Same thing happened to me. What I did is that I went to my Freelancer/EXE directory and ran the game using "Freelancer.exe" Running CFLauncher.exe gave me the same error as you
(Quote from SWAT_OP-R8R) Ah crap, my mistake. I thought that was what I saw, instead the shortcut that I was talking about was directing to the Freelancer.exe file. Sorry for the mixup! So yeah it can be ran perfectly if you go in the directory, don't know why though.
(Quote from SWAT_OP-R8R) Nope, sorry for the false alarm! I thought that the shortcut was pointing to the 'CFLauncher.exe' but it wasn't. The file isn't present in the Freelancer directory either
(Quote from fraid2) Sorry there is no CFLauncer.exe, my mistake. But try to go to your Freelancer/EXE directory and manually run the 'freelancer.exe' from that folder like so:
(Quote from fraid2) Uhh I don't think you should run it from the FLMM directory (I think it breaks the game). It should work by running it from the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE" directory
I now have a problem where it crashes too, but it's ever since I updated. I ran the launcher, it updated and I quit out of it. I tried to re-run the launcher, and I get a 'CFLauncher' error:
(Quote from SWAT_OP-R8R) Yeah I've opened it and closed it like 10 times without any problems (Quote from Night-Hunter) Nope the server is up and I am receiving updates Check your firewall, if it's on add an exception to the program your computer might be blocking out the server