Talk:Star Trek: Birth of the Federation

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This game may not be playable on the Zone anymore as the Zone site has delisted the game

KatherineVee 04:14, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

MESSAGE FOR::KatherineVee You can still play this game on the Zone, even though its deleted as the Zone still allows it through "Direct Play" option. --SanityFreeZone 14:04, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

In response to the "unreferenced"-tag (November 2007) in main page, searching the net does not reveal any official pages or reviews about the game which qualify as reliable in the given wikipedia terms for source reliability. All remotely usable reviews are 8 years and older: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/startrekthenextgbotf/review.html?tag=tabs;reviews and http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/25/federation.idg/index.html . Since the vanishing of Microprose, no official site was put up again. The Atari BotF support site linked in the External Links section here on main page is the only official site to be found on the net and it is not very informative. Atari main homepage does not even list the game anymore (check via search there). I would say that in this case we either erase all data since it cannot be validated anymore or we agree that the data given here in this very version of the wiki is from now on our new "reference". In any way, we need to remove the "unreferenced-tag" on top of the wiki and replace it with a "unreferencable-tag". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.179.142.183 (talk) 09:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

well, just a day after I wrote the remark directly above about botf being unreferencable, there's a brand-new review on ign dated December 7th: http://rr.pc.ign.com/rrview/pc/star_trek_the_next_generation_birth_of_the_federation/10395/77626/ so there is new material for this wiki entry to improve overall quality of the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.179.158.110 (talk) 15:18, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Windows Vista

Can it be played on Vista? If so, how? Tom Green (talk) 15:28, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

 It can be played with vista using the inofficial 1.02 version patch from the afc forums (see link 
 in main page). Depends on your graphic cards though since there seem to be problems with 8800 
 cards..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.50.34.186 (talk) 12:00, 5 February 2008 (UTC) 

Interesting. You should add that to the article, down the bottom in the compatibility section. --Hibernian (talk) 01:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

It's still a random issue. From what people at the forums say, the game runs fine in vista without even compatibility modes or any patches. A few of them need the patch for some unknown reason (unknown because they can't or don't tell us) but generally it should work just fine.

Another thing is with Nvidia 8800 GTS cards. The original driver strikes. You need the omega drivers from omegadrivers.net but we only got 2 people reporting that issue cause they had that card and vista so it seems to be the solution, but I leave it up to anyone who actually has that equipment and can prove it with their computer to write it in main page. I simply don't have any proof about all this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.50.8.43 (talk) 18:14, 7 February 2008 (UTC)