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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy cover
Developers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
Windows September 12, 1997
Mac OS (Classic) October 31, 1997
Taxonomy
Series Star Trek
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on HowLongToBeat
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on MobyGames
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on Wikipedia
Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative 1985
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy 1986
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe 1987
Star Trek: First Contact 1988
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Transinium Challenge 1989
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary 1992
Star Trek: Judgment Rites 1993
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity 1995
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger 1996
Star Trek: Klingon 1996
Star Trek: Borg 1996
Star Trek: Generations 1997
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1997
Star Trek Pinball 1998
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard 1998
Star Trek: The Game Show 1998
Star Trek: Starship Creator (series)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation 1999
Star Trek: Starfleet Command (series)
Star Trek: Hidden Evil 1999
Star Trek: Armada (series)
Star Trek: ConQuest Online 2000
Star Trek: Klingon Academy 2000
Star Trek: New Worlds 2000
Star Trek: Elite Force (series)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen 2000
Star Trek: Away Team 2001
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars 2001
Star Trek: Bridge Commander 2002
Star Trek: Legacy 2006
Star Trek DAC 2009
Star Trek Online 2010
Star Trek (2013) 2013
Star Trek Timelines 2016
Star Trek: Bridge Crew 2017
Star Trek Adversaries 2018
Star Trek: Legend‪s‬ 2021
Star Trek Fleet Command 2021
Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova 2022
Star Trek: Resurgence 2023
Star Trek: Infinite 2023

General information

Memory Alpha - A massive wiki for Star Trek
TrekCore.com game hub
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Available on 5 CDs as well as a later DVD-ROM release in 1998.
The Mac OS version did not get a DVD release with better video quality.
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
CD version
Windows
Steam
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CD version
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Chekov's Lost Missions The addon was released 1998 on 1 CD. Did not get a DVD release. Not included in digital releases.
Windows

Essential improvements

Official Patches

Latest patches are available here

Unofficial Patches

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (DVD edition) - Windows 10 Upgrade Patch
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - CD to DVD movie upgrade pack & compatibility patch for Chekov´s Lost Missions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\options.cfg[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/364810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegame\*.sav[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/364810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 is the native resolution. dcVoodoo can be used to force widescreen resolutions, but the image is stretched.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See Windowed.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See Windowed.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Game locks at 60fps.
120+ FPS

Windowed

Use dgVooDoo to force higher resolutions, windowed mode, and anti-aliasing.
Installation instructions[1]
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and extract the archive.
  2. Open the MS\x86 folder and copy D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll files to the installation directory of sfa3d.exe.
  3. Paste the files into the game installation folder where the game executable is.
  4. Run the included dgVoodooCpl program and configure the following settings.
    • General
      • Fullscreen or Windowed
    • DirectX
      • Videocard: ATI Radeon 8500 (best results - no corrupted nebulars)
      • Filtering: Desired anisotropic filtering
      • Resolution: Desired output resolution
        Note: Widescreen resolutions cause the game to appear stretched.
      • Antialiasing: Desired AA level
      • Fast video memory access: Checked (the game has z-buffer issues unless this is enabled)
  5. Save the dgVoodoo config file to the installation directory of sfa3d.exe.
  6. Launch sfa3d.exe instead of sfa.exe. The latter uses software rendering.

Input

Control settings.
Control settings.
Keybinding settings.
Keybinding settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Speech (On/Off toggle), Music, and General SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 1.0.[2] Requires the correct patch

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for digital versions.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Unable to play MPEG-2 video on DVD version

The game uses the now obsolete MCI interface instead of the modern DirectDraw for videoplayback. MCI was fully supported only until Windows 98 (Me).
Install Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (DVD-Edition) - Windows 10 Upgrade Patch
  1. Incorporates gulikozas dxmci fix and prepares the game for a potential HD-Video-upgrade
  2. Works with Direct3D and Softwarerendering - using dgVoodoo2 by dege

Unable to use "Checkov´s Lost Missions"-addon with DVD version

If you install/integrate the addon with the DVD version, the game crashes when trying to play a movie-file from the addon
Install Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Compatibility patch for Chekov´s Lost Missions
  1. Replaces "Interplay MVE video" files with H.264/MPEG encoded movie-files which are compatible with the DVD Version.

Controller not recognized/working as intended in-game

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy can have issues recognizing gamepads and similar peripherals on modern operating systems.

Set a preferred device[3]
  1. Navigate to Control Panel.
  2. Navigate to Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers.
  3. Find your controller in the list and right-click the device, then select "Game Controller Settings."
  4. Under Advanced, set the device to be your "Preferred device" for older games.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 150 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 185 MB
Video card (GPU) VESA compliant SVGA card
1 MB of VRAM
DirectX 3.0a compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/364810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (364810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References