RE: Freelancer Vista Issues...

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Hey i had similar issues to you, i found this on the microsoft support site -
give it a shot (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814551)

When you use the Intel 810/815 video adapter, you may experience corruption
of text on buttons in the Freelancer game interface. But the game installs
and operates with no further issues. To troubleshoot this issue, follow these
steps: 1. Locate the program directory in Freelancer. By default, the
location is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer
2. Use Notepad to open the FLConfigDatabase.txt file.
3. Scroll to the Intel section that is located towards the bottom of the
document. Alternatively, you can search by using "0x8086" (without the
quotation marks).
4. Locate the "810" and "815" section. This will look similar to the
following:
0x7121 = "810" 0x7123 = "810" 0x7124 = "810e" 0x7125 = "810e" 0x7126 = "810"
0x7127 = "810" 0x1132 = "815" Bad8888 NoMipMap ForceSquareTextures
LimitTextureSize
5. Edit this section by removing the "ForceSquareTextures" line. This will
look similar to the following:
0x7121 = "810" 0x7123 = "810" 0x7124 = "810e" 0x7125 = "810e" 0x7126 = "810"
0x7127 = "810" 0x1132 = "815" Bad8888 NoMipMap LimitTextureSize
6. Save any changes that you made to the file, and then close the file.


"Ernst A Vorndran" wrote:

Hey Everybody

I am having weird graphical issues when playing Freelancer on my vista pc,
the game itself runs smooth as silk but the text and in game windows do this
weird jumping off the page thing. I've tried tweaking the video settings
but nothing seems to stop it. I have a 256 MB onboard graphics card (which
will have to do till I can fork out the $ for a XFX Alpha Dog 512MB extreme
edition to make my rig complete.) So I didn't thing graphic's should be a
problem, thought after installation it did come up with a "Graphic's card
not recognized" message.

If anybody's got any idea's or suggestions it would be helpful.

Thank

Ernst


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