Posts by involution

One of the things I did, to make sure that both Freelancer and FLMM's directories are excluded from scanning (I even checked if anything had been quarantined, and nothing did) -- and this before even starting the installation.

The launcher for Single-Player appears to download 5 files and then gives me the error. Would it e possible to know which are those files, so I can check if they exist in the directory or not? I have tried applying all the cautionary steps, including those in
Running Microsoft Freelancer on Windows 7, to no avail. (I should add that vanilla Freelancer works fine).

(update) I have never been able to play due to the "Error Copy" in the launcher. I emailed the TC to see if he has found a fix but he never replied. An update, however, is that today I noticed that the launcher self-updated first, and then upon trying to download the game update the error message changed code:

ERROR COPY [E0000029D] (shown after the progress bar indicated the download of 5/5 files)

This happens when hitting both the single- and multi-player buttons.

In case this helps please let me know!

(Win 7 Ultimate 64bit, never had problems like this one with any of the hundreds of games I install annually.)

Where do all these small variations come from if we all use the same installation files? (I assume the same Crossfire+FLMM file from this site, and the same original Freelancer). Will try again tomorrow. Too bad, I've been looking so long for this release!

This is getting weird. I no longer have the zip. Unzipped, the Crossfire20setup directory is

size: 2.69 GB (2,894,979,559 bytes)
on disk: 2.69 GB (2,894,991,360 bytes)

Quote from SilverFox

And in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Freelancer Mod Manager\mods" my "Freelancer 2 - Crossfire" folder is 6,41 GB (6.890.976.937 byte) and 8.464 files, 866 folders

I have the exact same size as Silverfox in my FLMM directory, so what does this mean? Possibly I can try to wipe Freelancer, reinstall again, and try to activate the mod again? I am using the original Freelancer CD and install it without patches, so I can't see where the changes come from. At least it seems good news that the data for the FLMM directory is the same.

Silverfox, here are the folder sizes:

Freelancer: 7.61 GB (8,181,564,114 bytes)
On disk: 7.65 GB (8,221,310,976 bytes)
Contains: 17,579 Files, 864 Folders

Freelancer/EXE: 112 MB (117,861,312 bytes)
On disk: 113 MB (118,501,376 bytes)
Contains: 314 Files, 10 Folders

Hope this helps, and I can check other directories if needed, of course.

Yes I do (UAC), as I always thought it unwise to disable. But I may try later, need to go to work now (ack, real life

UPDATE: I tried disabling UAC (all the way down, rebooted, etc.), and got exactly the same error codes. Sigh.

Thank you PVGoran -- the read-only boxes have always only been "checked and grayed", and after unchecking, hitting "apply" (and choosing the recursive "subdirectory" option), and doing it for the entire Freelancer directory, I am still getting the Error Copy E6 (for both single and multi-player updates). Disappointing, I know (and the grayed checkbox is back anyways).

I get different behavior if I use the "troubleshoot compatibility" option from the icon's right-click menu. Its "recommended options" are XP service pack 2, and doing so the update proceeds for more files before hitting the bad-sounding error "Missing Freelancer E00000166, which is confusing because Freelancer is right there. To clarify: without compatibility mode Single-Player downloads 2/2 files and then hits the Copy Error, while with XP service pack 2 on it downloads 3/3 files and then hits the other error.

So a question is, what is the right compatibility mode for this? I am running Windows 7 64-bit with all the updates.

Sure, I did that through the whole installation (mod manager included), and even if the icon's properties setting says "Run as administrator" I still right-click and run as administrator to make sure. I just don't think this is my problem. In the compatibility tab I have the boxes "disable desktop composition" (it was on by default) and "run as administrator" checked. By chance does the launcher expect the files to be on disk C:? I have the whole thing installed on H: (and the Crossfire installation detected that Freelancer was on H:, so I didn't think that could be the problem).

UPDATE: I reinstalled it three more times (and giving up now), each time trying to be even more careful than before (rebooting at every step, and so on). Changing drives, too, last time on C: in all the default directories. Again, sadly, the same error code when the launcher updates. So please, if anyone has had this problem and could find the fix, please share it here -- I feel it might be a very small thing, and yet without it I can't play the game at all.

No dice, sorry. One issue is that the read-only setting keeps coming back. Another is that some Windows advice sites say that the flag has no actual effect (or else I should be removing the flag for just about any program doing writes). I have administrator privileges everywhere. Anything about the compatibility issues perhaps? I have plenty of other games on the drive and none of these difficulties with them.

Still getting E000000E6 Error Copy. It appears as if the launcher downloads files as if it were working right, and the last step comes up with the red error message). I went through all the installation steps very carefully (as administrator, etc.). Running Windows 7 ultimate, 64-bit.