Star Trek Away Team

[Krael]

Hi,

I've got Star Trek Away Team, but it freezes after about 5 minutes.
I've tried running it in emulation, but that doesn't work at all.
Does anyone know how too run it?

This some information of PC:
Windows XP SP2
Pentium 4, 3.2 GHZ processor
1 GB memory
Nvidia 6800

Thanks in advance.

 

[F-Bobby]

well its definalty not your computer struggling to run the game thats for sure.

I Assume you have tried to reinstall the game? If not I would start there. Then also what is it doing when it freezes, does it freeze at the same point, or is it just 5 minutes no matter what?

 

[Syf]

I would suggest a few things to do.

Firstly, remember that ST:AT was released in 2001. So it was built on WinNT4/Win98.

First: Are you running DirectX 10? If so, that's 99% of your problem. That game was built around DX7. If you still have DX9.0c, then you may be able to get it running. Basically, DX8 is fully compatible with DX7. DX9 is so so compatible. But you have to "slow down" your system, and then still may have problems running it. DX 10, loses all DX7 and DX8 support in trade for the newer stuff it's designed to run.

Now, If your running DX10, forget running that game, and even Armada.

If you have DX9 still, go into your graphics control panel, and slow down the video card to a AGP 1X setting (if possible). Also, lower your sound card settings to slowest (no acceleration on either). And finally, if your system runs any "Enhancement" programs for sound or video, close those apps. And finally, if it's still freezing, remove the install, go through all these "slow down" steps again, then disable your Anti-virus and any anti-spam software, then reinstall it.

With any luck, you should be able to run the game. If not, find you a cheap secondary PC that runs a 1.2ghz with Win98se, 512mb ram, 128mb Ge-force video, with DX7 or DX8 already on it (I pick those up for about $50 - $150). I usually have to "upgrade them" to the specs I suggested for another $30 - $50. These may be old, but are perfect for those games you still want to play that MS has begun to force us to abandon

 

[Krael]

Thanks, it works now.
I turned of AGP complety and I turned the sound accelerator to a minimum.

 

[Jeddy]

if its working now thats cool but part of the problems may have been your graphics card. althoguh if teh freezing wasnt followed by a blue screen or reay bad performace i guess it might not have been i know my old 6800 used to freeze all the time, this was a driver issue and i ended up fixing it by upgrading, although i think it was SJ who offered some advice to my problem (in the thread in teh section)