Serious Laptop Issues

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Hey there everyone

My mate has recently got a new laptop, A Sony Vaio of some kind (I've googled its model number and nothing comes up which I find most odd) and it has serious issues with some games. Freelancer Included.
It is running Vista Home Premium with integrate Intel graphics. (A useless chip that screws up Battlefront II all the time unless you join a multiplayer game through X-fire... then it works fine... go figure).
Most of my mates being big Freelancer Discovery fans we have it installed on all our machines with discovery 4.84. We installed it on his laptop and the mod activated fine and everything but when we come to run it it pops up with a little box saying something like "the character file is missing" or it can't find it. These "missing files" change everytime we try to start it up and when we look through the folders in the Freelancer directory every single one it has mentioned is there.

What is going on? Will a reinstall fix it or is there something more sinister here?

Regards

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