Star Trek: Fleet Command

What works

The game installation works as it does on Windows and the game runs as you would expect.

What does not

Login using ScopelyID makes the game client crash - but there's a fix!

Depending on which browser you're using in Linux and which settings you have applied in your browser the login process in the game client may not work, but fear not: There's a fix!

Steps for reproduction:

1. Click on "Existing player" in game. A browser in your host operating system is started.
2. Complete the login on the ScopelyID website which is opened. You will now experience that the game client just hangs.

Workarounds

Login using ScopelyID makes the game client crash - but there's a fix!

Steps for resolving the problem:

1. Run "wine regedit"
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine
3. Create the key (folder) "WineBrowser" if it doesn't exist, without the quotes
4. Create a string value named "Browsers" if it doesn't exist and enter the value "firefox" without the quotes
5. Close regedit
6. Run "wine launcher" from within the game launcher directory
7. Log in successfully now that the launcher opens Firefox

What this essentially does is ensuring that winebrowser.exe in your Wine installation uses Firefox instead of whatever your default browser in your host operating system is. During my testing I used a fresh install of Firefox without any customisation of any settings. Since I don't know which settings breaks the ScopelyID login I can't tell you why this works, but it is likely that any freshly installed browser will work. My daily driver is Chromium with some pretty tight security settings and that's probably related. I'm not going to dig deeper into this since the Firefox workaround just works.

Zooming in the game client stops working

This may be related to the fact that I use i3wm as my window manager, however when I switch between active windows zooming using the mouse scroll wheel stops working. This can be resolved by going into the game settings and toggling fullscreen off and on again. Whenever I change active windows this has to be done again.

TL;DR: Zooming in the game breaks when changing windows in Linux, but can be fixed.

What was not tested

No browser other than Chromium and Firefox were tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Best known version at time of writing is 7.12

1) Run "wine regedit"

2) Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine

3) Create the key (folder) "WineBrowser" if it doesn't exist, without the quotes

4) Create a string value named "Browsers" (if it doesn't exist) with the value "firefox", without the quote

5) Close regedit

6) Run "wine launcher" from within the game launcher directory

7) Log in successfully now that the launcher opens Firefox

Thanks to Martin Severin Steffensen for the above.

Open Regedit (`wine regedit`)

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver, creating it if it does not exist

Create a new entry named "UseTakeFocus" with value "N"

Thanks to nmapper for this fix.