Ok firstly, loved this game in the day. Interested to run it. Are there any obvious tips or tricks that a newbie runner to the game should know?

Several of the skips require precise jump or grap inputs. It will take some time to get consistent at some of them but nowadays there is nothing too bad.

Now, I personally use free scrolling mouse wheel for jump, but no one who came after me does since the route where that was needed in Naval Base has been obsoleted. The Fort Jay skip (or both of them) are helped by mouse wheel for jump but runners after me have another setup for that which seems to be trivial to get or at least does not require the spammed grap input. I have no personal experience with normal jump, but from what I have heard the Fire Station skip is harder with mouse wheel, not to mention the janky controls throughout the whole game.

To a large part the run is just optimized movement; GoldenEye is perhaps good experience there :P

There is actually another new route in Naval Base. It's kind of insane and is not documented anywhere (it's not the yolo molotov throw that is also not documented and no one has done in a run).

If you actually start running I will catch your stream at some point and tell you about that or anything else you need.

Wicked thanks for the info. Also where could I grab a copy of the game? no where seems to sell it unless i pay 20 quid on amazon or use an emulator?

Yeah, there is no Steam or GOG release, though it is highly requested on the community wishlist there. The problem is, the physical copy, like many old PC games, has some ancient DRM scheme that outright will not work on Windows 10. Meaning there is not even a work-around, you cannot install it from the CD.

Not sure if it's against the speedrun.com terms of service to condone piracy but I'm just stating the fact that it is physically impossible to get the game to run without a no-cd crack. A Windows 7 machine should work with the physical copy though, if that is possible for you.

Hey, i managed to get hold of a copy but i' m having a dreadful time with the control, more specifically jumping. I read the previous post on FPS issues cause lack of responsiveness of certain player actions, so i capped the game on 60 through Nivida inspector and enabled vsync but I still cannot jump on cue. Very frustrating due to the police station skip at the very start and jumping is a quicker form of movement.

I think Nvidia Inspector might not work properly for Freedom Fighters, but EnableVSync in freedom.ini should work.

Change DisableVSync to EnableVSync basically.

I have found a method that just involves downloading Rivatuner statistics server. You can just cap the FPS to 60. I tried using the DisableVSync -> EnableVSync method but my FPS was still in the 500 - 600's. But can confirm the other method works too! Must depend on system specs.