Star Trek: New Worlds

Star Trek: New Worlds

Developers
	14 Degrees East
	Binary Asylum
Publishers
	Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	September 7, 2000
Reception
Metacritic	52
IGDB	50
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RTS
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Star Trek

Star Trek: New Worlds is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Star Trek series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Out of production for over a decade.

A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Unofficial patch and bonus missions

There is an unofficial patch that contains various bug fixes for the game, as well as an archive with a set of bonus missions.

The unofficial patch can be downloaded from this webpage or directly through this link.

The bonus missions can be downloaded from this webpage or directly through this link.

The bonus missions include a modified game.ini file that unlocks all missions; set the resolution again by following the Widescreen resolution instructions.

Once in a mission, tapping F2 will zoom the camera out to the maximum view distance.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\game.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\game.ini

No real save games are present in the game; only the maximum unlocked missions are recorded.

Video

In-game settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Game has a maximum hackable aspect ratio of the resolution 1366x768.
4K Ultra HD		Game has maximum hackable resolutions below 4k.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		30 FPS cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in game configuration file.

Go to <path-to-game>. Open Game.ini with a text editor. Change the values after GAMEXRES= and GAMEYRES= to the desired screen resolution. Notes This change must be repeated any time a change is made in the in-game options menu. Only resolutions supported by your monitor are accepted; other resolutions will crash the game. The maximum supported "standard" aspect ratio resolution is 1280x1024; higher resolutions will crash the game. The maximum supported 16:10 aspect ratio resolution is 1440x900; higher resolutions will crash the game. The supported resolution with the widest aspect ratio is 1366x768.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound Effects, Music, and Voice.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		The official service has been shut down.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Running the game on modern Windows operating systems

Add a registry entry.

Open the registry editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\ Inside the Wow6432Node registry key, create a new registry key named Interplay Inside the Interplay registry key, create a new registry key named StarTrekNewWorlds Inside the StarTrekNewWorlds registry key, create a new registry key named 1.0.0 Inside the 1.0.0 registry key, create a new String value named CDRom Edit the CDRom string value to the drive letter of your optical disc drive. (Example: D:\)

The game crashes when starting a scenario

Possible issue with file systems or other drive settings.[citation needed]
For some system setups, the game may not run properly from drives formatted with a file system other than FAT32. This may be bypassed by copying the game files to another drive, such as a USB drive, which has been formatted with the FAT32 file system and running the game from there.

Runtime error when starting game

Use a ddraw wrapper from an old version of WineD3D for Windows.
Go to the WineD3D archive page and download WineD3D version 1.7.52. Extract the files ddraw.dll, libwine.dll, and wined3d.dll from the archive to <path-to-game> Notes The files from WineD3D version 3.9 may work with certain processor and GPU combinations.

Unable to install game on 64-bit Windows due to 16-bit installer being unsupported

Manually extract the game data.

Go to the Universal Extractor page and download the Universal Extractor. Using the Universal Extractor, extract the files from DATA1.CAB to a chosen location. This location will become the <path-to-game>. Follow Running The Game On Modern Windows Operating Systems to create the registry keys required to run the game. Follow Runtime Error When Starting Game to wrap DirectDraw for use on modern Windows operating systems. Notes This does not bypass copy protection; the game will still check for a disc and will refuse to run if the disc is not found.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			Game installer is 16-bit.

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video, Smacker Video Technology
Multiplayer	MPlayer.com

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	400 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible