Freelancer Community Network

LOUVA-DEUS's Projects


This is the 'homepage' for projects released by Louva-Deus for the game Freelancer. These are organized from newest to oldest.

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Freelancer Hardware Update

The Freelancer Hardware Update package contains an updated set of Video Card display DeviceID's. The list of supported hardware grows as more hardware is submitted by players like you. If you are having trouble with the game because of having a video card made after the year 2000 then try this out.

History:
  • Apr 16--21 new Intel IGP Chipsets added
  • Apr 16--Fixed texture corruption with i810 and i815 Chipsets
  • Apr 16--Forced Intel users to update their drivers
  • Mar 18--10 new SiS IGP/GPU Chipsets added
Extract this package to Freelancer's EXE folder to update your hardware support.
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Freelancer QuickFix Patch

The Freelancer QuickFix Patch is the ultimate unofficial patch available to the Freelancer community. All versions of the SDKs and other unofficial patches, by anyone, will be superceded by the QuickFix patch. With that being said, anyone who has a fix they would like included in this patch for future versions needs to contact me. Additionally, if you know of bugs in the latest version of this patch that cause crashes in Multiplayer games, let me know. One last important note about this project is that there will no longer be a Plus version because this confused many people. From now on server admins will have to install the Microsoft 1.1 Patch over their copy of Freelancer as they used to do before. This patch is meant for all players and especially people running unmodified (Vanilla) Freelancer servers.

Features:
  • 3D Sound has been Disabled (Which fixes many sound problems for most people)
  • Advanced Graphics
  • Advanced Error Logging (Which makes troubleshooting problems easier)
  • Updated/Fixed freelancer.ini file
  • Updated video hardware support
  • Includes over 2000 code fixes from the Freelancer SDK v1.3b
  • Includes the battleship mismatched loadout crash fix (New!!)
  • Includes Freelancer Web Launcher v3.1.1.0 (see weblaunch.txt) (New!!)
  • The installer adds several new links to the Freelancer Web Links folder in your Start Menu (New!!)
Note: known issues:
  1. There are errors in the ini files! Yes.. this version of the patch is based on the 1.3 S.D.K.
  2. Battleship stations caused the client to crash if the client and server's loadouts_special.ini file were different. **Fixed March 13, 2007**
  3. The installer can only apply the perfoptions.ini changes on the active user, so if there are multiple windows users who play the game they will need to run the install again for each.
  4. You may need to reinstall the drivers for your video card, download newer ones, and/or reinstall the latest version of DirectX if your Video Card is not working properly.
  5. GeForce 6600 GT owners: your card seems to have some problems with Freelancer. Make sure you are using updated drivers.
  6. A very few people will experience severe problems if 3D Sound is disabled. If you are one of them, you can easily re-enable it in the game options.
If the game ever crashes and you get one of those famous error reports you should send it in because Microsoft does check these out and updates their F.A.Q. from time to time.

Credits: Chips, Glock36, Bakedpotato, Bluecat, Accushot, Gibbon, and all the other contributors over the last four years.
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Freelancer S.D.K.

The Freelancer SDK is the ultimate mod maker's platform available to the Freelancer community. This project will no longer be used as a patch but as a foundation for building mods, and from now on it will only be distributed in a ZIP archive form. The SDK is only for mod development and should not be used for any other purposes. The reason for this is because the SDK is not a 100% compatible with the original game, so if you use it as a patch then problems can occur, even crashes. The version of the SDK included in the QuickFix patch has been modified to be compatible with the original game and is not compatible with the real SDK. Please do not mix this up. This kit is only meant for mod making and nothing else.

Credits: Glock36, Tinyfish, Bluecat, Accushot, Gibbon, and all the other contributors over the last four years.
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Freelancer Web Launcher

Freelancer Web Launcher is an addon to Freelancer that provides permanent new functionality. This addon configures Windows to recognize "freelancer://ip:port/" links as legitament URLs that will launch the game with the specified "ip:port" and will automatically load that server into the Multiplayer Server List (LAN and Global). So now you can set up a webpage link for your server and visitors will be able to jump onto your server with a single mouse click. All you have to do is add code to your webpage something like this: Play on The Void!

This project was designed to act as a backup plan for the Global Server being shut down permanently but it also has other useful applications. Note to Mod Makers, one of these applications is that this works for Windows shortcuts as well as webpage links, so if you use a regular installer for your mod project that includes Start Menu entries, or if you provide a desktop shortcut for your server (Direct Connect style), then you can now add a direct link to your server to that group or as an even better desktop shortcut. Have one link to activate your mod and another to launch the game with your server preloaded.
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Advanced Error-Logging Config

This package includes an updated freelancer.ini file that enables the maximum level of error logging in the game. Useful to mod makers for debugging.
  • *Included In QuickFix*
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Vega Minor, Large System Concept

This is a proof of concept project that tries to create a more realisticly scaled system, it is approximately 470k in diameter. It features one tradelane, one in-system jumpgate, three large planets, a giant sun, orbital system design, three-dimensional layout, and maxed visibility ranges. This is a bare minimum template for concept proof, so you will have to add all of your own features if you intend to use it.
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Planetary Beacon Concept

This is a proof of concept project that replaces the docking rings in New York with invisible planetary beacons to give a more realistic landing process. There are two Modes:

Mode 1: Single Dock with planetary link - This mode allows you to select a planet as usual and use the dock command and it will work, also like usual only 1 ship can dock at a time.

Mode 2: Multi-Dock without planetary link - This mode allows up to 6 ships to dock at the same time, however you are not able to select the planet and dock you must select the beacon/dockring to dock to the base.
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Real Space Mod

The Real Space project is designed to create a more realistic feel to the original Freelancer game. It accomplishes this by visual changes as well as feature changes in gameplay. This mod was built on four previously developed 'plugins' which when combined formed the basic package for this mod. From there certain features were modified and enhanced and many smaller changes added to create the Real Space universe.

The Lite version was released specifically to be compatible with most mods as a clientside addon to apply some of the feel of Real Space to any mod that it works with.
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New Liberty Mod

The other half before it merged with the Real Space mod. Features upgraded Liberty House ships, enhanced AI, and ship explosions that do damage to nearby ships.
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SolarCrusher Torpedo Concept

A concept project to prove that a weapon could be made to kill even a shielded target in a single shot. Originally designed for fun to blast capital ships in a single shot. One version had an extremely high radial damage that instantly killed every ship within 2000km.
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New Start Concept

A concept project to prove that a player can be properly started out in a new location and have everything balanced properly. There was 1 bug with this project in that even when you started in Kusari space you always had the Liberty Police listed in your reputation because it was hardcoded into it.
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Swarm Missile Pod

A concept project to prove that a gundam-like swarm of missiles could be fired with low impact but extremely high accuracy. The latest public version did not support 'button-hold' firing but the test version did, this may be updated at a future date.
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New York Death

A concept project to see what the New York system might look like if its primary collapsed into a pulsar. The lighting work in this project was the inspiration for the Real Space mod.
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ezHack Mod

This project which was my first one for Freelancer was designed to allow players to jump right into the game on 1.0 servers. The reason for it was that at the time servers were completely unreliable and were prone to crashing and dissapearing altogether. So instead of having to start over everytime we have this clientside hack.