I've been testing different things to see what works. The following methods worked for me and in some cases others also. Please keep in mind that some fixes work for some people but none of the fixes work for everyone. So you may have to try a couple before you hit on the right one.
For reference this is my system:
x58 i7 920
6 GB OCZ Ram
EVGA 260 Core 216 (Overclocked to - Core Clock 750MHz MemoryClock 1221MHz)
Win7 x64
Logitech game peripherals including G9x mouse, G35 Headset, and Formula Force Steering Wheel
I only mention the gaming gear so that you can reference whether you too have drivers for any of these installed on your system.
Method One: Install older nVidia driver, 190.62. Please remember to uninstall your current driver first, otherwise you'll have some problems and it probably won't work right.
To uninstall your current driver:
Vista: Start\Settings\Control Panel\Add Remove Program
Windows XP: Start\Control Panel\Add Remove Program
Win7: Start\Control Panel\Programs and Features
Find the entry for nVidia Drivers and uninstall. You should be presented with a pop up to re-boot when it's done. If for some reason you don't get the pop up, re-boot anyway. Now proceed to install the 190.62 driver.
**It's not necessary to do this when you're upgrading your driver but I do it anyway to insure a clean installation.
Method Two: If you don't want to roll back to the older driver you can try this, it has worked for a few people.
The nVidia Control Panel in Windows has game profiles that you can use to play different games.
Go to "Manage 3D Settings" and choose Star Trek Online.exe from the drop down menu. If you don't see it you will have to add it to your list of installed games.
Click add and find your installation. It took me 20 minutes to find it because it's buried somewhere I wouldn't normally look, I use Win7 x64. This is the path C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios
If you're using Vista or XP you'll have to search around a bit. Win7 organizes installations, files and programs a bit differently. Once you've added the .exe to nVidia edit the following settings.
Antialiasing Mode - Enhance the Application Settings
Antialiasing Setting - I tried 8xQ and 16xQ and both worked fine for me
Threaded Optimization - On
You can also try these if you want to try to tweak it a bit more. Initially I didn't and it was fine.
Power Management Mode - Prefer Maximum Performance
Anisotropic Filtering - 4x - You can of course try higher settings but this seems to work well for me.
***You should be able to turn the in-game corresponding settings to off without losing any quality and in fact you should.
Method Three: This actually has worked best for me along with the above settings. But it worked good without touching any settings except in game which I had set to max.
nVidia has a BETA driver available for download, 195.81. To find this driver, enter your card info and serach on this nVida page. Keep in mind that it is BETA and therefore can still have bugs. My experience with nVidia BETA drivers has been very good over the years, and I have not had a single problem with this driver playing anything yet. I played, Dead Space, Borderlands, EVEonline, Bioshock and Resident Evil 5 and everything was perfect. Keep in mind that I keep all game settings at their max positions.
The installation took a bit longer than I'm used to for an nVidia driver so keep that in mind if you're going to try this. Like any other video driver installation your screen will blink on and off a few times 3 I think.
After I installed this driver I was getting frame rates up to 50FPS, I specifically went to Space Station 24 because of the amount of ships in space and because it has an in station mission also. I was glad to see that I wasn't the only one in either space or the station. In space their were probably 20 or 30 ships, both other players and AI, in the station their were 3 teams which means 15 people running around plus the AI. Everything was smooth as butter and I could not be more happy.
Good luck with these and if you try any of these fixes please post your results so others can see if and what works.
But please if you try and it doesn't work for you please specify which method you tried and your results and if you tried any settings other than the ones I mention.
4gb ram (corsairs)
64 bit windows 7
nvidia 9800gtx+
quad core cpu
When trying the nVidia profile fix, did you remember to disable the corresponding settings in the game?
Did you try that same fix with the BETA drivers, 195.81?
Is your card made by EVGA? If so try the Precision overclocking tool (It's under software/utilities) to get the most out of your card. If not EVGA I would check with your card makers site for something similar.
If all else fails just delete the nvidia drivers in control panel and use the default windows one... games graphics are the same and i get nothing but smoothness.. this does annoy me though when i watch my movies or do other graphics related stuff, as some difference is qaulity. The main thing is STO runs flawlessly, no stuttering and great fun. There is nothing worse than trying to do ground based pvp and lagging to death, its just not fulfilling and would probably turn a lot of people away from the game.
If all else fails just delete the nvidia drivers in control panel and use the default windows one... games graphics are the same and i get nothing but smoothness.. this does annoy me though when i watch my movies or do other graphics related stuff, as some difference is qaulity. The main thing is STO runs flawlessly, no stuttering and great fun. There is nothing worse than trying to do ground based pvp and lagging to death, its just not fulfilling and would probably turn a lot of people away from the game.
Obviously everyone runs in different ways. I've got so many issues it's unbearable.
Did all of the above, no dice. Still have absolutely terrible FPS on foot but relatively good in space.
Windows 7, 64-bit
Intel i7-975 @ 3.33 GhZ
6 gigs of RAM
Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 in SLI w/beta drivers
Have about 10 fps on foot, choppy gameplay, etc. Even reverted to older drivers and that didn't seem to help a bit.
Just going to give an update on my own issue. I found that turning shadows all the way off would add FPS in SOME instances. However, in other places it doesn't make a difference.
Regardless, it's rather silly because GTX 295s are the top-of-the-line, aren't they? I shouldn't really have to turn shadows off. Or should I?
Obviously everyone runs in different ways. I've got so many issues it's unbearable.
Just going to give an update on my own issue. I found that turning shadows all the way off would add FPS in SOME instances. However, in other places it doesn't make a difference.
Regardless, it's rather silly because GTX 295s are the top-of-the-line, aren't they? I shouldn't really have to turn shadows off. Or should I?
