I'd love to buy the Star Trek bundle thats on sale at the moment, but with Win 10 I'm guessing SFC just isn't worth buying. Playing it in software mode is not a solution...

The community will always try to think of something. Maybe GoG will surpass them. Almost immediately after you posted, some other player proposed a fix that would enable running in hardware mode. http://www.gog.com/forum/star_trek_starfleet_command/potential_win_10_fix


Also, if it gets fixed by GoG, you'll still have the game you bought for a cheaper price with an updated installer in your catalogue. You won't have to pay extra. I think that if you have the money, now's your chance to get the game (or await the next sale, GoG does them very frequently).

I am getting a little tired of GOG selling these old games while still broken. I know they`re cheap as chips, but I always thought GOG had good programmers who fixed the game so they'll work on modern machines. This is the 3rd old game i`ve bought that will now sit in dust because it crashes every 5 minutes...

Yeah, the reason I mentioned it is because GOG should really be fixing their games, especially if they're listed to work with certain OS'. The community shouldn't have to find fixes.

Welcome to the 2010s, when community fixes are more substantial and thorough than any official ones because official rightsholders (mostly) don't give a monkey's.

I still can't get the game to run. Every time I try to launch the game it says "StarFleet Command has encountered a problem and needs to close." I can't run the config.exe file either since it also returns a similar error message. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Run it as admin.

Run it in Windows Vista SP2 compatibility mode.

Open sfc.ini and set the value async to 0.

I tried all of that, but all it gives me is a black screen with music in the background. Is there anything else that can be done?

Check if the [3D] section in your sfc.ini looks like this:


[3D]
wireframe=0
windowed=0
zbuffer=1
lowres=3
driver=0
backdrop=1

I think they do what they can, but are limited because they lack access to the source code.

Well it does work in Win 10 for me when setting async to 0 in the sfc.ini as Plokite_Wolf mentions.

With Windows 10, it should in theory be possible to run ANY software that was designed for any windows OS, and indeed a good portion of Mac Linux OS too. This based on my two semesters of studying Win 7 Client and Server, where I believe the same could be said.

I'm not saying that I've "done it" (though I have managed to get SFC 1 to work with very little issue in Windows 7). There are innumerable ways it might be done. One of the things I've noticed about Windows OS is that there are an almost excess of redundant systems and many ways to "skin a cat" as they say.

The one thing that isn't immediately obvious if you have no training in Windows configuration: effectively ALL the previous Operating Systems are "in there" for any Windows OS after about Win 2000. Microsoft understands that users interest in and ability with configuring machines ranges from Master of OS to "I just want to turn it on and use it." so they have not made the controls to explore use all this functionality obvious. But it is possible to run virtually any Windows OS through most modern Windows OS . . . or so I am led to believe by my textbooks and instructors. This is not something I'm an expert in, indeed I have very little experience doing it. There are probably important caveats to the principle, but it is my understanding that the principle is true: Win 10, Win 8, Win 7 should in theory be able to run software from _ANY_ previous version of Windows OS.

My suggestions for getting it to run:

1. Make sure the account on which you are logged into your machine is an Administrator account.

2. Right-click the file/icon that represents the executable for the game and select properties (might also work fine with the shortcut)

a. Explore settings like "run in emulator mode" or run in "Win XP." There are several different ways to do this, so my apologies for not providing exact terminology and steps. Google can be helpful here.

c. In Windows 7, one of the options that opens when you right-click is "Troubleshoot Compatibility" -> this was all I used to get the game to run (when I say 'run' I don't mean run flawlessly, it does occasionally glitch and crash. But it is playable and as long as I keep saves [and a copy file for 'archived' saves] not a big problem).

3. In the event nothing else works, and if you are feeling intrepid, it should be possible to set up a "virtual machine" that runs in Win XP on your rig, and to run the game from that VM. I have less experience with this, than any thing else I refer to here, but in theory that should also work.

ADDIT: point of note: my copy of SFC1 is actually running through "Compatibility mode (based on the properties in the desktop shortcut) and is running in "Windows Vista SP2" (SP2 = Service Pack 2). As Plokit says: run as admin, run in Windows Vista SP2 compatibility mode. That is exactly what I did. I don't think I resent the async, but perhaps my specific GPU / drivers don't need that setting changed.

Just a side note: I have a Asus laptop. GTX 1070 GPU. Windows 10.Initially when I would launch the game it would just throw an error and close. The fix was to run it in compatibility mode (Windows Vista SP2).

Ok so the game is dead broken and doesnt work anymore. Dont understand why the keep selling games like this. They should atleast have warning,

Well, they do. On the store front for the game, it says "Works on: Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8".

So compatibility is not guaranteed on later versions of Windows.