No Infocards

... eventhough Freelancer belongs to the top10 games at moddb (based on the daily visits)

I will recognise the FL lives on for many many MANY years (and have done so). This is a true classic and I am frankly surprised MS isnt doing a follow up FL2 - the sequel just needs to have a little more story, and open the code up for more modding and we have a winner. Blizzard did it with Warcraft, even put a modding program with it to encourage more modding and look at the audiance they hold.. smart move Blizz!

I still think Freelancer is holding it's own against all the new release space sims out there too, personally I always compare space sims to FL and find they fall short every time. X-universe is the closest, and has some amazing features that would be so much fun in a multiplayer space sim - but there is it's major downfall.. no multiplayer. The voice acting is rubbish too, and actually ruins the story for me, but that is something easily fixed.

-T

Is there anything changing in 1.8 that will help with "IDS?" issues?

I am sure Vista(the dog's mother that it is) is at fault here. Frustrating restarting Freelancer game 2-3 times before it works =(

I've had that sometimes aswell... just showing "IDS" and stuff but when I installed it on W7 and played on Vista again I never had the problem again

coincidence? O.o