Posts by KardFett

Huzzah! It finally works properly! After installing it literally about a dozen times spread out over three or so different methods, it finally works. I think (emphasis on the "think" word) what did it was restarting my computer after every single stinking step. Regardless, items and descriptions are showing up as they need to. Also, the starting movies work now, too, so if they don't, then anyone else with this problem could save themselves the time it takes to watch the starting cutscene by just checking if the starting movie works.

Thank you all again,
KardFett

Well, I've reinstalled it about seven times now, and it's the same issue. I go to the Manhattan commodity dealer to check on the pink swirly thing that costs 3700 credits to see if it ever works, and it never does.

Here's the exact order I do things: first, delete everything I can find related to Freelancer (game, saves, FMM, Crossfire) and I even re-downloaded the Crossfire 1.9 file, install Freelancer with administrator privileges, install FMM 1.31 with administrator privileges, run the Crossfire 1.9 executable file, run FMM and activate the Crossfire mod, start the game, go check Manhattan commodity dealer.

Thanks for your previous suggestions, though. Any more?

I'm a long time Freelancer fan and have just gotten back into it because I'm all excited for Star Citizen now, so I downloaded Crossfire because I remember being very impressed with it a few years ago.

I installed Freelancer vanilla, got FLMM 1.31 and Crossfire 1.9, everything installed correctly, it was all hunky dorey, except when I got to Pittsburgh after the first mission, I noticed that the 8 million credit ship had the same strange ID as some of the escape pod-things. After flying around and checking out some of the custom items (and ships), it was obvious that something wasn't right, because they all had the name "IDS?" and no little descriptive blurb down in the bottom left.

I changed all of the text back to original Freelancer text, wondering if that would help (it didn't). I'm running Windows 7 x64, the graphics are fine, I think it's just an instillation problem, but I guess I really don't know for sure or I wouldn't be asking.

Thanks to whoever helps,
KardFett