Freelancer Crashes

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Problem never occurs in Liberty System, however, when I "Launch to Space"
from a port in say, Shikoku, the game crashes almost every second time. There
is no error message, Freelancer simply minimizes and exits.

This is on multiplayer games, the server still thinks that I am in the game,
and it is not until i restart freelancer and join the server that it gives
other players the message

player departing
new player

this is really annoying because I usually lose a really good mission that I
signed up for.