Yes I have already searched and there isnt an answer that helps.
I have never been able to see these roids ,last night with Rhone and Gunny we noticed the following in Custodian
1: Rhone in his miner could see roids and mined them got zilch ,he could bounce off it ect
2: I couldnt see it and i could fly straight thru where it was
3:Gunny then found one but neither Rhone or I could see it .
What can make them invisible and nonexistent to me ?
Why could Gunny see it and not us ?
Why could Rhone see another and we couldnt ?
Why couldnt Rhone get anything from the ones he mined?
We wanted to see if mining was profitable but it looks totally borked in some way
Im using a Radeon 4890 with 2gig mem and latest drivers,I tried DWs tip to add it to list but no listing there for my card anyway so nowhere to put it 
Invisible Mega Roids
- Wavey
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There is this thread, where people who couldn't see them could "fix" that. (I remembered the thread, but found with searching "mega roid" )
Apparently your graph card is too new for the FL engine to recognize it.
Will quote it here:
QuoteDisplay MoreFreelancer had it´s Release in 2003.
You might think, well, perfect my Grafic Card is from 2009 this Game will run perfect within my High End Gaming System.
But unfortunal this old Game may not recognise your Card.
For this Louva-Deus (cudos man) updated the File which is responsible for the detection of you grafics card on a regular base. Unfortunal the File is now outdated.
But it is not that hard to do it yourself.
Just follow this manual step by step to put your grafic card into the database, so the game will proper recognize it:
First of all you need the manufacturer and the vendor of your Grafics Card.
With a freeware Tool called GPU-Z it will be easy to find out:
1) Download this tool by using this GPU-Z Download Link .
It´s an exe file, you do not need to install anything. Simply doubleclick it whereever you downloaded it to (on Vista and above with Admin rights please).
You will see something similar like this:
The marked parts are what you need.
1) Now open your mypathtofreelancer\Freelancer\EXE Directory in your Explorer.
2) Search for a file named flconfigdatabase.txt and open it with for example notepad (if the file is write protected you need to disable the write protection first).
3) Search your manufacturer in the file - in my case NVIDIA
4) Have a look where your type of Card is listed - in my case GeForce
5) Scroll down to the last GeForce (or ofc. your Crads type) entry - in Crossfire 1.9 it´s:0x0398 = "GeForce Go7600 (??)" // added by Louva-Deus
for the GeForce Cards.
6) Now insert your Grafic Cards Vendor by using the second marked part of GPU-Z which is in my case 0A34 - simply put a 0x before and the correct name of your Card without the name of the manufacturer behind it so it will look like this for example:
0x0A34 = "GeForce GT 240M" // added by Daywalker
7) Save the File.
You will notice that several glitches will not exsist anymore. Also you will be able to see the Mega Asteroids which makes mining more profitable and some more things. In many cases where spawning NPC´s stucked the Game it also went away.
Have fun.
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GPU-Z-Screenshot.gifSource thread: index.php?page=Thread&postID=284019#post284019
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index.php?page=Thread&threadID=23100 heh, Mike was faster
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I think asteroids spawn as per induvidual players. Megaroids are the same as normal asteroids, but with a larger model, more loot and lower chances of spawning i guess.
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You have to add your card in that file, as a new card, as of course it's not already in that list as it's not supported. If it was in that list you wouldn't need to do anything.
Now, on the details... dunno, as I haven't needed it, so I never done it. sry
Maybe OP can help, if you have patience.
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they are client side with other words... it is impossible that 2 players see the same roid
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wavey i know how it works now. so please whisp me ingame
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Hi Wavey!
I have ATI Radeon HD 4850 and can see megaroids after adding my card to this file.
Here it is:
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// Freelancer Config Database
//
// SceneRenderer // Scene based renderer (eg: PowerVR, Kyro etc...)
