System Shock II on Windows XP?

[Skeff]

Hey there--
I installed System Shock II on a Windows XP system, but it doesn't run correctly. I can access the opening interface and intro movie, but after that the game crashes, with a message popping up that says the graphics are not correctly enabled or somesuch. Any ideas?

 

[Ortchel]

Hmm. I'm not sure.

Is this a legit copy or did you dl it?

If so you can get another that (I know from experience) works just fine from the Underdogs.

Here's a link fer ya:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=3924

Hope that helps

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

They took it down from the underdogs.

You might want to try it in 98 compatibility mode.

 

[Jinxed]

Works fine for me, patched or unpatched.

 

[dipdipdip]

I think this should help:

Running System Shock 2 on Windows 2000 or Windows XP
How to Install
#Press the Start Button
#Press theRun button.
#In the box type x:/setup.exe -Lgntforce Where x is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.
#Press Enter
#Follow the onscreen prompts.


If not, there's more stuff like that here:

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.p ... adid=60930

 

[Ortchel]

Er .. sorry about the botched link, that site sure is fickle.

 

[Grefter]

I had trouble getting it to run for a little while, but I found when I rolled back to a previous set of graphics drivers that it worked (I think it was just the set that came with the my card that were there). However you may not be having a graphics problem like I did. Still it could be worth a try.

 

[Flink]

I tried to install this from my old cd the other day. But the game wont run, choosing instead to complain about me not having DirectX. (I got the latest version which seems to be incompatible with many older games.)

Any tips?

 

[Ortchel]

Ugh, yeah. DirectX 9 is a real pain with 'older' games, especially coupled with WinXP. I've given up fighting and just installed WinME on my machine. I'd recommend that, if you can stand it. And of course, make sure you have the latest drivers for your card and what have you.

It truly is a battle getting 'old' games to run on these new fangled snaggletooths.

 

[karabass]

SS2 under XP

i tried hard to run SS2 under XP, it stopped with DX error. Finally i found on some forume how to fix it. I installed SS2, applied official patch and added a line to SHOCK.CFG. The line is here:
safe_texture_manager

thats all, now works pretty good.

 

[Eclecticist]

I installed SS2 on a DX9 XP system a week ago and everything worked perfectly.