Freelancer: HD Edition is a mod that aims to improve every aspect of Freelancer while keeping the look and feel as close to vanilla as possible. It also serves as an all-in-one package for players so they don't have to worry about installing countless patches and mods to create the perfect HD and bug-free install.
This mod was made possible thanks to the assistance of project Freelancer: Nomad Legacy. Huge thanks to the developers for allowing us to use their textures!
Freelancer: Nomad Legacy website
Freelancer: Nomad Legacy Mod DB page
N.B. Freelancer: HD Edition does not add additional content on top of Freelancer but rather enhances what the game already has to offer. Although minor gameplay changes were made, Freelancer: HD Edition will always be compatible with vanilla Freelancer. Therefore, players can use this mod to play on all vanilla servers as long as the server owners allow these changes.
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Content
Visual
- HD Asteroids
- HD Character Models
- HD Cockpits
- HD Effects
- HD Mission & News images
- HD Nebulae
- HD Planets
- HD Ships
- HD Space objects
- HD Starspheres
- HD Startup Screen & Main Menu logo
- HD System & Universe Map
- Improved reflections
- Increased effect pool sizes
- Maximized draw distances
- New interface with new icons
Audio
Gameplay
- Advanced Widescreen HUD
- 16:9 planetscape fixes
- Support for scrolling through menus
- Support for zooming in turret view
- Allow players to be called differently in Single Player
- Fixes in many bar scripts
- Enabled NPC paths in Multiplayer
- Include player ships in ship filter
- Make all planets spin slowly
- Set maximum level in Single Player to 40
- Show the names of zones as you enter and leave them
- Show the remaining shield and hull points of the selected target as numbers
Misc
- 1.1 Patch
- Added more sound and general options
- Added support for running multiple instances of Freelancer on the same machine
- Added updated HUD Shift plugin
- All content from Jason's Freelancer Patch v1.25
- Direct3D 9 wrapper
- Disabled IPv6 addresses in Multiplayer Server list
- Fixed friendly jumphole in mission 6
- Fixed many typos, grammar mistakes, inconsistencies, and more, in the game's text strings
- Fixed missing/small text on 1440p and 4K displays
- Fixed MP3 codec error spam
- Fixed several incorrect/missing names and infocards in EW05, EW06, ST01, ST03 and ST03b
- Freelancer manual
- Improved infocards for unknown factions
- Improved Nomad group member names
- Make energy, shield, and hull bars solid
- No longer hide The Order and the Nomads from the factions list
- No-CD Patch
- Prevent intentional frame drops from occurring
- Realigned HUD elements
- Removed cruise speed display limit
- Removed general speed display limit
- Removed ESRB notice
- Removed unknown graphics card warning
- Show "Far" in contact list only at distances of 999.999K or higher
- Single Player console
- Smoothened jump effect
- Updated zlib.dll for better performance in Multiplayer
- Windows 10 compatibility patch (dgVoodoo2)
Recommendations
For the best possible experience, it is recommended to force enable anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering for Freelancer through your GPU settings. To learn how to do this, please visit the link from your GPU manufacturer:
If you have selected the Windows 10 compatibility patch when installing this mod, you can learn how to enable native anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering here: How to enable native MSAA and Anisotropic Filtering with the Windows 10 compatibility patch
Due to the large file size of many textures used in this mod, some users may experience significantly longer load times during gameplay. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to install Freelancer: HD Edition on an (M.2) SSD.
Installation instructions
- Download FreelancerHDSetup.exe on this page or on GitHub
- Open the setup file and read the instructions on-screen carefully
Contributing
Have something to contribute to make the mod even better? Feel free to create a pull request or feature request! We are always open to new suggestions and improvements. Making the repository public has allowed us as a community to create the best possible HD mod for Freelancer out there since many modders from around the world have contributed to this project.
