Problems

I haven't played Freelancer in years and had been reading about this mod off and on for months and decided to check it out.

I have a problem, it won't run.

I can run Freelancer without any issues at all.

To start off, Ive followed the install guide here: http://www.swat-portal.com/portal/download/CFguide.swf to a T, up to step 11 anyways, and still cant get the game to launch. The Crossfire launcher comes up, I let it update, and when I click to launch a multiplayer or singleplayer game, it closes and nothing happens.

I've tried restarting after the Freelancer install, I've tried installing the 1.1 patch just incase that wasn't listed as a needed step, I've tried launching the singleplayer before crossfire patched everything and it had the same problem. I rubbed Picards head with the mouse pointer to see if that would help, it didn't. I've downloaded Crossfire 1.7 from two different locations, on the SWAT website and from Filefront. I've started freelancer and accepted the agreement/whatever it is and then started the mod and nothing has changed.

I don't know if this could matter, but I'm installing the game on a seperate HD instead of C, I'm putting all my games on the E drive. I installed Freelancer, FLMM and then the crossfire mod all there. I'm running WinXP SP2 and I've not installed any other FL mods.

There is no EULA if I give it a fresh install and run the mod, I've even tried running the game before starting the mod and accepting the EULA and then enabling the mod.

When uninstalling the game I've told it to delete profiles/savegames/screenshots etc, I'll just have to manually check I guess.

I'll install it on the drive I have windows installed on and see what happens. This'll be the fifth time I've reinstalled the game.

well, just tried that, still nothing. I click single/multi and get an hour glass icon for a brief second then nothing happens.

Now I just disabled the mod, if I try to launch freelancer normally, I get "The application failed to inialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application"

Checking it out, this is the first thing I get from google "The error 0xC0000005 is generated by an illegal "memory access violation". This can be caused by anything from faulty RAM, an incorrect/corrupt device driver, poorly written/updated software and more commonly under Windows XP Service pack 2, malware/adware installations."

Now I only have this issue after disabling crossfire and trying to run freelancer.

Could I somehow have a bad copy of Crossfire even if I have downloaded it from two different locations?

The game does not launch, even if I check the task manager it doesn't show up in there, there is no EULA coming up. There's nothing down in the task bar, i've even tried alt tabbing incase it is somehow invisible, nothing happens. I've let the computer sit for a little bit, nothing happens.

I don't run a software firewall or an antivirus. I run a few messengers, BOINC, and Steam. I also have Daemon Tools runs... I don't see how that could affect anything... but... anything's possible.

I'll disable that and see what happens.

I just went in and did a fresh install/update in safemode, restarted into windows, disabled everything extra running in windows, the game still will not launch with crossfire activated.

Son of a monkey....

Guess what I just did.

I looked around in the freelancer folder, FLMM was putting everything in a mod folder inside the freelancer game folder, not installing it into the main freelancer folder. I copied everything in the mod folder into the main freelancer folder and the game booted right up.