Star Trek Armada II
Hi Everyone,
Posted a couple of days ago about Star Trek Armada 2, and someone recommended GOG, which was great. So as any good Trekkie, I bought it so I can replay one of my favorite games. However, I kept running into issues trying to play it. The game would try to start and immediately crash. Since it's a 2002 game, it doesn't play nice with modern hardware. I tried everything: compatibility mode for Windows XP, windowed mode through GOG's DirectX settings, the fan-made Patch Project 1.2.5, and even a DirectX wrapper called dxwrapper. Nothing worked. I kept getting access violation errors and Direct3D crashes. What finally got it working was installing dgVoodoo2, which translates the old DirectX 8 graphics calls into something modern GPUs can actually handle. Even after that, I had to tweak the resolution settings outside the game since the in-game graphics menu is broken and freezes if you click it. It took hours of troubleshooting but the game finally runs.
Has anyone run into similar issues, and if so how did you fix it?