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Jan 19, 09 03:35PMJavelin

Installed it again and played through twice..One of the best game ever made for the PC!! Looks great on XP @ 1600x1200.

Jan 14, 09 10:51PMMaddawg

I suggest anyone wanting to play ss2 give up.
You will get the same experience taking some kind of new-age methamphetamine. It's just hiding in shadowy corners of a spaceship terrified out of your mind. i couldn't sleep for weeks after playing it.

Jan 14, 09 10:33PMMaddawg

I just saw this whole page, and I'm letting everyone know, if they're interested, the reason it does not run (SS2) is because of hardware, not operating systems. You can run it fine with XP, with an nVidia TNT 2 (16mb) a 1ghz cpu (cos it has no hyperthreading, which ss2 doesn't support) and 512mb RAM.

Sep 27, 07 12:41PMJavelin

Well I had most of the problems some of you had getting SS2 to work in XP but finally got it going a few hours ago.
I have an overclocked e6600 @3.3GHz, OC'ed 8800 GTX, XFi Extream Music sound card and a fully updated Win XP w/SP2. System shock 2 runs beautifully
@ 1600x1200 resolution with SHTUP and Rebirth mods. Got alot of good info and files at http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php.

Installed SS2 with the x:\setup -lgntforce to C:\Sshock2.
Ran SS2Toolv2.3 from above web site..selected all options except for the mods.
Ran SS2 Mod Manager from above site.
Installed SHTUP.beta6 and Rebirth mods...mod Manager makes everything for you automatically.

The graphics are terrific; a lot better then I remember when I played SS2 when it first came out (the cutsceans are still low res).

Between the SS2Tools and SS2 Mod Manager all necessary files needed are installed in the correct places including the proper "install.cfg" and "safe_texture_manager " and updates.
Anyway, it solved my black screen problem and before that the something "odinal in kernal32" error message.

Hope this helps.

Aug 30, 07 03:02PMHyperSniper

What worked for me (and I tried pretty much everything posted in this thread) was downloading and using the something called the Koyla Tool

http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php/topic,392

Now, I downloaded it and ran it after I had made all my changes (messing with the cfg file, new exes, and a bunch of other stuff), and it didn't work. However, after I did as it said and ran it after a clean install, it worked.

I don't know exactly what my problem was, but I've got a hyperthreaded P4 running on an XP machine which SS2 doesn't seem to like either, but I did everything the guides said to fix those things and nothing worked. This thing fixes a large number of problems; and all that I care is that I can play SS2. I'm not going isolate the variable I changed to make it work. Try it and see if it works for you.

This message was edited by HyperSniper on Aug 30 2007.

Aug 24, 07 05:44PMCarpenter100

I have been looking for about an hour and half, rather furiously, to the solution to this problem:

When I start the game, after I hit "New Game" and "Start", I get a flash of a loading screen, then a black screen, and a crash message. I'm pretty sure it's skipping Cutscenes too.

I have:

1. Installed official 2.3 patch
2. Installed XP patch
3. Added "safe_texture_manager"
4. Mounted the game ISO to my PC (Yes, I know I'm evil)

I really need help here, cause I am getting really, really frustrated.

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Apr 22, 07 12:04AMMr.Gone

Mr. Frazer, you are a saint. I had tried downloading that file from that dead site in the beginning of the year and given up all hope. Now lets see if it makes a diff (keeping fingers crossed)

Aug 17, 06 11:10PMCurs0r

"safe_texture_manager" was all I had to do.

Aug 15, 06 08:31AMRobert Frazer

For those who are unable to obtain the Windows XP/2000 fix patch due to the inaccessability of hollowbomb.com, there is a mirror of it available at the following address:

http://www.brave.net.nz/shock2_xp_2000_fix.zip

I hope that's of assistance to everyone.

Now, I regret to say that I'm in the same position as Omegano. With shkpatch.exe and the fix patch both installed, and the config file adjusted to include the "safe_texture_manager" line (does this have to be placed in any particular position in the file or can it be just added onto the end?), the game will run - when you begin a new game, the intro cinematic will play, and the loading screen appear to load the game proper - however, on completion, there's only a completely black, unresponsive screen. Can I echo the call to ask if there's any way to cross this hurdle?

You'd think that they didn't want us to play the game at this rate... is SHODAN hiding amongst the dataflows of the internet and confounding us so that we don't uncover its secrets?

Jul 15, 06 02:32AMbeasticus

quote Berzerk
Now I keep seeing the DL for the XP patch and the offical update, but I'm having a different prob. I can't install the offical update so I can install the XP patch either, It says I need 1.15 befor I can install 2.3, I haven't play SS2 in a few months because it wouldn't play, wasn't till recently I found out you need a patch for XP. I have looked around everywhere and have exhusted all my resources and am writing this message very fustraded at 3:30 A.M.. Would some one please give me a link to the 1.15 patch. Thank you.

Same problem here, any helpers?

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Apr 03, 03 03:40PMekak