Issues When Connecting

[Bicko]

Heya all, hope I'm posting this in the right section. My friend keeps pestering me to play X3 but I'd rather play Freelancer, so I've installed it and found Discovery (since vanilla Freelancer is a little old now :P)

I've had a look around and this seems to be an error a few people have had, yet I'm having no luck getting rid of it. FYI I'm running Vista Business 32bit, 8800GTX 768MB, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Pentium Q6600.

Now I think my problem is partly due to the way I'm installing it.. I can't seem to find a tutorial on which way around things should be placed and it's giving me a variety of problems (such as the dacom.dll error). What I was doing originally was installing Freelancer in the default directory and not patching it. Then I installed FLMM into its default directory. I then got the Discovery4854beta.zip.flmod file and double clicked it, so FLMM unpacked it itself.

Now when FLMM unpacks it, by default it goes into the Program Files\Freelancer Mod Manager\mods folder, which I've been lead to believe is wrong and the mod should instead be unpackaged into the Microsoft Games\Freelancer directory instead? If I do try to run the DSUpdate.exe from the FLMM mods directory, I just get told that it couldn't find "dacom.dll" and wont run.

So what I did was install Beta 4, put it into a rar file, and then unpack it myself into the Freelancer directory. I then manually unpacked the dsupdate4856.zip file into the Freelancer directory to get it up to Beta 6.

Problem is that I obviously can't turn on FLMM.. which I think might be causing problems with the game. I can launch it up fine using DSUpdate.exe, and get to the Internet lobby, but if I try to connect to the Discovery 24/7 RP Server then I get the "a connection could not be established" error.

I've already given a shot to a whole bunch of the connection solutions (disabled IPv6, turned off Windows firewall, turned off my antivirus (even though it's AVG, tried anyway)) yet nothing has helped.

Any ideas? I'm living in a world of torment.. all I want to do is play Freelancer!

P.S. my first post :D

[Xareck]

It's correct by unzipping it to the mods folder. The program knows what it's doing.;)

Now all you should need to do is ACTIVATE the mod, and run DSUpdate.exe.

Also make sure you don't have Norton installed on your computer if you're using vista. I had that problem when trying to connect.

The Antiviruses that I know of that you can use would be AVG and OneCare.

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[johnpeter]

The way that you are installing it is fine. It is a problem with the mod, and vista. I am having the problem with my Asus, running vista.

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Come on! Be free!