I still have alot of older models and files for SFC1 and SFC3 from the old battleclinic days, but all those old hosts went defunct years ago. Was wondering if theres any active hosts for ship models nowadays?

I'm trying to make this game work on my husband's Dell Alienware Windows 11 computer and I'm having a horrible time. I'm hoping one of you can help me. I have Windows 10 and my husband has Windows 11. My computer is a much older Cyberpower PC custom. It's about 9 years old. My husband's computer was just bought brand new last year. I couldn't get the files from the Hot and Spicy Forums to work on either of our computers, so I bought the Gold Edition from Steam for both of our computers. I can get the game to play on his computer, with sound, if I use compatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 2. But when I do that, the game can't be launched through Steam and has to be manually launched through the exe file on his C drive, which is in the Starfleet Command Folder, which is in the Steam Folder. (So why it just can't launch through Steam I don't know.) I can get the game to launch through Steam on his computer if I use compatibility with Windows Vista. But when it launches through Steam, there's no sound. I can launch through Steam on my computer, with sound, with my compatibility being with Windows XP Service Pack 3. For config on both of ours we have the resolution to the max and for config settings on both of ours the mouse = 0.

I have some questions:

1. What do I do to get him sound when he launches through Steam?
2. He wants to play in multiplayer mode online with his friend who is in another state. He and his friend can't figure out how to make it work. They can get each other's IP addresses in their address books but then they're stuck and don't know what to do. They tried it both by launching through Steam and launching manually through the exe file in File Explorer. Can this game still be played in multiplayer mode and, if so, how?
3. My husband has all the original CD games. Would this just work better if I forgot about Steam and installed the CDs and messed around with the compatibility settings until they worked? If I do that, is he going to be able to play in multiplayer mode or is this game just so damn old that it's not possible anymore?

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When I say I can't get the Hot and Spicy Forums files to work - I unpacked all the ZIP files and followed the directions. When I click the button to launch, nothing happens.

So, this is probably a dumb question, but I've been trying to find anything on how the Lyran heavy weapon interacts with the Plasma Torpedo. I know how the Hellbore and ESG interact, as well as with Shuttles, Fighters and Missiles, but I can't find anything on Plasmas.

Trying to play it by a simple installation doesn't do much of anything, as the game only allows me time on the game menu to prepare and by the time I start a session the game crashes. Is there a way I could get it running on here at all?

I was way big into this when it came out in 99, and played SFC OP, SFC 2, and SFC 3 (this one for the mods!). I've been feeling nostalgic and see that it's on sale on Steam, but I was wondering if there's still can anyone playing the multiplayer. Either way, I'm going to get it later today because, dang, what a fun game it was.

Shoutout to my old Black Legion Knights fleetmates!

I would love to get these games again, along with any add ons and mods, but I'm worried about spending hours trying to get them to work, only to have them not work.

Is there a detailed step by step guide on how to get them installed and working on Windows 10?

im looking for the 534B patch

does the dynaverse.net server patch still work to connect online? if so ill make a VM box and put up a server.

there is an HD texture patch but i cant find it stand alone, anyone know where a link would be for it?

With the latest re-release, who wants to set up a dyna verse? Myself and a friend who played it way back when I was 15 and whom I still talk to that lives in Sydney Australia are going to play it. I'd like to set up a little server for it

6 games from the golden era are now on GOG and working!!!

Starfleet Command 3 now runs perfectly on W10! Even installed the Generations at War 2.0 mod this morning and it is flawless!

Edit: now having campaign conquest issues.

Damn, no wide-screen and I can't get my favorite mod to work on the new GOG release.

Back to playing on my separate VISTA rig

I try to run the game, and the main menu is a black screen.

I go online and download the Windows 10 patch, and when I run it, it crashes with this message:

Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.01 Build 534

SFC3.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module <UNKNOWN> at 0023:00000012

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EAX=00000012 EBX=00000000 ECX=0019B764 EDX=06BB5068 ESI=04CB02D0

EDI=0019B7B8 EBP=0019B774 ESP=0019B74C EIP=00000012 FLG=00010206

CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B

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And I don't know how to Disable visual themes" on the "Display Settings " because there is no such option on the SFC3.exe. Could someone please help me?

If anyone's interested, I finally figured out how to decode i4x files. They're used for music in SFC (and SFC II iirc). Hit me up if interested, if not I'll get around to posting a GitHub in a month or so.

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Edit: done. https://github.com/Teveron/i4x2acm

Title.

Has anyone purchased the games off if dynaverse.net? Any issues playing them on a newer computer?

I realize no one will read this post, lol. I was craving some nostalgia a few weeks ago, and I installed SFC3 on my Windows 10 machine, and I was so happy and surprised that it worked! However, yesterday's Windows 10 update just killed it, it gives the exception access violation error message now, tried everything I could find on Google but nothing fixed it. Fucking updates!