Freelancer's serverlist won't update and constant crashing.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games (More info?)

Hi Myst,

Since that problem just started happening recently, try a System Restore.

How to use Windows XP System Restore:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp [...] estore.asp

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] ;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________


"MySt" <MySt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:74AB1D49-A678-4523-AECD-BC06AA6C658B@microsoft.com...
> I've done some work to try and fix this myself. I made sure all ports that
> freelancer uses were open on both my firewall and and router and that the
> firewall cleared freelancer.exe as an ok program but only servers that I
> manually target can even get a ping in the serverlist. (targetted by editing
> the shortcut like this "C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe" -s213.208.119.228:2302
> -s195.149.21.205:2302" )
>
> As for the crashing, it seems to be unprovoked. Sometimes it'll crash when I
> start up the program and connect to one of the two servers above. Sometimes
> it'll crash half an hour after I've been playing and am just flying around in
> my space ship. I've tried setting compatibility for windows 2000 and 98/me
> but that didn't help. I also did a few reinstalls and chkdsk, nothing helped.
>
> Freelancer used to work but suddenly stopped and I'm not sure if it was
> something installed or a virus but other than formatting my hd I don't see a
> way to fix it.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games (More info?)

Hi Myst,

Since it's affecting your connectivity, it could be adware related.
(visit microsoft.com/spyware for software suggestions). If that
doesn't resolve the issue, post back and we'll try something else.

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Assisted Support: http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=assistance
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

"MySt" <MySt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C6D3B350-9025-4100-A219-9C33A83FB515@microsoft.com...
>I had considered that but I don't play freelancer too regularly, especially
> lately where I've put a week between sessions. So I can't pinpoint the time
> this all started. Also I've installed nearly 20 programs in the past month
> and it could very well be a software conflict between any of them.