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Well, I got myself a birthday present for me (March 17th coming up 
), Star Trek: Legacy for the PC platform on DVD. I got home, opened the package and installed the game. After about 10 minutes of install time, I was ready to play.
I started the game, and skipped through the intros. Normally I watch them for the first time through but I have a widescreen monitor so it would have been stretched anyway. So I get to the mainscreen and change my options to a low widescreen resolution. My system is an XP machine with an Athlon 2800+, 1.5Gb of RAM and 256Mb GeForce 7300LE, which met the requirements but I wasn't taking any chances. Anyway, I set the resolution, and went back to the mainscreen to play. The game promptly crashed.
So I restarted the game, skipped through the intros, got to the main screen and selected Campaign mode. The game loaded about halfway, and promptly crashed. So, I rebooted the system, updated all of my drivers, went to Filefront to see if there was a patch (1.2), downloaded it and installed it. I started up the game again, and went into the Campaign mode. It didn't crash, and I was able to watch the first scene intro of the game. Well, I was kind of able to watch it, the sound was stuttering very badly and the screen was jerky, so I lowered the resolution as far as I could go while still being widescreen.
I restarted the game and decided I'd try a skirmish first to see how it would perform. I muddled my way around for a few minutes, got the game going and started trying to play the skirmish. I say trying, because the steering controls aren't the best, and the ships were fighting each other like lumbering goliaths. Now, I don't expect nimble turns when you're battling a Soverign class ship (it'd be nice if you could choose a one on one that doesn't always make the enemy the same class as you. I'd like to be a scout and take on a battleship once in a while), but I was hoping they would move more fluidly. Whether that's my GFX card or the game itself, I don't know, but they were handling poorly, and that's when I could get the camera to stop spinning wildly while I tried to aim phasers and fire, when the targeting system would work.
So I quit that game out of frustration and at the main menu, I saw "v1.030". I had installed the 1.2 patch but it apparently didn't hold. So I downloaded the v1.1 patch and then installed the v1.2 patch, just in case it had to be sequential. It still said "v1.030" at the Legacy screen. I've been playing around with the game since I bought it yesterday, but it's been one collosal headache after another. It's a shame, too, because this game looks like it could be a lot of fun. It makes me think of my favorite game, "Klingon Academy", which doesn't work for me because it doesn't support widescreen monitors very well.
I'm hoping Bethesda and Mad Doc come out with another patch, and I hope it's a good one. I just can't get this game to behave at all. It's very, very buggy and doesn't run smoothly at all. Granted, my system specs aren't up to date, but they do meet the requirements of the game, and when everything is set to the lowest level, I would at least hope I'd get smooth gameplay out of it, but I don't.
I would like to say that the graphics look very good, and if the gameplay issues can be resolved, I think this game will be a keeper. As it is though, I'm almost regretting that I bought it.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions to make the game run better? I would appreciate it.
J.
), Star Trek: Legacy for the PC platform on DVD. I got home, opened the package and installed the game. After about 10 minutes of install time, I was ready to play.I started the game, and skipped through the intros. Normally I watch them for the first time through but I have a widescreen monitor so it would have been stretched anyway. So I get to the mainscreen and change my options to a low widescreen resolution. My system is an XP machine with an Athlon 2800+, 1.5Gb of RAM and 256Mb GeForce 7300LE, which met the requirements but I wasn't taking any chances. Anyway, I set the resolution, and went back to the mainscreen to play. The game promptly crashed.
So I restarted the game, skipped through the intros, got to the main screen and selected Campaign mode. The game loaded about halfway, and promptly crashed. So, I rebooted the system, updated all of my drivers, went to Filefront to see if there was a patch (1.2), downloaded it and installed it. I started up the game again, and went into the Campaign mode. It didn't crash, and I was able to watch the first scene intro of the game. Well, I was kind of able to watch it, the sound was stuttering very badly and the screen was jerky, so I lowered the resolution as far as I could go while still being widescreen.
I restarted the game and decided I'd try a skirmish first to see how it would perform. I muddled my way around for a few minutes, got the game going and started trying to play the skirmish. I say trying, because the steering controls aren't the best, and the ships were fighting each other like lumbering goliaths. Now, I don't expect nimble turns when you're battling a Soverign class ship (it'd be nice if you could choose a one on one that doesn't always make the enemy the same class as you. I'd like to be a scout and take on a battleship once in a while), but I was hoping they would move more fluidly. Whether that's my GFX card or the game itself, I don't know, but they were handling poorly, and that's when I could get the camera to stop spinning wildly while I tried to aim phasers and fire, when the targeting system would work.
So I quit that game out of frustration and at the main menu, I saw "v1.030". I had installed the 1.2 patch but it apparently didn't hold. So I downloaded the v1.1 patch and then installed the v1.2 patch, just in case it had to be sequential. It still said "v1.030" at the Legacy screen. I've been playing around with the game since I bought it yesterday, but it's been one collosal headache after another. It's a shame, too, because this game looks like it could be a lot of fun. It makes me think of my favorite game, "Klingon Academy", which doesn't work for me because it doesn't support widescreen monitors very well.
I'm hoping Bethesda and Mad Doc come out with another patch, and I hope it's a good one. I just can't get this game to behave at all. It's very, very buggy and doesn't run smoothly at all. Granted, my system specs aren't up to date, but they do meet the requirements of the game, and when everything is set to the lowest level, I would at least hope I'd get smooth gameplay out of it, but I don't.
I would like to say that the graphics look very good, and if the gameplay issues can be resolved, I think this game will be a keeper. As it is though, I'm almost regretting that I bought it.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions to make the game run better? I would appreciate it.
J.
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