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Calling all experts, please help? In preparation for a CF2.0 mod, I have been trying to get an original, disk copy, of Freelancer to run on a recently rebuilt Windows 7 Pro, x64. I have been playing FL in SP and occasionally MP mode for many years and installed FL on many x32 bit machines without issue.
Although, the program appears to install all the files correctly in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer folder, it will not run and crashes out immediately.
My hardware is: x2 Twin Core AMD 2.4GHz 2216 CPUs on a Tyan Opteron n3600 Thunder x64, with 16BG RAM, a Nvidia Quadro FX1500 graphics card and a creative SB X-Fi Sound Card. The following is my method and diagnostics.
After loading disk into drive, I used the Explorer Properties to set the Compatibility on the setup.exe to "Windows XP-SP3" and "Run As Administrator." I then turned off the Windows Defender AV and installed the game as normal. After installation, I manually checked and set all .exe and dll files in \Freelancer\EXE folder to the same Compatibility as above and even set the Security to Full Control for my User Account for all files. I have also set the UAC on the Control Panel to minimum. I then updated the "flconfigdatabase" file with my GPU ID using 0x029e = "Quadro FX 1500". I have set my Display Resolution to 1280 x 960 for a 4:3 aspect ratio, as per FLs original install instructions and also turned off SB X-Fi 3D sound. Even though Windows Defender is still showing as Real-Time Protection as off, I set an Exception entry for the Freelancer folder. I also conducted a separate check of rundll32.exe which works ok. Yet Freelancer still will not run when starting from installed folder or desktop shortcut. Does anyone have any experience of getting FL to run correctly on Windows 7 x64?

Hi. Thanks for your prompt reply. No Saved Games. My Games\Freelancer was not created from the install. I believe that this is only created when the program runs for the first time? All previous attempts to load the program with fully uninstalled and the registry cleaned manually.

I running also Win7 64bit with a similar config but I don't edit the flconfigdatabase, using the Desktop resolution of 1900x1200 and have not set the compatible mode to WinXP even during Installation. Is your Installation Folder read only?

Hi Guys, Thanks for your replies.
After installation the Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer folder is set to Read-Only, but I then "Un-set" for the folder and all-sub-folders, before manually setting the Compatibility of all .exe files to Windows XP(SP3) and Run-As-Admin, and the User Control to Full for all files.
As for the drivers I am using the latest drivers from Nvidia, but possibly not from Creative for the SB X-Fi. I will double check the latter now and report back later.

Hi All, unfortunately I still cannot get Freelancer to run on my Windows 7 x64. I have now downloaded SystemInternals from Microsoft and have been teaching myself how to use the Process-Monitor. If you ever get stuck trying to solve a difficult problem with Windows Software, then I highly recommend you use this tool. I used ProcMon to capture the complete process sequence when Freelancer attempts to run and I have discovered that FL, rundll32 and f1d055.tmp all try to access the Wing.dll and the Wing32.dll. Since these files a pre-DirectX they are no installed so FL appears to conclude that it cannot find sufficient graphics support and shuts down. This is very perplexing because I have DirectX11 successfully installed and operating. Although me Windows 7 x64 Pro using a clean install, I have subsequently installed Sid Meirers Railroads and X3 Reunion and both run AOK. So the question I have been investigating for the past few days is why does FL want to access the extremely old WinG graphics library, when perfectly usable DirectX libraries are installed?
Please let me know if you have any more thoughts on this topic. Many thanks Ed

See if you can rip the ISO from your disk and mount the image using Daemon tools. Totally legal so long as you don't upload your iso to the Internet. My original disk is so scratched I had to do that. I also use Windows 7 64bit, so like someone suggested, make sure all updates are installed as well as direct x 9. Maybe run in compatibility mode?

- run install SETUP.EXE "As Administrator"
- clean install of Freelancer to C:\Games\Freelancer
- run Freelancer loader - set options to "3D sound" off.
- try to run Freelancer. Crashes when I try to load "new game".

2nd try:
- clean install of Freelancer (running things "as administrator" as much as possible.
- installed patch 1.1 from Starport site.
- still crashed until I did the following:
- *** important - game only started working when I did this *** Delete entire "My Documents"\My Games\Freelancer directory.
- run freelancer loader - turn off 3d sound.
- running freelancer gives me error about it doesn't know about my graphics card. No, it wouldn't, my card came out about a decade after the game did. Turn off error.
- Works. Mostly. I got some glitches when going to equipment rooms in Kusari space - seems to reboot the graphics card. Weird, but I can put up with it. Finished the original plot anyway, which was my goal.

in mod package is link which lead here to portal FAQ, where are given pretty detailed instructions how to activate CF 2.0 (and keep yourself from problems). You for example can find there also info, that is not needed install any patch.

I was under the impression that this is the Freelancer forum, not the Crossfire mod forum. I was responding to someone having trouble running, to my understanding, vanilla Freelancer. OP mentioned that it was "in preparation" for the Crossfire mod. Not the mod itself.

I too had several issues trying to get this game to work under Windows 7. Without mods. Which is why I responded, since the "delete the Freelancer directory" wasn't something I would have thought of if I hadn't found one mention of it somewhere else.

Freelancer worked best on Windows XP SP3. It did not work at all onVista. But it does work on Windows 7, and on Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Just install itnormally from the CDROM and play it as normal. However, there is a tweak that has recently become necessary.

In September 2015, Microsoft security update KB3086255 prevented Freelancer from running. When you double-click on the icon, instead of running, you get a dialog box with "Access denied" and "Please login with administrator privileges and try again".

What the update did was to stop a service that the game relies on. It "basically disables secdrv.sys which is an anti-piracy copy protection that is used by many games developers and some other software companies. The driver, secdrv.sys, is used by games which use Macrovision SafeDisc. Without the driver, games with SafeDisc protection would be unable to play on Windows." See" -2015-windows-updates-kb3086255-breaks-many-games/"this link for details. The driver was basically a security hole, and so Microsoft have acted to stop it running.

You will get an annoying watermark in testsigning mode. You can remove it using" -content/uploads/2015/02/My_WCP_Watermark_Editor.zip"this program. Or read about removing it manually" -windows-watermark/"here.

It is possible to install the Freelancer Mod Manager, but requires a bit ofingenuity. You will quickly find, if you just try to install, that itinstalls, but none of the mods will activate. They all give an error inFMM if you try. Worse, you will find that when you start Freelancer, yourmain menu screen is missing a lot of its bitmaps; if you proceed to a savedgame, that the navmap is blank, and that if you try to leave the station yousaved at, Freelancer crashes.

Right click on the directory in Explorer, choose Properties, then theSecurity tab. Look at "Authenticated users" and hit"Edit" if necessary to give it "Full control" over thedirectory. Likewise with "Users (\Users)".

I got into a lot of trouble with this. Even uninstalling Freelancer andreinstalling it did not fix it. I ended up deinstalling FLMM and FL,removing all nasty-looking references to "freelancer" from theregistry, doing a search on the hard disk and ditto, rebooting, and finallyinstalling FL to a new directory. It works fine from c:\freelancer.

What about your saved games? These are all in c:\users\\My Documents\My Games\Freelancer\Accts\SinglePlayer\ as*.fl. Keep a copy of the directory before you fiddle, I suggest. Copying the contents back on a new install gave me back my old saved games.

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