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
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.
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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
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
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:
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It is less than a minute after the STO splash screen appears until the toon selection/creation screen appears. The cryptic splash screen takes a moment before it finishes and shows the STO splash screen. Of course I'm am using an SSD, so that probably helps. I Am running Kubuntu 17.10. got a used desktop that is around 3 - 4 y/o. That old notebook turns 10 this month. Time to donate it to church or an elementary school. Forget gaming on it, unless the games are from 2010 or earlier. Even then, Direct x 9.0 c or earlier or OpenGL 2.0. Now I have OpenGL 4.5.0 and NVIDIA 384.90, running or a GTX 580 and STO runs almost flawlessly. WoW runs good, but has troubles launching, probably the battle.net launcher being buggy. EVE On line runs well. Transport Fever (Steam for Linux) runs great with about 60 FPS according to Steam for Linux FPS tracker.