Darklightr on 17/10/2008 at 05:50
I'm running Windows XP with SP2. I have a GeForce FX 6800 OC with the latest Nvidia driver. My processor is a Pentium 4 HT.
I installed System Shock 2 and installed the SS2Tool v. 2.6 with all the patches, bug fixes, DDfix, and widescreen support. System Shock 2 loads fine, but when I click "New Game" the intro video plays and after the loading screen, the game (still running) hangs and shows my desktop. I then have to end the process to return to my desktop.
Prior to this, I had tried manually making fixes that were suggested on these forums such as safe_texture_manager. I even rolled back to an older Nvidia driver that someone else had success with, but no luck. I then uninstalled System Shock 2, did a clean install, and tried the SS2Tool.
Is there something I'm missing? Something else that I can do to get this game to run? I'd love to finally play it. :)
Ninjit_Turak on 21/10/2008 at 21:29
yeah, there is something you're missing... the massive sticky thread on EXACTLY this subject.
swaaye on 30/10/2008 at 23:30
Hummm. Well you should probably try to run the game at each stage and see which patch is messing it up. It will run with just SS2Tool and the safe_texture_manager ini change.
Your 6800 actually doesn't need DDFix at all because that series still dithers 16-bit color just fine. Once you get to GeForce 8 or Radeon HD, things get ugly cuz they dropped dithering. See, upgrading isn't always for the better!! :)
So skip DDFix entirely, at least for now. It still has one useful option, that being anisotropic filtering, but you can also force that in the NV control panel. Both DDFix and the widescreen mod can cause crashes if not set up right and I think that is your problem.
