Please do note, especially those under 20 reading this: Starlancer is still as I'm typing this a 17 year old game, running with it's original textures. No enhancements needed, just people to play with, you can set it up yourself quite easily and free using Softether VPN ( ) and selecting to add your server free of charge to the MS Azure network. Install the wrappers and they(assuming A3D will work) will be selectable from the audio configuration menu)ġ4. A3D audio was an original feature of the game, and should now be available on any card using the A3D-Live! Soundwrapper ( ), but starlancer did not detect it, I still need to look deeper into that. Part 3: Enhance Sound(restore the positional audio):ġ3: - If you have a modern creative labs soundcard, the game will recognize the alchemy wrapper after you installed it, and run EAX, you can download it from here. The game will then be able to work with FF again, on any joystick that's correctly set up. Nvidia and AMD cards will display better graphics with their respective virtual super resolution features enabled.ġ2: Set the compatibility mode for your starlancer shortcut to windows XP. Launch the game, everything should redraw properly now. Using notepad, open the starlancer.ini file, change the values XRES to 1280 and YRES to 1024, (this is the maximum stable resolution the game engine will do!)ġ1. AFTER APPLYING THE UNDERLYING, NEVER USE THE GRAPHICS OPTIONS MENU AGAIN, IT'll default back to 640x480 when you do, if that happens just repeat step 10 and 11-ġ0. Enable Application Controlled Fullscreen, set Anti-Aliasing to "App driven", Enable "Apply Phong Shading when possible"ĩ.3 Run the game(it'll do some detection work first, go to options, select video, set it to 1024x768 mode, it should see the dgVoodoo2 as a display adapter and that is what you should select. Set Resolution to your display(in my case 2560x1440). Max out the vram(256mb probably) Enable the following: "Force Biliniar filtering", "Force Liniar mip filtering". Download dgvoodoo2, version 2.53 from here: ĩ.1 Extract both the Dgvoodoo2.exe and the 3 DLL's in the MS subfolder into the starlancer game directory itself(no subdirectories)ĩ.2 Run dgvoodoo2: Select your output device, force it to the resolution you want(I use 1440p(2560x1440), enable all the alternate effects, change the top option to the current folde(under the drop-out-box it's your first choice), on the directX tab, select the ati or nvidia card as output. Part 2:, enhancing the graphics to more modern standards, fixing the vomit-look starfields and get those connect-the-dots nebula to look proper again:ĩ. NOTE: You only need to run these commands once, since you are actually patching the exe, not running it in some special way-Ĩ. Take the starlancer shortcut, set it to "always run as administrator" run the following commands(just like ReadyRed above) "imagecfg -a 0x1 lancer.exe" "imagecfg -a 0x1 lancer.icd"ħ. ![]() run a command prompt with administrative priveleges(search icon, cmd, right-click, run as administrator), and navigate to your game directory.Ħ. Download imagecfg from here:, unpack into the game directory(Default= C:\programfiles(x86)\microsoft games\starlancer)ĥ. Then 3: Apply the NOCD patch you can find here: Ĥ. Managed to get the game stable and applied some tricks to make the game look like you remember it: enjoy this fine game (i played it scince 11 years ago and i'am 45 years old.) alternative download the fixed executable from ġ0. do not use any compatibility fix and run as administrator. start the game using the normal shortcutĨ. Start the starlancer.bat and it looks like this: ħ. copy this in the Game Directory like: D:\StarLancerĥ. Create a batch file (txt-file and rename it) named Starlancer.bat with the following in it:Ĥ. Download imagecfg (google: imagecfg download) and extract it to Game Directory like: D:\StarLancerģ. OMG, that's it !!! This is the solution to get StarLancer run on Windows 7 64/bit ! Exactly following this instruction:Ģ. Also ensure that you use the newest secdrv.sys and binkw32.dll (search other installed games and copy the newest into game directory after making a backup copy of the old ones) ![]() By the way in the properties of the lancer.exe do not use any compatibility fix and run as administrator.ĩ. Play the game using the normal shortcut.Ĩ. create a batch file named Starlancer.bat with the following in it:Ħ. (the batch file changes the lancer.exe and lancer.icd files)Ĥ. Make a backup copy of your exe and icd files. Unzip it to Windows\system32\ as well as Windows\system32\dllcache\ģ. Download imagecfg (a tool that came with windows 2000 server)Ģ. ![]() ![]() This is the way I made it stable and I only had one crash thus far and this was due to Norton AV.ġ. Then I discovered the problems with stability stemmed from the game having a problem with multi-core and hyperthreading. I had a lot of problems with Starlancer and Windows XP and then with Windows 7.
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