xlushuzdyme21x on 3/10/2004 at 21:28

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i been following this faq for the whole day and i still can't get system shock to work on windows xp. i don't know what i'm doing wrong, i followed all the steps and downloaded all the required programs correctly. but it still won't work! when i open my cdshock.bat file as a notepad, it comes up with:

@echo off
D:\cdrom\cdshock.exe

when on the faq it is supposed to look like:

@echo off
E:\Games\sshock\nolfb.exe
E:\Games\sshock\MOUSE2KV.EXE 640 480 8 8 E:\Games\SSHOCK\dos4gw.exe cdshock.exe

how do i get it to change? do i have to manually go and type all that or is it supposed to change automatically? if so, how? i thought i extracted all the programs right. when you extract the programs, are you supposed to extract them to the system shock main directory? :confused: i also have another problem. when i click the cdshock vdmsound shortcut to play the game, it comes up with this box and says:

VDMS Launchpad - CDSHOCK
The system cannot open COM2 port requested by the application. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

when i chose close, it exits. if i chose ignore, it goes to the main screen of the game but the music is all messed up. it lets me pick the difficulty and then when i go to play it exits out. i think it flahes the "don't salt the fries" message but its not up there long enough to see. i don't know what to do! please help, i love this game and i haven't played it in so long and i'm soo stuck and confused. :confused: but otherwise the faq is very good :thumb:

alienstookmybeer on 15/10/2004 at 16:01

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Finally got this thing working even though I've owned it for years. Played SS 2 several times so always wanted to try this. Absinthetic, if you're still stuck, you're batch file isn't set right. You don't have dos4gw pointed correctly. Remove the c:\sshock\ in front of the cdshock.exe.

Huge thanks to Xenivous for putting this together and also to ethered for helping me put the final piece together when this walkthrough didn't quite work for me (I was getting the crashes with the unsalted fries message... ethered mentioned he just ran it with the modified batch file only... without using VDMSound - might want to try it if you're stuck with this also)

TheNightTerror on 17/10/2004 at 12:43

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;) I think you meant to click on the SS2 FAQ. But, I'm not sure why that would happen, what version is the game now?

Gangsta_H on 17/10/2004 at 13:04

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OWWWWWW>>SOZ i dont know what version of da game ive got but i do know i have a headache. :p

Jake on 20/10/2004 at 21:14

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No matter what I do, I always get this error-

System Shock can no longer run due to a fatal error.
Error code 5001
Execution error
Cannot run directly from CD. Run executable from hard drive.

I'm using the Underdog's CD version. I used Xenvious's SS1 on XP faq, but I just can't get by this error. I installed it with initial.exe in my c:\SystemShock\INST directory to the C:\SystemShock\ directory. I run the C:\SystemShock\CDROM\CDSHOCK.EXE and it pops up a window that gives me this error. I make a batch file that pauses it after it opens it, and I get to see this error. I make a batch file that runs it with MOUSE2KV and DOS4GW and it still doesn't work. I run it with VDMSound and it still doesn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas? I really want to try this game. Please!

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer.