I dunno what has happened in the past 3 weeks, but ive not updated any software or hardware on my machine and Freelancer just keeps crashing during the main menu
it starts fine,
go to server list, freezes completely for 30 seconds, press any button here and it completely crashes and needs process cancelling to turn it off.
servers apear, click on discovery server, it will hang and not do anything, press any button requires freelancer.exe process to be stopped in task manager to turn it off.
leaving it until it says the "connection to server not possible" window, you press 'ok', game crashes and needs to be cancelled from task manager again.
if you manage to get to the character select screen, but you want to go back, instant crash and needs to be cancelled from task manager
clicking on the ship you want, suddenly it hangs press any button and needs to be cancelled from task manager, leave it alone and it will crash requiring cancelling anyway.
I have the server list freeze as well from time to time. I tend to think it's related to the community server list server. doesn't lock my game though.
It happened to me once. All other servers worked but the GC server. I tried deleting freelancer files but it didn't work either so i just reinstalled everything, Freelancer + Mod and had it work after that.
I have the exact same issue as Hidamari since the Update. its annoying as crap. It sometimes takes me up to 10 minutes to simply log. Never mind if I try to switch chars for whatever reason.
My game also freezes for a while during the query of the server list and I think thats normal.
If you however CTD or freeze during the refresh then I'd assume its a connection issue.