Star Trek™: Starfleet Command Gold Edition

Windows 10, NVIDIA GTX 970. Hardware display crashes constantly, have to run it using Software rendering. I think there is a known issue with the campaigns on these digital copies. I think the anti-piracy implimentation is being triggered. After starting the Federation Task Force campaign I am being sent on an alternate campaign of "Fed_Special2" and "Fed_Special3". Fed_Special3 is an escort mission. Your objective is to capture what seems to be a mirror universe Organian Q-like being, in a "mandoss system" apparatus. The mission seems more like a Doom inspired easter egg. Only it seems to be unwinnable, and appears to be intended to infuriate the player intentionally.

Star Trek: Starfleet Command (SFC) (not to be confused with a more recent Star Trek Fleet Command licensed Star Trek MMO) is a single player PC adaptation of the long-running "Starfleet Battles" tabletop boardgame serving as the battle engine, with a strategic "shell" written around it that serves as the setting for the various campaigns, as well as randomly generated missions that became known as the "Omniverse" engine. It is extremely ambitious and complicated (and buggy), that was loved by grognards, but panned by regular gamers who found the game incredibly hard to learn, the interface confusing and had way too many tiny buttons on screen. Those of you who had played SFB needs no introduction. For the rest of you, the game is 2D (all the actions happen on a single plane, just like in the TV series or movies) but presented in 3D (default view is from behind 3rd person) during battle. EVERY ship system is implemented here, from probes to transporters, from shuttles to high-energy turns, it's all here. It had to be adapted slightly due to the "real-time" nature of the PC implementation instead of turn-based combat like the boardgame, but otherwise the game rules are nearly identical to the boardgame version, and understanding of the boardgame WILL help you understand the PC game. Each of the major races in the game (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, etc.) gets their own campaign, where you, as a young Academy cadet, gets training, then command a small frigate and win battles against pirates and enemies (which will change), and gain prestige, which can be used to add equipment to your ship, upgrade your ship (to larger/better ships), until you command a 3-ship squadron cruising the spaceways. You can even pick the starting date, which affects equipment and ship models available. However, this game, originally released in 2000, requires several fan patches to run on modern hi-res screens, and some scenarios are impossible to win now. It's a great game anyway.

Whether a quick battle or a campaign, I always loved this game. It is fun to disable an enemy ship and watch it flush down a black hole. For my settings: I run in compatibility mode for Windows 7. I have the reduced color mode, disable full screen optimizations, and run as administrator checked. Go into Change high DPI settings. Click Program DPI and high DPI scaling override boxes. Set the dropdown box to System.

Love this game. It is awesome. But i needed to get a refund from GOG. Can't play on Windows 10. 2 Bad because i really loved the game

I owned the original release. The game was unstable back then, would surprise me it the gog version has its bugs as well.