star trek fleet ops with vista.. how i managed to get it all

posted on September 7th, 2008, 10:09 am

hello... if i am breaking any rules please forgive me i have uploaded my copy of star trek Fleet operations to my website and am happy to host it with fleet ops admins permissions...
since some people dont have the time or know how to use virtual machines.. i had installed FO to there and copied it over to vista so i could play the game.. and i got it working NO ERRORS... this is how i did it

1. install star trek armada II (if done skip to next step)
2. install fleet operations (If tried before remove and install again)
3. Once you start to decompress the audio during installation you get the error about the borg.wav not wanting to go in or something.. thats fine.. go to your task manager... and end the process for the audio decompression (Youll notice the name because itll be taking up alot of memory) this will them prompt the fleet operations setup to complete
4. download the file below (Its about 200mb compressed..) its basically my fleet operations folder
5. unrar the file..
6. go into c:program filesactivisionstartrek armada II
and delete the star trek operations folder.. (LEAVE the armada II folder) drop the fleet operations folder into the location above (basically where you delete the previous version of fleet ops...
7. open the folder and rightmouse click the .exe and run in administator mode.. and it will run the game for you...

I decided to upload this because the update.zip had not worked for me.. so i decided i would share how i did it.. i love the fleet operations and would like to thank its creators...

I host the file myself and its not done on any sites like megaupload or rapidshare.. so you can download directly... (i have unlimited bandwith on this site)

Many thanks and I hope you enjoy the game as much as i do
Paul



<<<<Link below to the compressed version of Fleet Operations.. current as of 5th September 2008)

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http://www.randommiscstuff.info/Star%20Trek%20Armada%20II%20Fleet%20Operations.rar  *

posted on September 9th, 2008, 4:41 am

Awesome work Paul

It works just as described.  I started out by finding an old copy of armada II and attempting to install with no success.  This led me to fleet ops and the problems you described.  Found your post and BAM! success.  thanks man! 

posted on September 10th, 2008, 12:15 pm

Awesome work Paul

It works just as described.  I started out by finding an old copy of armada II and attempting to install with no success.  This led me to fleet ops and the problems you described.  Found your post and BAM! success.  thanks man! 

your welcome.. always happy to try and help love fleet ops me and a mate LAN it every sunda as our current game

posted on September 10th, 2008, 9:45 pm

Good Job.
If Jan is around (YoooooHooooooo)... this probably should be stickied and put under fixes 

posted on September 12th, 2008, 4:10 am

worked great!  thanks!

posted on September 13th, 2008, 9:40 am

worked great!  thanks!

your welcome

posted on September 17th, 2008, 10:46 am

theres alot of people taking this up (checked my web stats today)

posted on October 4th, 2008, 7:38 am

Wow, thanks so much, I just got a new comp and seems they all have Vista on them now...This has helped immensly, thanks for all the help. 

posted on November 8th, 2008, 1:51 pm

It works again! Everything!
Thank you so much for sharing!