So after years of abstinence I came back to crossfire. I tried to install it on a Win11 in a parallels environment (19) on an apple m1 (I know, why game on this...).
Install went fine. Went with the default options apart from Juni ;-).
Launcher starts and updates itself.
Then I start to launch the SP campaign (also with default). I offers an update and I accept (round about 1050 Files requested as update). After that it starts, shows "Crossfire is running", the launcher music stops and for a second a black screen opens. I saw that I wasn't the first with this problem but found no solution. I saw that I wasn't the first with this problem but found no solution.
I then continued to try most of the shader options and start it. Strangely Every time I tried tot start it, a new update (smaller, 57 files) was available, but I got the same result, no matter the shader options. Also tried different combinations of windowed mode, screen resolution (and fit to resolution). Same symptoms every time.
In Event Viewer there are multiple application errors from each try. The last one (with Vanilla FL) I timed and could provide some logs probably.
The first crash was with moors.dll:
Faulting application name: Freelancer.exe, version: 1.0.1223.11, time stamp: 0x00534d69
Faulting module name: moors.dll, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b70f164
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00001273
Faulting process id: 0x0x1E90
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA3F5E0C608A76
Faulting application path: C:\Freelancer Crossfire\EXE2\Freelancer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Freelancer Crossfire\EXE2\moors.dll
Report Id: e0cea252-c8f4-4504-91e7-b81dfffe4583
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
then in order:
2. storyfactions.dll
3. dynastex.dll
4. ShieldOffline.dll
5. jflp.dll
6. chklootvol.dll
... it goes on until the last one was
scroller.dll
and there are some dxdiag (attached) logs referenced.
So maybe even though Parallels on an ARM CPU with an ARM Windows that emulates x86 ... maybe someone could help me. I would really love to dive into crossfire. Started with the HD mod (which worked) and while playing the 8th mission ... yeah well.
Thanks anyway for creating such a great mod and continuing to develop it!