Maybe an issue with ATI's cards...mine works just fine... GeForce 4 Ti4400...

I think the game writes out a debug file that you could look at.

\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Freelancer\FLspew.txt

note: some of those folders are hidden, so you may have to disable the Windows folder option that hides them from you.

There may be a clue in there about what's going wrong?

I got the same problem last night for the first time. I'm at level 9 and i'm ready to go to planet Cambridge to see Jun'ko Zane (for the next mission)... I simple enter the space gate and when i'm ready to leave in the new system the game crash and simply boot my computer. I don't think it's a computer problem because the game has run ok until this point. And my Autosave is BEFORE i enter it and not AFTER It's very strange

My friend has the same problem, his pc restarts on system gate jumps, not every one, more like 1 in 5 jumps.
He has almost an identical system to mine, as I built it for him...
XP2100
GF4 Ti4200
256Mb 333MHz Ram
etc..

Gonna try to take a look at his PC this weekend hopefuly, as he is not the most technicaly minded person I know

The only thing I can think taght his difefrent on his machine and mine is I have newer vga drivers than him and more memory.
I am inclined to blame DX9, as he has had a few similar problems with other games locking up and resatrting PC sionce installing freelancer and DX9.

I have not heard anything REALY GOOD about DX9 since it was released, just people with problems.



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Heh, this reminds me of a similar 'bug' that hit alot of people who played Egosoft's X-Tension.

The problem was, the game was CRC-checking itself, scanning for changes to the copy-protection regions.

Hit a jump gate and *BOOM*.

Quite cunning really. Reminds me again of an even more cunning anti piracy scheme on the Amiga for Directory Opus. It renamed EVERY SINGLE FILE AND DIRECTORY on your hard disk to something like "---->>> PIRACY SUCKS <<<---".

LOL.

Hi there. I´ve got nearly the Same Problem:

Problem: ok it´s like randomn times when i pass the Jump Gate the System sends me to Blue Screen with the failure msg:
unexpected_kernel_mode_trap
and some **** about memory blah

sometimes my autosave file is behind the gate sometimes not... :/ so i have to ask a friend to jump for me...

my System:
Windows 2000 Professionell SP3
DirectX 9
Detonator 4.1.0.9

XP 2100+
MSI KT3 Ultra 2
MSI G4 Ti 4200 DT 64
512MB Samsung 333MHz DDR

quoute of the FLSpew:
[...
C:\work\builds\dalibs\dalibs-build\build\Src\RenderPipeline\DX8\rp_dx8.cpp(1019) : NOTICE:General:found d3d device nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\nn\NN_Chat.cpp(1362) : NOTICE:General:Channel add successful.
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\nn\NN_Chat.cpp(1362) : NOTICE:General:Channel add successful.
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\nn\NN_Chat.cpp(1362) : NOTICE:General:Channel add successful.
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\LoginMgr.cpp(351) : NOTICE:General:Starting single player game.
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\Gf\LocationController.cpp(1029) : *** WARNING: Failed to get start location
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\DALib\DALib.cpp(376) : WARNING:General:******* DA SYSTEM: trailing references *******
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\DALib\DALib.cpp(376) : WARNING:General:******* DA SYSTEM: trailing references *******

...............

so i hope that will help analysing the problem a bit

so stay cool i think a update will come and fix that nasty problem

Hmmmm... I’m using XP and i also have a GF4 Ti4200 and i have 256Mb 333MHz Ram Could be a DX9 problem but is very strange that it crashes in that point. I could go back and see if i have other crash problems on different gates or if this is the only one.

would be great if we could localize the nasty problem i get tired of bluescreens

hi,
i have the same problem, everytime when i try to pass a Jump gate my system reboots.
and thats not something against cracking freelancer......
can somebody help? my system:
gf4 ti4200
pentium 4 2,6 ghz
256 ddr ram........ and i have dx9 and the latest detonator from nvidia

hmmmmm....... could be that the problem is on the GF4 Ti4200??? I see everyone is using this card and having this "glitch"..... hmmmmm...

hmmm it seams like everybody uses a GF4 ... i know antoher guy with this problem with a GF4MX

pls write down which mainboard do you use...

cuz to of us uses MSI mainboards... perhaps its that

I have the same problem, system reboots on every single jump gate.
I have a Radeon 9500 Pro on a Gigabyte GA-7VAX board, so I do believe this is a game bug and hopefully we will all be seeing a fix from Microsoft soon enough

yeah i hope 4 them or i gonna kill them all one bye one =)

Try this.

I had the same problem.

I made two changes which seems to have resolved this but I haven't gone back
to check which one actually fixed it.

1. Disabled 3D sound from the check box.
2. Increased CPU core voltage by 0.25v

Really I should put one setting back to see which one resolved this problem.

Bazz.