Credits
- BC46
- HD Character Models (Mirror)
- HD Cockpits
- HD Explosion effects
- HD Mission & News images
- HD Nebulae
- HD Nomad, Pirate, Bretonia, Blood Dragon and Utility ships
- HD Starsphere improvements and HD Starsphere for ST03b
- HD Startup Screen & Main Menu logo
- HD System Map with HD Map objects
- HUD alignment fixes
- Improved reflections
- Many general HD and effect additions
- Many misc fixes
- Many misc improvements
- Maximized Draw Distances (Mirror)
- Spinning planets
- Text Strings Revision (Mirror)
- Buck Danny
- crosire et al.
- Dege
- Freestalker.fl
- Hrimthur
- HUN0R
- Jason Hood
- Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
- Jeider, RenderG & Whiskas T-Mech
- Louva-Deus
- Microsoft
- Radiant
- Raikkonen
- Ruppetus
- Why485
Changelog
Visual
- Added alternative effects
Fixes
- Fixed size of 16:9 Freelancer logos
Misc
- Updated zlib.dll for better performance in Multiplayer
- Added support for installations via a dedicated installer
I have collected a combination of HD textures for this game the past and put them together with some nice results. You took this a lot further. Thank you. I hope this can work well with the TNG and Night Stalker mods.
does this come with the full game itself, or does one need to actually have the original base game?
You need the original game in order to play this mod.
Where is the game? Can't locate it. Do you know where l can find it?
Google "Freelancer video game".
During opening the mod with this FLMM fckin Windows 10 tells me that one file is corrupt and stopps installation
I don't experience that. Perhaps something went wrong while downloading? Try this mirror Drive.google.com
If that doesn't make a difference, create a new folder inside the mods directory where FLMM is installed. Then open the .flmod file with a file archiver like 7-Zip or WinRar and extract it to the new folder you've created.
Well it's ideal that the FLMM is not needed to install this mod
Hello,
I downloaded this mod originally and it worked fine. I was using the 16:9 aspect ratio saved my game and logged out. When I reopened the saved game the audio was bugged out so I attempted to close and reopen FL with FLMM. But the bug continued so I tried deactiving/reactivating the mod which didnt seem to fix the issue. So I ended up deleting the mod and tried to reinstall it. It starts unzipping the file but I get an error message from FLMM that says:
"Access to C:\Program Files(x86)\Freelancer Mod Manager\mods\freelancer-hd-edition-v0-4-1\DDLLS\BIN\Content.dll was denied.
After acknowledging that message a new one pops up saying from FLMM saying:
Error: Unable to extract a file from mod archive 'freelancer-hd-edition-v0-4-1' File Possibly Corrupt.
I've tried using multiple mirrors including the one linked Drive.google.com and nothing seems to stop this error from happening. I also tried just loading my save file on the vanilla FL without the mod and all my saved files are gone. Although I can locate the saved folder on my PC.
Oddly enough after I get past both these error messages the mod shows up in FLMM as active.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated so I could continue getting my hit of nostalgia.
Thanks!
Could you please join the Discord server? Discord.gg
It's much easier to offer help from there
Do not install Freelance or Mods in the 'C:\Program Files' folder,
make your own 'C:\PFiles' folder and install everything there.
This looks amazing!!! I guess this will not work with the normal multiplayer servers?
Actually it does. You can use this mod to play on any vanilla server. Zoner Universe is a pretty good one.
Hi, i have the german version, is there anything which would lead to incompatiblity or that the german text would not work with this mod?
Hi, you can install the mod just fine with the German version. However, the mod will overwrite the game's text to English. If you want to play the game with German text, download this zip and extract the content to your Freelancer folder Drive.google.com
Is the download not available anymore?
"The file you have selected (FreelancerHDSetup_v0-4-1.exe) is not available via any mirrors."
I updated the installer a few days ago and for some reason the link broke after that. For now you can download the mod here: Github.com
Working with crossfire mod too?
Nope, sorry.
mod will work correctly if installed on the Russified version of the game? or will there be problems with localization?
The mod will install and run just fine. The only issue is that the Russian text would be overwritten by English text. We've just released version 0.5 of this mod which makes that optional: Moddb.com . Just make sure you uncheck the "Apply English Text Strings Revision patch" option, and your game will remain Russian.
Thanks for the answer, and good luck, I will update =)
And thank you for your work