It's not your card, it's the driver that's the issue. Any 200 series card should be able to run this game in all of the settings set to their maximum settings.
It's not your card, it's the driver that's the issue. Any 200 series card should be able to run this game in all of the settings set to their maximum settings.
Are you sure it's the drivers or the incompatability with the game? From my view, there are a lot of people ticked at Cryptic--not NVIDIA. Regardless, I've tried three sets of drivers and honestly don't feel a need to go any further back. Is ridiculous to have to roll back anyway.
Are you sure it's the drivers or the incompatability with the game? From my view, there are a lot of people ticked at Cryptic--not NVIDIA. Regardless, I've tried three sets of drivers and honestly don't feel a need to go any further back. Is ridiculous to have to roll back anyway.
Here's to hoping there's an actual fix.
Actually I phrased that wrong. You're right it's not the actual driver but the compatibility between driver and game. Did you try the BETA driver?
If all else fails just delete the nvidia drivers in control panel and use the default windows one... games graphics are the same and i get nothing but smoothness.. this does annoy me though when i watch my movies or do other graphics related stuff, as some difference is qaulity. The main thing is STO runs flawlessly, no stuttering and great fun. There is nothing worse than trying to do ground based pvp and lagging to death, its just not fulfilling and would probably turn a lot of people away from the game.
The shadow setting was the only thing that fixed the horrible stuttering issue for me. I recently upgraded from a Radeon 4850 to an nVidia 465, and was about to go crazy thinking it wasn't an upgrade. I didn't have the stuttering near as much with the Radeon. I tried different resolutions, AA settings, filtering settings nothing helped but changing the shadow setting to Low makes a huge difference. Seems fine in space though. Maybe Cryptic and nVidia will get something worked out.
I have a PC that had graphic "stuttering" in the game. Upgrading to the latest nVidia drivers fixed the problem. I did uninstall the existing ones first, do a reboot, clean the temp folder, and then installed the new ones (latest from their site). My other computer uses an ATI card and doesn't have the problem / never did.
this thread isnt exactly for me since I have an ATI card, but I have the same stuttering issue. Game runs fine in space (most of the time), but ground missions every 2-3 minutes will chug down from 60fps to 1-10fps, horribly stuttering. If I alt+tab out of the game, then immediately go back in, the frames go back up to 60. sigh... I havent played this game for weeks because of it.
you forgot to add set pre-rendered frames to 0 this helps aswell, i did this both on the gtx460 when i had the beta drivers 260.99 and the an currenty run a gtx580 with the latest driver.
Their response was start the game in safe mode. Then after that was upgrade your video card. I havent received a response back since I pointed out that my entire system including the video card exceeds the recommended requirements for the game.
I have played around with some of the settings and turning off the in-game AA, and turning up the setting on the card seems to have fixed most of it. I also agree with the pre-rendered frames to 0 suggestion as that seems to help as well, not really sure why.
Game still freezes occasionally for no apparent reason, it can freeze during ground or space combat, or when I am doing nothing but working in my bank. I usually Ctrl+Alt+Del and then cancel and re-enter the game, that usually kick starts it again, but it almost appears that the game resumed running while it was in the background because usually events had continued.
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im on 190.62 with stuttering :-(
Can you post your system specs please?
64 bit windows 7
nvidia 9800gtx+
quad core cpu
When trying the nVidia profile fix, did you remember to disable the corresponding settings in the game?
Did you try that same fix with the BETA drivers, 195.81?
Is your card made by EVGA? If so try the Precision overclocking tool (It's under software/utilities) to get the most out of your card. If not EVGA I would check with your card makers site for something similar.
Windows 7, 64-bit
Intel i7-975 @ 3.33 GhZ
6 gigs of RAM
Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 in SLI w/beta drivers
Have about 10 fps on foot, choppy gameplay, etc. Even reverted to older drivers and that didn't seem to help a bit.
Currently using the prescribed drivers.
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Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
Intel i7-975 @ 3.33 GhZ
6 Gb of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
Obviously everyone runs in different ways. I've got so many issues it's unbearable.
Just going to give an update on my own issue. I found that turning shadows all the way off would add FPS in SOME instances. However, in other places it doesn't make a difference.
Regardless, it's rather silly because GTX 295s are the top-of-the-line, aren't they? I shouldn't really have to turn shadows off. Or should I?
It's not your card, it's the driver that's the issue. Any 200 series card should be able to run this game in all of the settings set to their maximum settings.
Are you sure it's the drivers or the incompatability with the game? From my view, there are a lot of people ticked at Cryptic--not NVIDIA. Regardless, I've tried three sets of drivers and honestly don't feel a need to go any further back. Is ridiculous to have to roll back anyway.
Here's to hoping there's an actual fix.
Actually I phrased that wrong. You're right it's not the actual driver but the compatibility between driver and game. Did you try the BETA driver?
Is currently what I'm running. No dice.
at the moment ive got an XFX GTS 250 1GB
Tried that I got the same error
Intel Core2 Extreme QX6850
4GB DDR2 RAM
PNY GTS 250L 1GB
Windows 7 64bit
Their response was start the game in safe mode. Then after that was upgrade your video card. I havent received a response back since I pointed out that my entire system including the video card exceeds the recommended requirements for the game.
I have played around with some of the settings and turning off the in-game AA, and turning up the setting on the card seems to have fixed most of it. I also agree with the pre-rendered frames to 0 suggestion as that seems to help as well, not really sure why.
Game still freezes occasionally for no apparent reason, it can freeze during ground or space combat, or when I am doing nothing but working in my bank. I usually Ctrl+Alt+Del and then cancel and re-enter the game, that usually kick starts it again, but it almost appears that the game resumed running while it was in the background because usually events had continued.