How To Troubleshoot

Need to know how to troubleshoot "Star Trek: Armada II: Fleet Operations"? With new operating systems, video cards, and other computer upgrades coming out onto the market, players may find that their older games are becoming unstable or that the will get a glitch more often than not. "Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations" is the 2001 sequel to "Star Trek Armada", a PC based strategy game. A game that is nine years old may have issues running on new PC platforms such as Windows 7 and may require troubleshooting.

1. Update the game. Updates to "Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations" help keep the game running smoothly, especially if there are changes or additions that had been made since the first release. These updates can usually be found and downloaded via the game itself or from the manufacturer's website. You can also sometimes find them on game patch sites.
2. Reboot the computer. Most issues can easily be resolved by rebooting the computer. For example, if your game freezes and you can't return to the desktop, restart your computer, which helps to stop the problem that is happening (usually two commands coming in at the same time or colliding together). When the computer comes back on, try restarting the game.
3. Admin mode. For the newer Windows operating systems of Vista or Windows 7, running programs in Administrator mode usually helps. To do this, right click on the icon for "Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations" and choose the option to "run as administrator".
4. Try reinstalling. Sometimes installing a game or program doesn't completely finish or some files were missed, etc. If you notice that "Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations" is having issues, try uninstalling the game and then reinstalling it. This allows for a new copy to run, hopefully getting rids of the trouble.

Knowing how to troubleshoot "Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations" easily involves a few steps to make sure that the older game will run correctly on your new computer. If the steps above don't solve the issue, there are alternatives, such a using virtual machines to try and run the game.