Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen

Developers
	The Collective
Publishers
North America	Simon & Schuster Interactive
Europe	Infinite Loop
Engines
	Unreal Engine 1
Release dates
Windows	November 15, 2000
Mac OS (Classic)	November 23, 2000
Reception
Metacritic	81
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter, TPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi, Space
Series	Star Trek

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen is a singleplayer third-person action, FPS, shooter and TPS game in the Star Trek series.

Demo of the game features special levels, which are not a part of official game. See Demo Levels.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from April 13, 2001.

TrekCore - patches, faq and hints.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

A free demo version is available from TrekCore and Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

• Retail Patch (patch 112100) - this patch won't work with minimal installation of the game.
• Mini Code Patch (English and German) - solves problem with application not starting and Direct3D not being detected.

It is recommended to install this patch after updating a game to version 112100 / retail patch.

Verifying version of the game[citation needed]
Go to Start Menu → Programs → Deep Space Nine-The Fallen → Help (The very last line shows the current build). If the build is "Build110800-d-US" or "Build110800-d-EU-sr", then the patch is needed.

Peixoto's patch

• Peixoto's patch forced resolution allows high resolution without shrinking the HUD\menus. Super sampling anti-aliasing is also possible. Works with the OpenGL and Direct3D 7 renderers.

Demo levels

• Fusion Creative Design created 3 special levels for a demo version of the game. These levels were later on released as a free addon for the full game and can be downloaded here (Convergence for Windows v1.1).

Skip Infinite Loop intro video

Skip Infinite Loop intro video[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\movies\. Delete or rename intro.avi.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\system\DS9.ini
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Video Settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor			See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen			See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD			See the WSGF entry. Set FullscreenViewportX=3840 and FullscreenViewportY=2160 in <path-to-game>/system/DS9.ini.
Field of view (FOV)		See the WSGF entry.
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Vsync is always on in Direct3D, OpenGL and software mode. When using 3dfx wrapper, it can be forced from the wrapper settings.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See this Steam guide (only changing 0AD7A33B to 00000000 needed).
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input Settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse Smoothing option. Mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		Like a lot of other console ports, it has no 1:1 mouse support.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Basic joystick support.
Full controller support		Mouse is required for menu navigation as well as some in-game actions (e.g. adjusting phaser modulation).
Controller remapping		See Controller remapping.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Controller remapping

In-game options are limited to buttons remapping only. Below are instructions how to remap axis.

Use preferences command[citation needed]
Open a console by pressing ~. Type in: preferences. Go to Advanced / Raw Key Bindings. Scroll down until finding the following values: JoyR - this is first of the axis. JoyZ is the last. Edit settings by clicking into a box right of the Axis name. Notes Only movement and aiming can be bound to axis.

Audio

Audio Settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Under Game settings.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		A3D 2.0 & EAX.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Japanese				Japanese release.
Russian

Issues fixed

Freeze when loading data from CD

For some reason, even if a full version of a game is installed, some data is still being loaded from CD. This may result in a freeze when using physical compact disk, due to game waiting for a disc drive to spin the disc and load a data from it.

Change registry entries[citation needed]
Perform a full installation of the game. Open the Registry Editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\The Collective Studios inc.\Deep Space Nine The Fallen\ds9thefallen\. Copy the value of installpath and paste it to CdPath.

Use a virtual CD drive[citation needed]
Install the game from a virtual CD drive. Run the game using an image inside a virtual CD drive.

Camera keeps spinning, when a joystick is enabled

Lower joystick sensitivity[citation needed]
Open a console by pressing ~. Type in: preferences. Open a Joystick tab. Lower both ScaleRUV and Scale XYZ values.

MSI Afterburner issues

Depending on the setting, the overlay may not be shown, or the game may crash upon pressing the overlay button.

Change the settings in RivaTuner[citation needed]
After launching MSI Afterburner, open the RivaTunerStatisticsServer from the system tray. Add DS9.exe from <path-to-game>\system\ to the settings. Set "Application detection level" to "high" and Stealth mode to "ON".

Low-poly shadows cast on characters' models

By default, the DX11 renderer enables ASSAO, which causes some ugly shadows to appear on character models.

Change the DX11 renderer's settings
Open the developer console with ~/Tab ↹. Use the preferences command to open the Advanced Options window. Navigate to Rendering → Direct3D 11 support. Set ASSAO to False. Close the Advanced Options window for the change to take effect.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7
DirectDraw	2	Software renderer.
OpenGL		Experimental support.
Glide		Experimental support.
Software renderer

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System

System requirements

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 233 MHz	Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	165 MB (minimal installation)	680 MB (full installation)
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM	8 MB of VRAM

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	8
Processor (CPU)	Power Mac G3
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	150 MB	650 MB