Can get passed the intro scenes and even into the campains. but starting a skirmish/campain mission or even trying to look at the ship setting causes a CTD and this. am trying to run on win 7 if that helps.

"Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.01 Build 534
SFC3.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module TAL3DEngineR.DLL at 001B:04C9A8E6

EAX=00000000 EBX=0000016D ECX=00001D8C EDX=000001FF ESI=0012F8E0
EDI=0012F8D4 EBP=0012F814 ESP=0012F7A4 EIP=04C9A8E6 FLG=00010246
CS=001B DS=0023 SS=0023 ES=0023 FS=003B GS=0000

001B:04C9A8E6 (0x0012F83C 0x05323C60 0x00000000 0x00000000) TAL3DEngineR.DLL
001B:04C8BAF9 (0x05323C60 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0C810040) TAL3DEngineR.DLL
001B:04C8DAD3 (0x05323C60 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x05323CE0) TAL3DEngineR.DLL
001B:04C83383 (0x056C5CA0 0x0C7960F9 0x00000018 0x00000001) TAL3DEngineR.DLL
001B:04C87497 (0x0C7960F9 0x00000018 0x00000001 0x0C7CFA48) TAL3DEngineR.DLL
001B:004CEA03 (0x0C7CFA48 0x00000000 0x00A4F7B8 0x00000000) SFC3.exe
001B:0049E535 (0x0C953850 0x00A4F7B8 0x0C953888 0x0C95380C) SFC3.exe
001B:0049DA24 (0x004796A6 0x00A4F7B8 0x00A4F228 0x004795F9) SFC3.exe
001B:0047962D (0x00A4F7B8 0x0094A2D8 0x00478D42 0x0094A2D8) SFC3.exe
001B:004795DD (0x00000005 0x76DB2E32 0x016BF170 0x00000000) SFC3.exe
001B:00497BA3 (0x76DB2E32 0x016BF170 0x00000000 0x0012FDEC) SFC3.exe
001B:00479467 (0x00A4F228 0x00000000 0x00405A7F 0x016BF170) SFC3.exe
001B:00479447 (0x0099DE20 0x00407366 0x76DB64C7 0x00631B65) SFC3.exe
001B:004059E0 (0x00400000 0x0023223B 0x00000001 0x00000000) SFC3.exe
001B:00632653 (0x7FFDE000 0x0012FFD4 0x77243A03 0x7FFDE000) SFC3.exe
001B:7553EE6C (0x7FFDE000 0x7EBA5E02 0x00000000 0x00000000) kernel32.dll
001B:77243A03 (0x007B9AB9 0x7FFDE000 0x00000000 0x00000000) ntdll.dll
001B:772439D6 (0x007B9AB9 0x7FFDE000 0x00000000 0x78746341) ntdll.dll
~ " to appear as a message.

any advise/ help is appreciated.

yeah ive tried that already.

Set all graphical settings to lowest and disable the on/off ones, that solved it for me. You can then turn them all on/full once you are in the game. So far I only had this problem during the 4th or 5th Klingon mission (Winds of Change).

For me this happened because of a bad model for one of the possible planets in that mission (it's called PlanetCrater in the model folder).

Thanks for the help, i'd fixed the problem anyway by deleting one of the .dll's. im on win 7 it was causing the issue.

just couldnt work out how to close the thread.

Hiya friend!

I've just encountered a similar problem running this on Win7Pro, and wondering which .dll you deleted and where I can find it?

The exception starts off the same as yours but a bunch of the details differ later in the log.

"Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.01 Build 534
SFC3.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module TAL3DEngineR.DLL at 0023:0409A8E6, QueryInterface()+96748 byte(s)"


I'm not very savvy, so small words would be best :P

Happens for me on Win11 on Winds of Change. Previous solutions haven't worked so far

I know this was 4 days old but i fixed my crash to desktop while running the game with GOG Galaxy by right clicking on starfleet command 3 and installing the update that didn't install automatically when i downloaded the game.

The crash was fixed with the update but you do have to install the update separately it seems.

If not using Galaxy, look in your library under the game and there should be a 4mb patch which should help.