REWARD: I cannot play and I am desperate!

[Ximen_Benitez]

ALRIGHT! There is a 30 million reward for the idea that makes this work WITHOUT making me uninstall my current firewall/antivirus.

I will try (almost) ANY suggestion that is given.

Try adding DSupdate.exe and Freelancer.exe to its safe files or something like that

Done. Still nothing.

You might try completely deactivating it. By which I mean end any related process in the task manager, and stopping related processes in the Services list in the Control Panel.

After all, if it isn't running at all, you shouldn't have a problem.

EDIT: You HAVE tried adding the server's port to the exception list in your firewall, right? That and the typical DirectX Game ports? I think they are like 2303 and 2304? Or maybe 2302 and 2303? Hell I can't remember, just try adding 2300 through 2304.

EDIT's EDIT: Yea its 2302 and 2303 usually.

From what I can see, "All Ports" are allowed for Freelancer. I'm not sure how to open specific ports for things like DirectX. I've been looking around, but I'll look some more.

Had the same problem on my new pc as well. (Which is -still- in the shops for repairs DX) And was quite reluctant to swap antivirus'. Though, try Avira. It's free and seemed to work quite well. It's either that or no Freelancer.

Hmm... let me try everything else before I resort to anything else.

I have 64 bit Vista Home Premium, Firewall up, Norton Antivirus running, no ports open, and FL runs perfectly for me.

When I activated the mod, I ran FLMM in XP SP2 "Compatibility Mode", and the mod installed ferpectly and I can now play ferpectly. Have you tried the running in "Compatibility Mode"?

I have. It doesn't do anything.

Ximen, try the Forum for that particular program.

It's a pretty good guess that someone there will have had a similar problem at some point and (hopefully) will know a way around it.

If all else fails, sit down and have a good solid look through the help files for it. It can't hurt and it might actually help.

I got on with their help chat. They told me to run in "gamemode" which I've been doing this whole time with no success. After i told them that, they never responded. I haven't had a ton of time to look through help files, but I will soon. If I find something in help files, you win the 30 mill reward.:)

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