// NoAlphaTest // Disable alpha test (conflicts with other modes)
// oTriLinear // Do not attempt trilinear filtering
// NoTripleBuffer // Do not attempt triple buffering
// DefaultBltNotFlip // In full screen mode, use BLT
// NoFog // Do not attempt fog
// TextureOffset // Texel offset for fonts is done on x,y's not u,v (eg: Riva128)
// BrokenAlphaTest // Cards that cannot do Alpha test without ALPHABLEND being enabled (eg: ATI Rage)
// RenderEqualZ // Render bit depth must equal Z bit depth (eg: nVidia cards)
// NoParallelism // Lock the back buffer after rendering (eg: Voodoo3 - queueing up too many blits)
// BadMouse // Card can never use GDI mouse (eg: Voodoo)
// NoMipMap // Disable mipmaps
// Bad4444 // Disable 4444 textures (eg: Chromatic Mpact)
// NoDisablePerspective // Disable disabling perspective correct texturing (eg: Voodoo cards)
// LimitTextureSize // Limit texture size to 256*256 to correct bad caps
// ForceSquareTextures // Do not allow non-square textures
// NoStretchTexture // Force system memory stretch blit to square up textures
// SlowDisplayModeChange // Prevent video drivers that take a while before sending the WM_DISPLAYCHANGE msg from getting stuck in an endless loop of display mode changes (eg: Savage 4)
// Bad8888 // Disable 32 bit textures (eg: Voodoo)
//
// Disable1600x1200
//
// MaxOverallGraphicDetail = 1 // For older Rage cards
// DisableCompositeTerrainTextures = true // For older Rage cardsSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSource0x5046 = "Rage Fury Pro/MAXX PF"
NoParallelism
if os > win2k
if driver < 6.13.10.3279
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os == win2k
if driver < 5.13.1.3279
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os < win2k
if driver < 4.12.1.61 // Last available MAXX driver
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
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Vendor = 0x10ba "3D Labs"
Vendor = 0x3d3d "3D Labs"
Vendor = 0x1048 "3D Labs"SourceSource0x0001 = "GLiNT 300SX"
0x0002 = "GLiNT 500TX"
0x0003 = "GLiNT"
0x0004 = "Permedia"
0x0005 = "Permedia"
0x0006 = "GLiNT MX"
0x0007 = "Permedia 2"
0x8901 = "GLiNT"
0x0008 = "GLiNT G1"
0x0009 = "Permedia 2"
0x000a = "Permedia 3"
0x000b = "Oxygen Series R3"
0x000c = "Permedia 4"
0x000d = "Oxygen Series R4"
0x000e = "Oxygen Series Gamma2"
UnsupportedHardware
break
0x0100 = "Permedia 2"
UnsupportedHardware
DefaultBltNotFlip
NoMipMap
0x0301 = "Permedia 2"
UnsupportedHardware
TextureOffset
break
0x1004 = "Permedia"
UnsupportedHardware
break
0x3d04 = "Permedia 1"
0x3d07 = "Permedia 2"
UnsupportedHardware
TextureOffset
DefaultBltNotFlip
NoMipMap
breakSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSource//
// SAVAGE
//
0x8a22 = "Savage 3D S4"
0x8a23 = "Savage 3D S4"
Disable1600x1200
FL_BAD_WFOG
FL_BAD_DXTN
FL_BAD_MOD2X
NoParallelism
NoTriLinearSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSource//
// UNTESTED
//
0x8c10 = "Savage MX"
0x8c12 = "Savage IX"
0x8c22 = "SuperSavage 128 MX"
0x8c2a = "SuperSavage 128 IX"
0x8c2b = "SuperSavage 128 IX DDR"
0x8c2c = "SuperSavage IX"
0x8c2d = "SuperSavage IX DDR"
0x8c2e = "SuperSavage IXC SDR"
0x8c2f = "SuperSavage IXC DDR"
0x8d04 = "ProSavage"
UnknownHardware
Disable1600x1200
FL_BAD_WFOG
FL_BAD_DXTN
FL_BAD_MOD2X
DefaultBltNotFlip
TextureOffset
NoParallelism
SlowDisplayModeChange
break
//
// LEGACY
//
0x9102 = "Savage 2000"
0x8a20 = "Savage 3D"
0x8a21 = "Savage 3D S3"
UnsupportedHardware
FL_BAD_WFOG
FL_BAD_DXTN
FL_BAD_MOD2X
DefaultBltNotFlip
TextureOffset
NoParallelism
SlowDisplayModeChange
breakSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSourceSource0x7121 = "810 Graphics Controller"
0x7123 = "810-DC100 Graphics Controller"
0x7124 = "810E"
0x7125 = "810E Graphics Controller"
0x7126 = "810"
0x7127 = "810"
0x1132 = "815 Graphics Controller"
// Corrupted text fix for Intel chipsets 810-815--discovered by KinyaJuu 4/1/2003
// http://www.lancersreactor.com/…t_title=Freelancer&M=True
// Additional text fixes:
// Re-install Freelancer fonts from CD--discovered by Venom? 5/26/2003
// Re-install MS XML Parser from CD--discovered by Lich 2/3/2004
TextureOffset // Added
Bad8888
NoMipMap
//ForceSquareTextures // Commented Out
LimitTextureSize
if os > win2k
if driver < 6.13.10.3196 // XP Default: 6.13.01.3198 06/08/2001
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os == win2k
if driver < 5.13.1.3196
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os < win2k
if driver < 4.13.1.3196
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
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//
// TRIDENT
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////SourceSourceVendor = 0x1023 "Trident"
0x8420 = "CyberBlade i7"
0x9320 = "Cyber9320"
0x9388 = "Cyber9388"
0x9397 = "Cyber9397"
0x939A = "Cyber9397 DVD"
0x9440 = "Cyber"
0x9520 = "Cyber9520"
0x9525 = "Cyber9520 DVD"
0x9540 = "CyberBlade E4"
0x9660 = "Cyber9385"
0x9880 = "Blade 3D"
0x9910 = "CyberBlade XP"
0x9930 = "CyberBlade XPm"
if os < win2k
if driver < 4.12.1.2309
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
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(look below Mobility Cards list)However after that I had some problems with planetary rings. The setting found out to affect it was Catalyst A.I. - when you disable it, the rings are back.
Also, when it is disabled by default and there are no rings, you will need to enable it and then disable again.
I'm mentioning it because I don't actually know whether it affects anything else - maybe the rings were just the most noticable. It can be the reason why you add your card to the file and still see no megaroids.
The only thing I know for sure is that I see both rings and megariods now Hope it will help you too.Edit: sorry, look like I'm late with my post
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ty for putting that into an expandable menu Cresthen O_o
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They are not against the rules, as the game has to adapt to your computer if otherwise won't work (making the PC work with the game).
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Yeah it gives a disadvantage... Where people can fly freely, you ram into a megaroid.
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Disadvantages are not against the rules either, you can even use a 3 inch monitor to limit yourself
