3D, soundcard functions, ect, ect.

I have tested hardware acceleration issues, disabled and renabled till my computer yelled,"Stop touching me that way!"

I have disabled and renabled various MS/Win services, used clean boot functions, ect.

I have disabled and enabled, turned down and turned up various game settings.

Pretty much you name it I have done it, I think. The only difference between now and the last time I had this game installed is...

#1 Added more memory.

#2 Am now using my CDR for a main Cd drive while I get the money to replace my old CD-Rom. (I figured it might be this, but then again other newer games have ran just fine.)

#3 Am now using SP2.

I even went as far as to install a unoffical FL patch that fixes alot of errors with the game. I have tried running it in different compatibility modes, nada.....

I get no error messages, game starts fine, plays smoothly for anywhere from 2 min to 30 and then it just freezes, some audio can still be heard but thats it. I can't tab out, or do anything at that point though.

Any ideas, anyone experience simular issues?

Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:42 pm by H.Q. Victor

I have both, XP and SP2 and no problems. Best recomendation, delete the game, saved files and reinstall. Delete the MS folder that has Fleelancer. reinstall it. The download and install the SDK which is a decoded Data file. the install FLMM and dowload any mods you want to try. Let us know how it goes.

Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:56 pm by Chips

Have you tried disabling the 3D sound?

Furthermore - what soundcard do you have?

Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:00 am by Tempest77

I have uninstalled/reinstalled the game several times.

As I said...I have tried everything, this problem is occuring from a clean install, no mods, nothing. 3d sound....already tried that.

Soundcard is a SBLive 5.1 for what it's worth, Vid card is Geforce 4 Ti 4600.

Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:40 am by cjabates

If the audio is just the same sound stuck in a loop, you might be having an IRQ issue (I know, sounds silly in these days of PCI IRQs and all, but still...) If it's continuing in the soundtrack, then I don't know. <shrug>

Chris Bates
Lead scripter,
Stargate BFM: Freelancer

Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:38 pm by Louva-Deus

Have you checked the flspew.txt file for critical errors? How about the Event Viewer in Windows XP Administrative Tools?

Check out the latest beta's of the Freelancer S.D.K. 1.5 and Freelancer Explorer v2.x

Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:54 pm by Tempest77

What benefit would downloading those apps have?

And what would I be looking for in the txt file mentioned or the event logger?

I just want to play this game again.

I've disabled my soundcard, and even put back in my old memory to try, test vid card, changed drivers, ect. Same results. And yes...I have reinstalled, reinstalled, reinstalled.....

Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:59 pm by H.Q. Victor

The downloads are part of his sig.

Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:13 am by cjabates

You might also want to download the updated FLconfig files from EOA's website. They've added in the newer vid cards' id strings so FL will know what to do with them.

Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:49 am by zazie

A lot of such problems in FL are soundcard-connected. You did disable it - but take it out for testing. It is possible to run FL only with software-buffers (no sound-hardware) though some of the sound is distorted.
If it does not make any difference:
I do not pretend to be an expert for this, ... . but: afaik the TI4600 is optimized for directX 8.x. WXP SP2 'seems to prefer' dX 0.9c .
Ask someone for a newer graca for testing purposes. Or you might install dX 8.1 again.

Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:38 am by Amedeus

just an off the wall thought.... what is your motherboard ??
if it is an ASUS nforce try using the 4.x Nforce drivers instead of the 5.x

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