Star Trek Online Guide

Star Trek Online is set in the year 2409, thirty years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.
Each character is captain of their own ship and can choose between three factions:

• Federation
• Klingon
• Romulan

Immerse yourself in sci-fi third person action, tactical space combat and exploring the galaxy in a beautifully rendered world of Star Trek.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Star Trek Online in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Downloaded version of Star Trek Online. Steam and Arc versions may require additional steps.

Note: March 2017 Perfect World Entertainment ended support for Windows XP and Direct X 9. This guide no longer applies until we can pursue more testing in Wine.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.8
Wine: 1.7.43

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.43
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.7.43 is installed and you can close this window

Download Star Trek Online Client

Go To: http://download.perfectworld.com/sto/star_trek_setup.exe
Save the star_trek_setup.exe in a folder on your desktop

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "Install a non-listed program"

Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

Name your virtual drive: startrekonline
Click Next

Check all three:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select Wine 1.7.43
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1920x1080 (or enter the resolution of your Linux desktop)
Click OK

Installing Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Star Trek Online

Click Browse

Select the star_trek_setup.exe from your desktop folder
Click Open

Click Next again

Click OK

Click Next

Click "I Agree"

Click Next

Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Click Install

Uncheck "Launch Star Trek Online"
Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Star Trek Online.exe
Click Next

Click Next again

Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Star Trek Online"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine Version: 1.7.43

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine, click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses

Close Configure

Launching Star Trek Online

Select Star Trek Online
Click Run

Launcher Update

Log in with your account credentials (or register)

Star Trek Online Launcher will download and patch the entire game: 9 Gigabytes

Click Engage

Cryptic Loading Screen
When you launch Star Trek Online the first time, you will have to wait about 15-20 minutes
After that it launches fairly quick

Login Again
Sometimes the login will fail and you have to login again

Optimization

Click Options

Display Tab
Adjust windowed or fullscreen
Adjust refresh rate and antialiasing

Graphics Tab
Use Render Quality and Graphics Detail sliders to adjust graphics
Or manually set:

• Screen
• Detail
• Effects
• Lights

Advanced Tab
More settings to increase/decrease performance

Rule of Thumb
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Star Trek Online ran really well on my Geforce 550 Ti. I rarely had any issues with loading, controls or diplay settings. The game actually pre-set everything to High and the game is beautiful.
Every once in a while the mouse would not turn your character/ship completely around, but a quick right-click fixes it.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

I had a feeling it is one of the best, funny because its a free-to-play
Consumers can't go wrong with this one

 

That's because people like me made it great. I helped beta test the crap out of it back in January 2010. We kept the devs on their toes fixing it when we broke it! Back then we were constantly overloading the sever and causing the entire game to crash! The devs wanted to do a lot of load testing so they were happy when we broke it. this helped make one of the best launches in the history of computer gaming. We even beat WoW's launch scores! Later I had fun on the Test server when they let me test the Romulan faction several weeks before it went live.

 

Wow that is great!
Did you ever get a chance to ask about Linux ports?

 

Asked about Linux ports for years but no good news yet. at lest sometimes the devs respond to them.

 

Since most of their games run great in Wine, that isn't so motivating for them to port games to Linux.
Also free-to-play isn't all that motivating because there is no proof of revenue for the extra OS support.
I totally understand.
Where are they developing these games from Perfect Entertainment?

 

This game is created by Cryptic studios, it dose have a huge subscriber base because you can get lots of goodies for 3 yrs. I originally was a subscriber but I got all the goodies.. I switched to free since I didn't feel a need to keep a subscription. I still buy things occasionally so they still make money from me, just not every month. Perfect World Entertainment supports them. Everything has to go thorough Paramount Studios since they control the Star trek franchise. They have the best free2play/subscription MORPG ever made for its genere.

FYI: NASA's New Horizons probe will fly I think within 3 thousand miles of Pluto's surface next month! on the 14th. Took about 8 and a half years to get there. It uses an Ion drive for its cruise rocket. I can't wait to see its atmosphere. Sure its cold but not so cold that the atmosphere freezes all the time. It's surface is probably rocky and covered in a shell of ice. Like many asteroids and comets.

 

All of Perfect World Entertainment games seem to be the best Free-To-Play MMO's
High quality graphics, lots of configuration and fun to play.
I still have to try Swordsman again. I would love to play it as well.

 

They came up with the best free2play/subscriber/goody store plan. Enables them to provide great gaming without making people pay for anything unless they want to, but still providing lots of stuff for the no payers. They even have a tool for making your own missions! If you make a good mission and other players rate it high enough then you might win a cool prize like a free ship or clothes or weapon or anything in the game.They recently added a higher rank cap. No you can become Admiral of Starfleet level 70!

 

Same with Neverwinter, I have play a few fan-made missions and they are pretty fun.
I haven't played a lot of Star Trek, and probably won't, but I still enjoy the Lore

 

All PWE and Cryptic Studio games use the same stuff so they all use the same style of free2play/subscriber/goody store mission creator. Also you can buy credits called ZEN and then use them for any of the games!

 

This game stopped working. I tried switching to wine 1.7.48 but it's still broken. I am going to try winestaging 1.7.48.

 

It works again. I had to wait a few minutes for it to start after clicking engage. 'Jolen Tru' Now I can play my sub commander of the RR again!

 

I found that any time Star Trek Online or Neverwinter patch up, you will have to wait from 10-15 minutes to launch the game.
I'm also testing Champions Online and it runs identical to these games. Same company, same engine.

 

Hi, Neverwinter MMO guide says "Note: March 2017 Perfect World Entertainment ended support for Windows XP and Direct X 9. This guide no longer applies until we can pursue more testing in Wine."
Since this game uses the same engine I wonder if it still runs?

 

I have a feeling Perfect World has ended XP support for all games. I haven't tested StarTrek or Neverwinter in a while, so there might be a work-around.

 

I have a feeling Perfect World has ended XP support for all games. I haven't tested StarTrek or Neverwinter in a while, so there might be a work-around.

Yes, using POL I installed IE8, set Wine to 1.7.2 and installed the DX11 component, the launcher runs and is downloading

I'll get back to you if it runs.

 

so how did it go?

 

I just moved to Utah. I am going to buy a new computer eventually. When I do windows gets the final boot! It will be me and tux from then on! Micro spy off Windows 10, was the final nail in the coffen as far as I care. I hope they get an earfull of one of Linus's famous rants! Like when he gave NVIDIA the finger!

 

Cool, definitely get an Nividia GeForce 1060 or better. They run GREAT in Linux!
Keep in touch and don't be a stranger.

 

POL now has a STO install script. I just tried it yesterday and it works really well.