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Star Trek: Starfleet Command III

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Star Trek: Starfleet Command III
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III cover
Developers
Taldren
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows November 7, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 78
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person, Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Space flight
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Star Trek: Starfleet Command
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III on IGDB
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III on MobyGames
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III on Wikipedia
Star Trek: Starfleet Command
Subseries of Star Trek
Star Trek: Starfleet Command 1999
Star Trek: Starfleet Command II - Empires at War 2000
Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Orion Pirates 2001
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III 2002

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Star Trek: Starfleet Command III is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person and top-down view vehicle combat game in the Star Trek: Starfleet Command series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Uses GOG's custom DirectX wrapper. Includes the Nemesis mission.
Windows

Essential improvements

Official patches

Skip intro videos

Delete logo and intro files
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Assets\Cinema
  2. Delete or rename the following files: Activision.bik, Intro.bik, Paramount.bik, Taldren.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\sfc.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General settings menu
General settings menu

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this.
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for GOG.com version.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Versus
Online play
Versus
The official GameSpy service has been shut down; see Unofficial patches.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Incorrect mouse input when moving ship (GOG.com release)

Change display mode
  1. Open the DirectX configuration app at <path-to-game>\dxcfg.exe
  2. Set the Display mode option to "Set by application".
  3. Press Save and close the configuration app.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1, 9 Native Direct3D 9 support requires a separate official patch.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 950 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8.1 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).

References