Vista - direct play for microsoft games [freelancer]

Hi there folks,
As a guy who likes the game Freelancer and who has just bought a new PC to
play on i have just discoverd that Freelancer doesn't work on Vista.After
much searching i have found out that Vista does not have Direct play so i
cannot connect to any server.Not to worry me thinks as ime sure that one of
you guys has a solution or knows when microsoft are bringing out a patch to
fix this

Windows Vista does include DirectPlay, but not DirectPlay Voice or Direct3D
Retained Mode. Can you perhaps be more specific about the error or behavior
you are seeing trying to run it? What kind of hardware and video do you
have? What video driver are you using?

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Chuck Walbourn
SDE, XNA Developer Connection

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Thx for the reply chuck,
i can run the game in vanilla,whenever i try to go online to play on a mod i
can get to the server list but when i try to connect to a server all i get is
that the was a connection problem my end or server end.I have checked all the
usuall avenues of firewalls etc but to no avail.i am running vista home
premium with a dual core AMD 5600 and an NVIDEA pro card.I have no trouble on
my XP machine and everything is set correctly.I am at a loss lol

"Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]" wrote:

> Windows Vista does include DirectPlay, but not DirectPlay Voice or Direct3D
> Retained Mode. Can you perhaps be more specific about the error or behavior
> you are seeing trying to run it? What kind of hardware and video do you
> have? What video driver are you using?
>
> --
> Chuck Walbourn
> SDE, XNA Developer Connection
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
>

hello
i am playing fl on vista and on line
the problme hase to do with vires protections!!!!!!
i have dune exparments. i have un instaled my nortan antivres.
fired up freelancer conect to servers no problme.
reinstaled nortan same erro as you get server hase gone off line.
now if you have vista 64 bit build then there is not much use of vires
protection yet cause no one hase realy made any vires that work on a 64 bit
machine so far.
but do exparemnts and try . un install your vires protection and i bet you
will be able to get on servers. i dont know y this is. but from what im
finding out is it hase to do with something they added in windows to work
with the antivres soft were.
so if ya want to play fl on line then ya have to dump your antivres
"Steve" wrote:

> Thx for the reply chuck,
> i can run the game in vanilla,whenever i try to go online to play on a mod i
> can get to the server list but when i try to connect to a server all i get is
> that the was a connection problem my end or server end.I have checked all the
> usuall avenues of firewalls etc but to no avail.i am running vista home
> premium with a dual core AMD 5600 and an NVIDEA pro card.I have no trouble on
> my XP machine and everything is set correctly.I am at a loss lol
>
> "Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]" wrote:
>
> > Windows Vista does include DirectPlay, but not DirectPlay Voice or Direct3D
> > Retained Mode. Can you perhaps be more specific about the error or behavior
> > you are seeing trying to run it? What kind of hardware and video do you
> > have? What video driver are you using?
> >
> > --
> > Chuck Walbourn
> > SDE, XNA Developer Connection
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> >
> >
> >

PS just in case some one askes did you have the fire wall down fore the
antivres and the ancer is yes. all so mcaffy, zone labes . all do the same
thing my xp machine no problme with antivres . my vista machine with
antivres .freelancer mplayer will say server gos off line. with them
uninstaled no problme conecting to servers
"MDF Destroyer" wrote:

>
> hello
> i am playing fl on vista and on line
> the problme hase to do with vires protections!!!!!!
> i have dune exparments. i have un instaled my nortan antivres.
> fired up freelancer conect to servers no problme.
> reinstaled nortan same erro as you get server hase gone off line.
> now if you have vista 64 bit build then there is not much use of vires
> protection yet cause no one hase realy made any vires that work on a 64 bit
> machine so far.
> but do exparemnts and try . un install your vires protection and i bet you
> will be able to get on servers. i dont know y this is. but from what im
> finding out is it hase to do with something they added in windows to work
> with the antivres soft were.
> so if ya want to play fl on line then ya have to dump your antivres
> "Steve" wrote:
>
> > Thx for the reply chuck,
> > i can run the game in vanilla,whenever i try to go online to play on a mod i
> > can get to the server list but when i try to connect to a server all i get is
> > that the was a connection problem my end or server end.I have checked all the
> > usuall avenues of firewalls etc but to no avail.i am running vista home
> > premium with a dual core AMD 5600 and an NVIDEA pro card.I have no trouble on
> > my XP machine and everything is set correctly.I am at a loss lol
> >
> > "Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> > > Windows Vista does include DirectPlay, but not DirectPlay Voice or Direct3D
> > > Retained Mode. Can you perhaps be more specific about the error or behavior
> > > you are seeing trying to run it? What kind of hardware and video do you
> > > have? What video driver are you using?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chuck Walbourn
> > > SDE, XNA Developer Connection
> > >
> > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> > >
> > >
> > >

Has anyone found a work around for this particular issue yet? Removing anti virus and anti spam is NOT a correct fix. Is this just a lost cause?

"pxwebdev" <pxwebdev.36x0a7@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message newsxwebdev.36x0a7@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...Freelancer works fine on my Vista box, never had a problem with it. What problem are you having? You responded to a message, but didn't include the original so I don't know what problem you are addressing.

-A.

Freelancer is giving me video issues, I have AMD 64 2.5 ghz machines, Nvidia 7900 GS, 2 gigs of ram running Vista Home Premium. I"ve unisntalled and re-installed this game numeerous times and even re-installed My Nvidia display drivers, I was however getting the same issue of Rainbow six Vegas 2 so re-installed Display adapters and it fixed the issues, now I re-installed Freelancer after doing so and its still Artifacting on the screen...When I get in game its quite annoying along with I have no VOICE dialog at all. Flying through space is interesting I'll tell you that much.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can remedy this?

What anti virus are you using on your Vista Platform?So far can not get
it to work on norton 360,MC Caffery......


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To get online with Freelancer you must use the "white list" of antiviruses to enable you to do so. AVG or Avast for example will enable you to get online. Remember to run as administrator and xp compatible.
Also if your playing FL with Vista disable 3d sound in the game options. This will solve all sorts of problems running the game.
Just found this thread so dont shout at me for the late post