Drake5 on 19/1/2005 at 21:08
well, I'm using WME, and I got SS1 up and running :thumb: without any extra programs. Burned it to a cd, installed it, set up sound, (SB Audigy 1 DOS drivers on disk) started it up, (the intro worked how it's supposed to) started New Game and...
Salt the Fries, 3007, not enough memory. Damn.
After much confused trial & error, I found the problem.
When I max out the memory, hit apply and OK, the "Total: Conventional memory" reverts back to 'auto'. This means if I want to play it, I have to hit apply, but NOT OK. :weird:
Inconvenient, but made worse because I can't run it through the DOS prompt. (I have the "It freezes when I hit the 'X' box, resulting in a hard restart" problem, you see.)
Does anybody know how to make that setting stick?
Drat on 20/1/2005 at 08:57
I think you are setting the memory too high. Unless you have a really odd sound card, you don't need more than 600 or so. 560-580 works well on my old clunker.
ToxicFrog on 20/1/2005 at 16:53
@Ajare: no idea, but at a guess I'd say it might be scanning for serial mice. Can't think of any other reason SS1 would want the serial ports.
@Plague: Is the error from INITIAL.EXE, or from VDMS itself? I do know that there's nothing called 'INITIALD' on my copy, and it works fine...
@tempest2000: I had a similar problem, but it was fixed by using dos4gw-1.97.2; if you've already tried that, I don't know anything else to use.
@Drake5: I don't know how to make the memory setting stick. Fortunately, I do know how to solve the hard-lock problem.
For some reason (I don't know why, and AFAIK no-one else does either), running SS1 twice in a row will cause it to exit cleanly the second time.
So, if you're running it from the shell by hand, after exiting SS1 but before exiting the shell, you just run it again and quit from the main menu with alt+x.
If you're using CDSHOCK.BAT, just duplicate the last line so that it calls CDSHOCK.EXE twice, then quit from the main menu as before when it starts the second time.
Drake5 on 20/1/2005 at 18:28
Progress has been made! Setting the memory to 560 makes it stick AND run. Thanks Drat.
As for the freeze, editing the .BAT file works too! Thanks Toxic.
I get to play SS1! Iget to play SS1! :cheeky:
Tri-Focal on 11/3/2005 at 17:45
I'm setting up System Shock 1 now and everything is going well. But Nok's patch for XP is named cdshock_xp.rar. I guessed that I should just rename it cdshock.exe but it looks like I guessed wrong. Launchpad tells me it's not a valid executable. SO..... how do I put on this patch?
Trifocal
TheNightTerror on 11/3/2005 at 17:56
That's a common mistake to make, actually, I made it way back when, too. You need to download (
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm) WinRar, and use it to extract the .exe file from the archive.
jbairdjr on 16/3/2005 at 01:25
I was told to put this here so here it goes:
It's almost (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85834&highlight=DOS4gw.exe) a year since I tried to get System Shock 1 running and I'm still having the same problems
--Sound and video are very choppy.
--Game crashes as soon as I pick up stuff (not including the medkit).
I'd really appreciate some help here. Mucho thanks in advance! :)
ToxicFrog on 21/3/2005 at 14:54
First of all, just off the top of my head -
- no idea what the sound/video issue is, I've never had anything but smooth performance out of SS1 on any OS except when running in DOSBOX - assuming it works in the first place, of course
- the crash-on-pickup thing sounds like a dos4gw issue, but (at least in my experience) those aren't so consistent, they strike without warning and without pattern.
- However, I do know that SS1 can be made to run on win2k, because I'm doing so right now. Just lasered Earth, in fact.
Having looked through your original thread, it looks like all kinds of things went unamusingly wrong when you were setting it up. Have you tried doing a completely clean install - purging your system of all traces of VDMS and SS1, then installing the latest VDMS, then SS1, etc, in almost-accordance with the FAQ*?
* it's slightly outdated following changes to VDMS, but still works if you adjust for things like the fact that the Launchpad is no longer seperate
Publius on 27/3/2005 at 23:35
Can I just get this straight....How do I stop the window after closing SS1 from crashing the computer? What is the definitive answer? I am running it with the hacked version of CDSHOCK.
ToxicFrog on 28/3/2005 at 04:48
@Publius: answered (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95251) here (and lots of other places, but that's most recent).
@Daxim: I could have sworn that the SS1 hang-on-exit workaround was in your FAQ, but it doesn't appear to be, and it really should be.
