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    Since the big graphic update me and some others experienced client crashes when we saw ships explode.
    It seems like Freelancer gets minimized but you can not activate it nor close it completely without killing the process.


    This problem sometimes does and sometimes doesnt occure. 3D sound is turned off of course etc etc
    My computer is not broken and Im running recent drivers.

    if explosions happen with this blur engine effect the light is very bright and you get dazzled by it. Maybe this causes an overflow in the buffer and thatswhy the game crashes to desktop... BTW OP mentioned already that you can deactivate the new graphics (its somewhere in this forum...)

    was it shift+f12 ?

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    no because shift + f12 only disables the blur in game while the intro and all other are still with blur... you need to delete a dll or a ini - i am not sure as i dont have these files ;)

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    delete the d3d8.dll from the freelancer\exe directory


    by OP somewhere in the forum


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    shift+f12
    completly disables it also in menu + intro (if you would press it there)

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    but after restart of CF it is activated again - thats what i saw on my brothers PC

    yes thats normal

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    Only dead fish swim with the stream.
    Don't discuss with idiots. They only drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience there.


    This is ten percent luck,
    Twenty percent skill,
    Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
    Five percent pleasure,
    Fifty percent pain,
    And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

    yes and so its always activated in the intro - unless you delete the dll ;)
    And my brothers intro is looking wierd - the screen gets white - every second another part of the display - until everything is white and the main menu appears...


    its nothing i am bothered about coz i dont have these probs - but maybe something you can consider if you are going to release it ;)

    do you really watch this stupid intro everytime you launch FL?
    seriously you spent too much time with microsoft meanwhile ^^

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    Only dead fish swim with the stream.
    Don't discuss with idiots. They only drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience there.


    This is ten percent luck,
    Twenty percent skill,
    Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
    Five percent pleasure,
    Fifty percent pain,
    And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

    Let say there is no d3d8.dll in my EXE floder. Where do I press Shift F12 and do I have to press it every time I launch the game?

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    do you really watch this stupid intro everytime you launch FL?
    seriously you spent too much time with microsoft meanwhile ^^


    LoL - it wasn't on my PC - as i was not at home when you made it available for some days - so i still have a version without this effects :D


    And i personally have deactivated the intros :) If i want to play the game then shortly after i started the game and not after several minutes^^
    ...considering this... i hope it is no cheating XD


    BTW: Yep Black - everytime you start the game... btw i thought without this dll it should not work anyway

    The problem is still there after reinstalling Freelancer and my drivers. Shift F12 does not work (whereever I press it). I did not find a way to deactivate blur in the forums. It would be really nice if someone could give me a hint where to search. As I said there is no d3d8 dll in my FL exe directory and even shift F9 doesnt change a bit.


    To the other users who experianced this: Do you run widescreen?


    Update: This is the Error I get when I wait a couple of seconds after the crash:

    black try to update or reinstall directx - the current version is from march this year.


    As you have the original cf setup i think the engbase.dll you use is the default one. So any other external driver maybe causes this crashes...

    what does it say in flspew.txt file
    what does it say in the dx diag.txt file?
    Thats where the details are
    Also have you tried running dxdiag to see what the prob is?

    dxdiag


    The FLspew file is about half a MB of really complicated text. If anyone has an idea what to search for that would be great.

    have u run dxdiag.exe yet? test everything
    Audio drivers are very old,latest are 5.10.0.6260 make sure you the get the correct ones for your motherboard
    I am not sure why you have a mix of german and english dlls in direct x and sound
    Update direct x after you have done sound driver
    The freelancer.exe version is the original not the CF one.Check your fl folder should be 1.7.0.141

    i experienced also these crashes - directx is quite ok and up to date - dxdiag tells no errors. Even debugged the crash - but i dont have any experience with assambler code ;(
    Maybe i can reproduce this crash when i am at home with the appropriate tools - but not sure now


    sometimes it says its in the engbase.dll - but not always...
    We now experienced that reducing the LOD brings some impovements - but i am sure the reason of this crash is still there.


    The engbase.dll is also quite OK - with one or two unreferenced functions but this should not cause the crashes.


    Until now i am clueless what else can cause it ;(

    The new sound drivers brought no change but:
    For me the Problem is solved after turning down the effects to 50%.
    As there is no visible change in my graphics im fine.


    Also I want to thank everyone, especially Wavey for helping. When I posted the file I was sure nobody would read it.