SimplyLaggy: I cant find options.cfg?

Asterix101: If you cannot find the file, you may have a different error. My suggestion would be to reinstall the whole thing, then make sure that the game starts (and crashes) at least once, before trying to edit options.cfg, as it *should* create the cfg file as it starts, before crashing.

It should be located in the same folder as your game files, as long as that folder is writable to you as a user (as opposed to you as an admin). Give write permission to "authenticated users" to the game folder to make sure.

abstractsyntax: I had the same issue. It appears to be related to an incompatibility between BC's supported resolutions and your systems resolution. To solve the problem, I deleted the 'options' cfg file in the 'Star Trek Bridge Commander' directory (same folder as the game exe). This file contains any custom options you've set in the game (including resolution, graphics, bindings, etc), and will be recreated once the game is lunched (sans your old settings, so make a backup of the file before deleting it, if needed). With everything purged, the game started normally. No compatibility settings were used.

Asterix101: So, after much mucking about, the "solution" I found was this:

- Go to your stbc installation folder.

Inside, you *should* find an options.cfg file. If it's not there, open the game and let it crash, and the file should be created.

- Open options.cfg with notepad.

There are better editors for the job, but notepad comes with Windows and is easy to use. Use gedit, or kedit, or vi, or emacs, or nano, or pico, or whatever it is that the children of the Penguin use these days, if you are one.

- Delete all the text.

You may leave the [Sound] section if it exists, but the rest (particularly the [Multiplayer] and [General Options] sections), needs to go: some of those sections contain characters that cannot be edited correctly with notepad, and your game won't start if you muck them up. Deleting everything is safer.

- Add the following section:

[Graphics Options]
Texture Detail|2
Number of Lights|8
MipMaps|1
Display Depth|32
Display Height|1024
Visible Damage|3
LOD Skip|0
Display Width|1280
Fullscreen Mode|0
Effect Detail|3

- Save, start the game.

This *should* allow you to bypass the render error, at which point you should have a game that starts as a 1280x1024 window (which is acceptable if your screen is 1080p). Replace 1280 with 1600 and 1024 with 1200 if your screen is 4k.

The main issue with this is that you may want to manually change your resolution to the one you selected before you start the game, because its window will only take up part of the screen - which works, but is ugly and distracting when you can still see the browser window, or the Galaxy window, or whatever.

HTH.

onedone: Done all this several times, now the game won't even launch. Uninstalled reinstalled every way I could think of.