Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Guide

Star Trek Voyager is a first person sci-fi shooter based after the TV show. All of the main cast is there including their real voices as well.

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The plot takes place in several amazing alien ships including the Borg. Your character will have access to all the standard Trekkie weapons and the famous Holodeck.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the retail version of Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 16 32-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.2
Wine: 1.6.2

Installing Wine

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next

Downloading Wine
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Extracting

Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window


PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: startrekvoyager
No spaces
Click Next
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Check all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries

Click Next
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Select Wine: 1.6.2
Click Next
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Note: If you are running a 64-bit system, PlayOnLinux will prompt if you want to use a 64-bit or 32-bit virtual drive.
Always select 32-bit virtual drive

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop Size: 1024x768

Click OK
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Installing Libraries (Windows Components/Packages)

Check the following:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next
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Installing Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

If you have the CD-ROM inserted, always select "Select another file"
For some reason Autorun seems to have problems with most games.

Click Browse
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Navigate to your CD-ROM
Select: Setup.exe
Click Open
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Click Next
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Click Install
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Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Yes

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Installing
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Desktop Shortcut?
Click No

Register?
Click No

Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select stvoy.exe
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine Version: 1.6.2

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine

Click the arrow to select other versions of Wine
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Display Tab
GLSL: disabled
Direct Draw Renderer: opengl
Video memory size: Select the amount of Memory your video card has
Offscreen rendering mode: fbo
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Close Configure

Launching Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Star Trek Voyager
Click Run
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Initial Configure
Click Accept
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Click Configure
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Click Video
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Use presets to configure video
Adjust textures and detail

Note: Most laptops should handle all settings on high. Resolution of Linux Desktop need to match in-game resolution to see fullscreen.

Click "Apply Changes"
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Patching Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

Download the 1.2 patch from: http://www.gamefront.com/files/files/606344/eliteforcepatch1_2.exe
Save to your desktop

Access denied error
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To a avoid this error follow these steps

Navigate to /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/startrekvoyager/drive_c/Program Files/Raven/Star Trek Voyager Elite Force

Note: Use your login in place of "username"

Right-click stvoyHM.exe & stvoy.exe
Select "Read and write" for all
Click Close
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Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
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Navigate to your Desktop
Select "eliteforcepatch1_2.exe"
Click Open
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Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Copying...

Click Finish

Conclusion:
I tested with many Wine versions and newer versions but continued to get random frame lags. I recommend using Wine 1.6.2, but you may get better results with Wine 1.3.8 or expieriementing with other ones. Also, I found that Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force does not support modern widescreen resolutions. So you will have to select the recommended resolutions and make sure to set your Linux desktop resolution before launching.
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force is extremely fun and engaging! Its amazing how fun it is even though its 14 years old.

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