Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

[Jenni]

I just got ST V: EF, and man this game is awesome! Except that it will barely run on my system, which is a Celeron 300A, O/C to 375 (yeah, I know 83 MHz FBS can be a pain, but is has been perfect so far, and it won't even boot at 100 FSB), 64 MB PC133, and 2 crappy HDD's, which I think is where the problem is, or maybe not enough RAM. Anyway, it takes about 5 minutes to load between missions, and then every time the HDD "thinks" it skips and jumps. Well, if I ever get some money (haha, fat chance...) I'm gonna get some more RAM and a big HDD. Then I'll have some fun for sure! For now I think I'll take it to a friend's house and play it on his Athlon 800.

[mosquito]

Yeah, it's an awesome game, but damn it is short. I finished it in 12 Hours flat (and I'm a very slow player).

I especially liked the parts on Voyager and with the borg.

The game uses the Quake 3 engine, so a beefy system is required. If you lower the visual goodies it's very good playable, but memory is important. I have 256Mb and it still takes quite some time to load between levels (20-30 seconds)

Well, ensign munroe, off you go.

[Edited by mosquito on 01-25-2001 at 11:35 AM]

[Prader Willi]

Cool game, (it was my vote for game of the year)- I really enjoyed it-- although the second time through the missions requiring you to talk to people on the Enterprise are a little annoying--, I thought the end boss was kinda disspointing, but then end bosses usually are. Don't forget to try the multiplayer.

I didn't notice any unusually long load times.

[Jenni]

Like I said, my HDD's suck. They aren't even UDMA 33, much less anything else faster than that...The biggest (a whopping 3.2GB) one is a Fujitsu laptop drive that I salvaged from my laptop after I killed it. The smaller is an old Seagate Medalist that is 2 GB. Add to that that I only have 64 megs of RAM, and you get an instant bottleneck. I turned down the detail levels to low, and that helped some. But, on a more positive note, the highest I have seen my CPU temp is 82 degrees F. Of course, I didn't adjust the CPU voltage as this MB (Aopen AX63) doesn't seem to have any voltage adjustments anywhere.