Freelancer is crashing

[looqas]

I've had my share of cards during the years and I would try out what most people suggest. Roll back one to second latest nvidia driver and try that.

The problem is that you have a new card. Too new for drivers to be mature. It would stand for reason that the newest drivers are the most bug free but that might not be the case.

Also the try couple of DirectX versions from this year.

And oh, do you have Vista or XP? If you are running with Vista try the XP compatible mode. And did you just change the card or the other hardware also?

It's usually recommended to uninstall a previous video driver before installing new one. And do a registry cleanup in between (www.ccleaner.com) is great for that.

Like Nikolaus said. Make sure you have all the extras disabled in nvidia control center. That is all the radio buttons and ticks are in "let application decide" mode.

Have you tried to run the FL in windowed mode?

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Flying under radar.

[Hyperion]

Well i have a 512Mb 8800GTS, and i have problem with very new drivers+old games. So i would recomend that you install one of the oldest drivers for this card.
Disableing shaders, turning down freq, refresh rate affects nothing by me (85Mhz refresh, anti-a, 1600*1200, and FL runs without a problem--with old drivers)

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lurking in the darkness...

[Jonathan_Archer_nx01]

A lot of crashes occured to me with Nvidia 175.19 driver, especially when entering JG/JH.
I replaced them with 175.16 and it's all fine.

[SilentAssassin82]

Also another sugestion i kow of with Nvidia cards. If it is made by a sister company i.e. PNY, Zotac, XFX. Then download the driver from thiere site. Somtimes the global drivers Nvidia release them selfs dont fully work on the card.

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[Igiss]

My apologies, this was all probably due to my unattentiveness. I didn't set Freelancer resolution to 1280x960, as I did every time before. Instead, default 1024x768 resolution was used.

Changing resolution, and/or playing with settings for planet atmospheres and environmental maps (the last one seems to be most sensitive - what is it responsible for?) helped to eliminate the crashes, at least for now.

Will post again if problem will return. Btw, XFX website doesn't contain any drivers.

[Epholl]

The important thing is that FL works for you again.

:yahoo:

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[SilentAssassin82]

Will post again if problem will return. Btw, XFX website doesn't contain any drivers.

That must have happened in the last few months. My last card was an XFX 6600 DDRIII. And i used to get my drivers from thiere site somwere. And i must say its by far the best graphics card i have had. XFX make good cards. They tweek them themselfs as far as i know. The only reason i switched the card was because it was AGP.

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[niko_]

I had the exact error with my Freelancer.

I got it working just by rebooting my computer and trying again.

Sometimes in the Freelancer installation it tells you to reboot your computer after you've installed it.

If you don't do that like I didn't, that will happen and it propably won't work until you reinstall it and reboot it right after when the installation is done.

So as far as I know, reboot should work.

That's how I solved it when I used to have that problem..

[Jonathan_Archer_nx01]

I didn't set Freelancer resolution to 1280x960, as I did every time before.

Please, how to set this resolution? I can only set it to 1152x864 and below.

[Igiss]

No idea. It's just possible to set it, nothing more.