Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

First of all, the map pack has to wait a bit due we are working on Beta 2, so it has to wait (i am thinking of releasing it along with beta 2).
Due i want to ensure maximum compatibility with every system i have made a test setup to check some of the compression features i have talked in the forums about.

This is no update for Fleet Operations. It is a program to test features appearing in beta 2 setup and have nothing to do with the gameplay itself

When no problems occour the methods used in the new setup making the installer file of beta 2 around 10% smaller. (estimated size is 100mb).

Download the Test File (2.46mb) (http://fleetops.greentworld.com/downloads/FleetOpsFeaTest1.exe)

Pls comment to this post if it has worked or not worked for you.

DOCa Cola

I use Windows XP Home and the test worked perfectly. Both the sound test with Picards voice and the 3 immages of the klingon ship were fine. Though Picards voice was slightly static-e but I don't think that was a problem, but a slightly off sound bite.  

Win Xp Home, perfectly fine.

win xp home works fine keep up the good work

WinMe ... an error appeared while clicking on CLOSE at the end of the test ... i dont know if this is from the installer ...

ah, i see, i forgot an command. that's something appering only on win9x os, but as long as the sound and the image test were succesful, all i ok
thx!

DOCa Cola

ok...

humm iam not sure if this happend with anyone else, but i didnt here picard, i saw all 3 pictures, just didnt here his voice, ill try it again later, i think it might be becuse i had winamp open in the backround, it was paused iam not that stupid ;-) hope it helps, oh yeah i have windows 98 if that helps
 

heh it was cus i had win amp open ;-) it works fine keep up the good work

Worked perfectly here as well, system in sig  B)

BlackMaster

Works Fine for me, I have win98.

Win XP Pro, Service Pack one

Sound was fine

The picture series was dark, although I suppose that is how they should be.  :)  Ok, the first picture had the Klingon ship on the far left of the window, with the nacelle touching the border.  However, to the right there was a pretty sizable black area before the window border and I don't know if this is due to any corruption or alike (it could be some bad window code, I dunno!).  The second image had the left nacelle and the nose touching the left window boarder and the right window boarder (respectively).  The third image was the same.  Note, by touching I could be meaning that the ship was so close that it looked like it was touching, because on the larger images I noticed that there was a small black area before the ship part and the border, but I decided to disregard that.  The first image was not the same, black area wise, as the latter two.

Also, this might be unimportant, but the install system did not like long filenames all that much (at least displaying) and displayed boxes at some points... copying below...

Preparing Test Files...
Output folder: C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp
Extract: a.bmp
Extract: picard.mp3
Extract: picard.mp3.sfap0
Extract: picard.mp3.sfap0.sfk
Extract: ver.bat
Extract: vupta.png
Output folder: C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Testing Sound Decoding...
Extract: lame.exe
Extract: lame_enc.dll
Output folder: C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp
input:  C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\picard.mp3     (box)
   (22.05 kHz, 1 channel, MPEG-2 Layer III)                                        (box and NO initial space)
output: C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\picard.wav
   (16 bit, Microsoft WAVE)                                                                  (box and NO initial space)
skipping initial 1105 samples (encoder+decoder delay)
Testing Image converting...
Create folder: C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp6
Create folder: C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp8
Create folder: C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp
Extract: convert.exe
vupta.png PNG 256x256+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 34.5kb 0.020u 0:01
vupta.png PNG 256x256=]64x64+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 0.010u 0:01
vupta.png=]C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\vupta.bmp BMP 256x256=]64x64+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 12.0kb 0.020u 0:01
C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\convert.exe: UnableToGetRegistryKey (magic.mgk).
vupta.png PNG 256x256+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 34.5kb 0.010u 0:01
vupta.png PNG 256x256=]128x128+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 0.020u 0:01
vupta.png=]C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp8\vupta.bmp BMP 256x256=]128x128+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 48.0kb 0.030u 0:01
C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\convert.exe: UnableToGetRegistryKey (magic.mgk).
C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\vupta.png PNG 256x256+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 34.5kb 0.010u 0:01
C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\vupta.png=]C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp6\vupta.bmp BMP 256x256+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 192.0kb 0.010u 0:01
C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\convert.exe: UnableToGetRegistryKey (delegates.mgk).
C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\convert.exe: UnableToGetRegistryKey (magic.mgk).
Extract: i_view32.exe
Execute: \"C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\i_view32.exe\" \"C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\vupta.bmp\" /hide=7 /pos=(100,100)
Execute: \"C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\i_view32.exe\" \"C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp8\vupta.bmp\" /hide=7 /pos=(100,100)
Execute: \"C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp\i_view32.exe\" \"C:\DOCUME~1\CRAIGR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nst10.tmp6\vupta.bmp\" /hide=7 /pos=(100,100)
Test completed

note, above, if there is something on the right hand side in parenthesis that starts with the word box, that is me typing.  For some reason the boxes did not copy and also for some reason a lot of space was inserted on two lines at least when I copied it in (post preview doesn't show it).  I think we have a few characters (tab, enter, who knows?) that isn't supported in the installer and is somewhat supported here.  Now, if you weren't being specific about some things such as text display and directory display when talking about testing this file, then ignore my little bit.

Anyways, that was my experience.  Take with a grain of salt though, because my XP install is interesting, to say the least (I need to reformat and fix this darn thing someday...  :D)

thx for your reports!

@goldentiger
Unfortunatly there is no other way to use the 8.3 filename system for the sound decoder and the image converter, the boxes in the logs are normal and i cannot change that. Thx for the report!

DOCa Cola

Hey Win xp home worked fine here!