Star Trek: Armada

posted on April 8th, 2010, 6:38 pm

Hey guys, a few days ago I installed Armada 1 on my new PC and when I launched it the loading screen was mostly white and the graphics looked like they were getting ripped off the Ship hulls. Can anyone help?
I have a NVIDIA GEFORCE 9400 GT as a video card.

posted on April 8th, 2010, 6:51 pm

Is that a new high quality card?  If it is it may have problems with older games, and lesser graphics.

[RogueKnight24]

posted on April 8th, 2010, 7:10 pm

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I think it is. It's one of the 3 latest from NVIDIA I think.

Btw, nice Insignia Pic Zaxxon.

Also, my dad said that we should try running the game on an ATI HD4650. Any tips?

posted on April 8th, 2010, 7:12 pm

lol i have same problem i have NVIDIA GEFORCE 9200M GS  

posted on April 8th, 2010, 7:19 pm

lol, yeah, I have a laptop with NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G, and it said that it would specifically have a hard time with older graphics. Its not as good as y'alls, but it is on a laptop   I would assume that is your problem, and compatibility mode does nothing for me, so I would assume the same for you.

Btw, nice Insignia Pic Zaxxon.

lol thx mate


As for the ATI, if its a lower end graphics card, I would say it might work better, but I can't say for sure

posted on April 8th, 2010, 8:11 pm

it mite sound silly but i found with my geforce 8400,to go into graphics card actual progrma via display settings and tweak so that it runs as the game requires its helped with alot of older games that i play,incl command and conquer to name just 1,as its was workin too good for the games to run effectively hence maps wud dissapears and lines appear for no reason,would suggest givin that a try

posted on April 8th, 2010, 8:12 pm

Hmm, thats interesting, I will have to look into that, thanks steve

posted on April 8th, 2010, 10:20 pm

i have ATI HD4850 and i have problems on win7 but on winXP it works fine

posted on April 8th, 2010, 10:23 pm

how you figure that mort? i had win xp and the sound never worked

vista actually ran the sound better than xp lol

maybe its different for every1

posted on April 8th, 2010, 10:39 pm

however it wasn't the sound he said was the problem   it was the graphics.

posted on April 8th, 2010, 10:41 pm

the graphics didn't work right either, just it was the sound that made it nearly unplayable.

posted on April 8th, 2010, 10:46 pm

yh my graphics card is for a laptop but i cnt figure out wot settings to use on my graphics card to rum a1 correctly

posted on April 8th, 2010, 10:47 pm

i set sound acceleration (in xp) to basic.... that solved sound problem but in win7 its either crash or messed up graphic

posted on April 8th, 2010, 10:50 pm

yeah, thats how mine is with most old games.  the ones that work, work perfectly, but I have no idea why, and the same goes for the ones that don't work at all.

posted on April 9th, 2010, 9:04 am

Crap, I bought a highly advanced video card for nothing 
I'll just have to try the ATI then :/