Vanilla Error

Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:36 am by Spiketail

Both I and some of my friends have been having this weird little problem...

Effectively, Freelancer runs fine when running Evolutions 2.29, but running Vanilla or using minor mods (ie. ones that don't change much) causes the game to crash. Here's the sequence of events:

1. Start FL.
2. Intro cutscenes run (unskippable)
3. The 'Freelancer' flash screen that you get prior to the main menu appearing shows up for a few seconds.
4. Freelancer quits to the desktop. For a few seconds, it appears on the taskbar, then that vanishes with a 'Please send this to report to Microsoft' message.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Additional note. With all mods deactivated, loading up Datastorm produces the 2.29 map.

Edited by - Spiketail on 6/11/2006 4:34:29 AM

Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:41 am by Cold_Void

have you tried using Restore Backups in mod manager and installing the SDK?

Edited by - Cold_Void on 6/11/2006 4:42:11 AM

Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:11 am by darth revan

Check your saved games folder for any saved games as well.

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Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:52 am by Spiketail

Thanks, guys. Not sure what did it (all saved games deleted and SDK installed), but Vanilla runs fine now.

EDIT: Spoke too soon. FL starts fine, but clicking on new game produces much the same result as before.

Edited by - Spiketail on 6/11/2006 7:34:39 AM

Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:50 am by Cold_Void

if you run FLspit.vbs after crashing and paste the latest time stamped session from the error log it creates here you will be helping us help you

its a server debugger, but it actually works with both server and client EXEs

Edited by - Cold_Void on 6/11/2006 8:52:20 AM

Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:49 am by Spiketail

Pretty short and sweet...

[11/06/2006 17:48:32
WARNING:General:set_gamma_function() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING: Failed to get start location

Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:48 pm by Louva-Deus

Reinstall the game and then apply the QuickFix patch. Your problem is that there are parts of Evolutions left over in the vanilla install when you try to play the normal game.

Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:47 am by Spiketail

Done. No change in reaction, but FLspit gives me something different now...

[12/06/2006 17:45:32
WARNING:General:set_gamma_function() called outside of create_buffers/destroy_buffers
WARNING: Failed to load saved game D:\Joshua\My Games\Freelancer\Accts\SinglePlayer\DataStorm.fl
WARNING: Failed to get start location

Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:46 pm by Freezyguy

I know that I am ressurecting this thread but I am having the same issue and I havent been able to resolve it. I am wondering if anyone as any insight on the issue.

Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:06 pm by Cold_Void

other than deleting your savegames i don't know anything that might help - i would definitely check to see if datastorm.fl is there in your savegames, and delete restart.fl & the autosave too

Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:43 pm by Hahukum Konn

If nothing else works I suggest uninstalling the game with add/remove programs, then killing the Microsoft Games\Freelancer folder, and getting rid of any *.fl files in your My Games folder.

Then reinstall Freelancer and use the QuickFix patch or the SDK 1.5 according to preference.

Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:27 am by Freezyguy

Wow the problem was I still had savegames installed from the last time I had Freelancer installed, from March 2004!?! Deleteing these old saves did the trick thank you, I never would have imagined that anything was left from way back then.

Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:42 pm by Orin_Hasting

I remember I had this problem a few years ago as well. If I recall correctly, uninstalling, deleting my save files, deleting all my mods and pretty much starting EVERYTHING from scratch did the trick. Could've been overkill, but that's how I fixed it.

Hope this helps.

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