star trek amada (thefirst)

posted on August 27th, 2009, 2:23 pm

I installed the game yesterday but im getting the same problems i had when i used vista, i get messed up graphics and the game is completely unplayable. (wanted to play alliances mod)

My specs are

core2duo 1.66Ghz
1gb ram
250gb hd
Nvidia 8600m GS 512mb
windows XP pro sp3

I can play it fine in my virtual machine with XP but its slow because it has limited resources.

sorry if this is the wrong section but i just guessed which would suit it most in my opinion.

posted on August 27th, 2009, 2:29 pm

Does it work properly in XP?

posted on August 27th, 2009, 2:34 pm

Does it work properly in XP?

it runs on my old desktop which has xp and as i said it runs on windows xp in my virtual pc.

posted on August 27th, 2009, 3:13 pm

actually i had massive problems playing armada 1 under xp (distorted graphics and sound) but for some reason it runs surprisingly well under vista x64.

posted on August 27th, 2009, 5:42 pm

i had same problems in xp... messed sounds and game runs extremely slow

sound were ok when i turn off sound acceleration in xp but it not solve that extremely slow speed

posted on August 28th, 2009, 12:21 am

I've been playing that alliances mod recently, but armada 1 on xp does suck. my game crashes halfway through playing. I'm hoping this fleet operations mod will be fun though, haven't tried it yet. good luck!

posted on August 28th, 2009, 1:58 pm

[font=Verdana]Turn both your video and sound quality/hardware acceleration down 3/4 of the way down.  This has cured the uber lag and glitchy sound for me in the past. And, yes, Fleet Ops is well worth the download.  [/font]

posted on August 28th, 2009, 7:31 pm

[font=Verdana]Turn both your video and sound quality/hardware acceleration down 3/4 of the way down.  This has cured the uber lag and glitchy sound for me in the past. And, yes, Fleet Ops is well worth the download.   [/font]

oh i never try to lower video acceleration down... only sound 
thanks i'll try that as soon as i reinstall Ubuntu Grub bootloader 

posted on August 28th, 2009, 9:02 pm

iv already changed all the settings i can in the nvidia control panel, it has done nothing,i dont have a problem with sound or lag only the graphics are totally messed.

posted on September 28th, 2009, 8:20 pm

actually i had massive problems playing armada 1 under xp (distorted graphics and sound) but for some reason it runs surprisingly well under vista x64.

Realy!!!? It does? I have Vista Win x64 but I cant seem to get it to work. What do I do? I rescently got a new computer and am very new to vista. I love a1 and would realy like to play it.

posted on September 28th, 2009, 11:57 pm

i had this too.. i decreased the videocard refresh rate and it works.

posted on September 29th, 2009, 12:31 am

I run Armada 1 on XP Pro without any problems. I don't know why it works on some comps with XP and not others, but it may be the video card rather than the OS in some cases.

posted on September 29th, 2009, 1:27 am

try playing in armada safemode as thats the only way to get it working on win 7

posted on September 30th, 2009, 1:23 am

This probably won't help most people, but i was having trouble with Armada 1 as well, and was about to give up on the game, but then i realised i hadn't downloaded the Patch... I got the patch 1.2 on my comp, and all the graphics and sound problems i was having went away!

So hopefully that's all that's needed for some of you, as well.

[DarthThanatos]

posted on September 30th, 2009, 8:42 am

Last edited by DarthThanatos on September 30th, 2009, 7:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I didn't even bother to test STA1 without applying the 1.2 patch.

Once applied, the game runs smoothly, the graphics and textures are fine, but I still have audio problems. The voices and effects are cut, a phrase may start at the middle, end at the middle, or not be heard at all, even if you know "it should be there". I tried lowering the sound channels from 8 to 2, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. And the other controls in the audio settings seem to me that canot have an impact on the audio behavior, besides disabling voices altogether, that is.

EDIT: Update. I've been playing the single player campaigns. The whole Fed campaign goes nice, but I can't get past the second mission of the Klingon campaign. When the game needs to add a wormhole to the map, or make it appear, or whatever, the game freezes.