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Calling all experts, please help? In preparation for a CF2.0 mod, I have been trying to get an original, disk copy, of Freelancer to run on a recently rebuilt Windows 7 Pro, x64. I have been playing FL in SP and occasionally MP mode for many years and installed FL on many x32 bit machines without issue. Although, the program appears to install all the files correctly in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer folder, it will not run and crashes out immediately. My hardware is: x2 T…

Hi. Thanks for your prompt reply. No Saved Games. My Games\Freelancer was not created from the install. I believe that this is only created when the program runs for the first time? All previous attempts to load the program with fully uninstalled and the registry cleaned manually.

Hi Guys, Thanks for your replies. After installation the Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer folder is set to Read-Only, but I then "Un-set" for the folder and all-sub-folders, before manually setting the Compatibility of all .exe files to Windows XP(SP3) and Run-As-Admin, and the User Control to Full for all files. As for the drivers I am using the latest drivers from Nvidia, but possibly not from Creative for the SB X-Fi. I will double check the latter now and report back later.

Hi All, unfortunately I still cannot get Freelancer to run on my Windows 7 x64. I have now downloaded SystemInternals from Microsoft and have been teaching myself how to use the Process-Monitor. If you ever get stuck trying to solve a difficult problem with Windows Software, then I highly recommend you use this tool. I used ProcMon to capture the complete process sequence when Freelancer attempts to run and I have discovered that FL, rundll32 and ~f1d055.tmp all try to access the Wing.dll and th…

(Quote from Elbe) Hi All and especially Elbe who I owe a great debt of thanks. I have been offline for several weeks because in my frustration over this problem I managed to scramble my machine and had to re-install the OS from scratch. I then got stuck in the latest Microsoft nightmare of "not being able to run Windows Update". Thankfully I eventually solved the update problem and returned here to see if the community had any more advice. Elbe you were 100% correct; Microsoft's KB3086255 updat…