Flying/Flickering Text

[Carlos_Benitez]

I have been through this forum looking for a solution, and whilst the problem has been mentioned numerous times in passing, I diddnt find a solution.

So, I recently installed freelancer on my new laptop. Heres the spec, for referance;

(Bought 2 months ago.)
Vista Home Premium 32bit.
Intel Core 2 Processor 1.37ghz
Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family.

I had a similar problem when I installed Vice City...only worse. Flying character maps and flickering. I updated my chipset drivers, and the problem was solved. (after many hours questioning the logic of new updates solving a problem with an old game).

Naturally, as a result, I have the latest drivers for my video card.. and I just checked again.

Anyways, the nature of the problem is that text is flying across the screen, in all directions, flickering and making it difficult to play. Its only once I get in-game that this begins. Main menu is fine. Menu within game suffers from the problem.
My game also crashes randomly for very little reason, although crashes seem to happen at a similar time to when a large ammount of flying-text appears.
If anyone can provide a solution, please post. Sorry if this has been solved before, and im simply useless at sifting through topics. :(

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[kingvaillant]

hummm, have you read the post Dboy made about Disco on Vista?

Maybe you should try to rollback to an older version of your video card

try to run the game as window XP (if not done)

maybe some picture to show what is happening?

Try to acces your event viewer to see if there has been an error while playing type: eventvwr in ''run''

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[DBoy1612]

*points to pinned topic in Software / Hardware forum*
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9310

Read step one, that will fix it.:)

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[Carlos_Benitez]

First thing I tried. Diddnt work.

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[ghostcat]

Well, my FL revently bugged, so that each line of text had four blank lines under it... and peoples names weren't appearing when they talked. A re-install did the trick quite nicely.

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Back, if I can get this thing working!

[Carlos_Benitez]

Its already a fresh install..but I might try again anyway. BTW. Diso is not yet installed. -so no glitches with that.

Heres afew screens of the problem. Its kind-of difficult to capture the glitch because they flash so quickly

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[Carlos_Benitez]

Update: Uninstalled, Re-installed, followed D-Boys instructions again, and its juast the same as It was.
Possibly related, my monitor is widescreen and I cant for the life of me work out how to get freelancer to fill the screen. All the options are normal-screen, and no widescreen option is given in game, leading to a 2 inch border on the left and right sides..

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