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.



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.

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Mint 16 32-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.2
Wine: 1.6.2

Installing Wine

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


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


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window


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: startrekvoyager
No spaces
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine: 1.6.2
Click Next


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


Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop Size: 1024x768

Click OK


Installing Libraries (Windows Components/Packages)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


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


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


Click Next


Click Install


Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Yes

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Installing


Desktop Shortcut?
Click No

Register?
Click No

Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select stvoy.exe
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


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


Display Tab
GLSL: disabled
Direct Draw Renderer: opengl
Video memory size: Select the amount of Memory your video card has
Offscreen rendering mode: fbo


Close Configure

Launching Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Star Trek Voyager
Click Run


Initial Configure
Click Accept


Click Configure


Click Video


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"


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


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


Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"


Navigate to your Desktop
Select "eliteforcepatch1_2.exe"
Click Open


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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