Star trek Armada 1 geforce 9 issue

Post by **Dr_Breen** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:00 pm

on the armada part of this site (armadafleetcommand.com/afc) there's already a few topics about this but no solution so i thought why not ask here for once as well.

Does anyone still play this awesome game? anyone with a geforce 9? it seems armada 1 does not like directX9 / 10. is there any way to play it anyway? unfortunatly i have no onboard graphics and it looks like virtualbox and vmware cant handle directx 7 (they can handle directx9 tough)

i just found the game files when cleaning my HD and tried to start it, with 50% success, menu and stuff is fine, but the actual game is a mess.

Post by **Buzzlightbeer** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 1:55 am

I have the same problem, the game looks like boxes and the sound is messed up to.

XP home 32 bit
nvidia geforce 8300 gs

Post by **Dr_Breen** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:36 am

the sound can be fixed easily

You need to turn down your sound card acceleration

Go to: Control panel ---> sound and audio device properties ---> click audio tab at the top ---> advanced ---> performance.

Even with a fast PC this still needs to be turned down almost all the way. Just set it lower until problem goes away. Doesn't seem to effect game play at all but it will fix the garbled and fast forward problem.

still waiting for an input about the graphical thing

Post by **KrazeeXXL** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:37 am

Dr_Breen, have you tried Microsoft Virtual PC as yet?

I read somewhere that it should work better with older OS' (98SE) using directX7/8.

VMWare instead shall work better with new OS' like XP and direct X 9.

Post by **Dr_Breen** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:05 am

just tried VPC. the game starts, but highest resolution is 640x480. According to Microsoft VPC does not support directx at all. and the mouse is not working ingame unfortunatly. so no chane using that either.

i read somewhere that it is possible to pack directx orders into OpenGL orders. does anyone have an idea how that works?

Post by **KrazeeXXL** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:22 pm

hm I should've checked personally. Indeed MVPC emulates an S3 Trio card.

what about alternate graphics card drivers like omega or DNA?

Post by **Dr_Breen** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:41 pm

just got Omega. Unfortunatly theres no omega driver for the GF 9 series. there are plenty for geforce 8 (up to 8800 Ultra) which might be a solution for Buzzlightbeer. i tried to force my Graphics card to use the 8800 Ultra driver but it says that this drivers is not made for win 7 64 bit.

i will check the DNA drivers now

Edit:

DNA drivers install fine. but they have no effect. in fact it seems to me the game looks even worse.

got any other suggestions?