Freelancer and Win XP Pro 64

[Nosferatu]

For those of you who might be considering building a 64 bit system:

I just completed a new Win XP Pro 64 build. Happily, I am able to report that to this point Freelancer SEEMS completely compatible ;D
I have yet to try any actual game play with my new system, but installation of Freelancer worked without a hitch. I will report further if any problems develop

[Nosferatu]

After having played for several hours with the new system, I feel confident in saying that I expect not to see any operating system compatibility problems .... in other words, all is working great

[[Ronin]GoRn_LtCom]

I recently installed Vista 64bit. I rember there was a thread how to get FL work in Vista, but i dont know where it is. Anyone here who can help?

[Eagle]

I haven't been successfull myself in making it work in Vista, I read somewhere that installing a specific virus scanner was required to make it work as the default would block Freelancer. I don't recall which virus scanners though, at the time I used McAfee but that one was on the list of "does not work". I'm currently using AVG on XP, that might work for you?

There's also the option of making a dual boot system, thats what I've done and I can help you set that up!

[[Ronin]GoRn_LtCom]

Dont worry, XP is still on my harddisc and bootable One must be pretty brave to install Vista without keeping XP
I didnt know that Vista had a built in virus scanner. Ill see if I can get it to work somehow.

[Eagle]

I dont think it has, but without one it does block alot of stuff... which mucks up FL

[SyntaxError]

www.discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9310

there is a guide to making freelancer work on vista

even tho i got mine working without any problems or guide at all but i heard a lot of people have trouble with vista and freelancer but this was mostly cose of virus scanners, i dont have any on my computer so that might be why mine works withouit problems.

[Elatan]

I tried exactly that, didn't work for me. But I guess it's still worth a try for anyone else
I also tried with all virus scanners and firewalls as stuff like that deacticated, still no chance....

[Eagle]

Looks like a decent guide, is this working for you Gorn or is it still the same as with most of us

[[Ronin]GoRn_LtCom]

Didnt try yet. And tbh its sounds like too much of a struggle. I'll just boot XP if I want to play FL.

[Eagle]

Is the better plan indeed, hope to see you online sometime!

[watercoolerwarrior]

I'm running FL on Vista x64 with no problems now. For anyone who is thinking about using Vista, here's a simpler version of the process that should work without disabling all sorts of protection willy-nilly. Unfortunately, it's not going to be comfortable for people who aren't familiar with messing around with files and file locations.

I suggest the following steps:

(1) Install FL normally. Then run it as administrator once. You don't need to do much except for start it up then immediately quitting.

(2) Install FLMM.

(3) The first difficult step: extract any mods you will use; don't try to use FLMM to do it. FLMM can't copy files to Program Files when running with normal user permissions, and you can't drag and drop onto FLMM from your desktop when FLMM is running with admin permissions.

(4) Run FLMM and activate whatever mod you're using.

(5) Go into the control panel, start the Windows Firewall applet, and explicitly allow freelancer.exe exceptions. DO this even if it is already present; each time the version of freelancer.exe changes (as in during mod activation) the new version no longer has privileges to run.

That's a _really_ brief, armwavy overview, but I've used it on 3 Vista systems so far with no trouble.


think it comes down to 3 things that need to