Star Trek: Generations
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| Developers | |
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| MicroProse (Alameda) | |
| Publishers | |
| MicroProse | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | May 21, 1997 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | First-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Adventure, Puzzle |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Sci-fi, Space |
| Series | Star Trek |
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Star Trek: Generations is a singleplayer first-person adventure and puzzle game in the Star Trek series.
The game is difficult to get running natively on modern operating system. Virtual machine usage may be required.[1]
General information
- Official website (archived)
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | |
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Essential improvements
Compatibility profile
| Compatibility profile[2] |
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Alternative installer
- As original installer doesn't work on modern systems, alternative installer created by Suicide_Machine was developed to make the process of installation on modern systems easier. It contains custom compatibility profile for the game, missing video codec and files. It may not work with all releases.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\Sgens.cfg[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME\[Note 1] |
Video
General settings.
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | Only 640x480 supported. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| 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) | Enable by Default | ||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
| Ray tracing (RT) | |||
| Color blind mode | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DirectDraw | 3 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||||
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| Minimum | ||||
| Operating system (OS) | 95 | |||
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 90 MHz | |||
| System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |||
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 75 MB | |||
| Video card (GPU) | 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 3.0a compatible |
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Notes
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2019-09-05
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2019-09-12
- ↑ BraSoft (archived). - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Nostalgia Pixelada (box shots) - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Official Spanish intro with voices - last accessed on May 2023