Sypha Nadon on 22/12/2005 at 03:40
I played around with the sound stuff a bit. The only decent music I could get came from General MIDI, and I tried out most of the digital sound cards. Now there was sound on the title screen and the intro, but it was still pretty choppy. The graphics on the title screen are really ugly looking too... I'm not sure how to go about fixing the resolution, as there doesn't seem to be that option on the main menu.
I do have a VDMS sound shortcut also, yet my game still seems to crash when I try to get past the new game screen... Only when I try running it from the shortcut, I get no error message at all.
TheNightTerror on 22/12/2005 at 03:57
Quote Posted by Sypha Nadon
I played around with the sound stuff a bit. The only decent music I could get came from General MIDI, and I tried out most of the digital sound cards. Now there was sound on the title screen and the intro, but it was still pretty choppy.
Choppy? VDMS sound should keep everything fairly even. :erm:
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The graphics on the title screen are really ugly looking too... I'm not sure how to go about fixing the resolution, as there doesn't seem to be that option on the main menu.
Yeah, you have to get in game before you can fix it up. You'll have to bear the ugliness. ;)
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I do have a VDMS sound shortcut also, yet my game still seems to crash when I try to get past the new game screen... Only when I try running it from the shortcut, I get no error message at all.
Hmmm. Okay, get the properties on CDSHOCK.exe, and max out all the memory settings. Did you remember to replace CDSHOCK.exe with Mok's modified version when you reinstalled?
Sypha Nadon on 22/12/2005 at 05:46
Okay, I fooled around with the patch and it created a new shortcut. Using this, I am able to play the game. The digital sounds okay, and the music sounds better now, though I might turn it off, something I almost always did with System Shock 2 (more realistic experience that way). The mouse cursor seems to be very slow, but I suppose I'll get used to it. The interface is a little awkward sans mouse look, but DOOM didn't have mouse look back then either, so no big loss. I can see how this game can have a big learning curve... there's so many options and words on the screen and what not.
Thanks again, I'll keep my eyes open for any further problems.
TheNightTerror on 22/12/2005 at 06:19
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The mouse cursor seems to be very slow, but I suppose I'll get used to it.
You can do one of two things to fix that. You can open your mouse properties, and jack the acceleration there, or use Mouse2kv to jack the speed. If you can get the settings right, I'd go with the latter.
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Thanks again, I'll keep my eyes open for any further problems.
All righty, glad to hear you got it running. :thumb: Have fun, insect. :devil:
Chimpy Chompy on 26/12/2005 at 21:43
Well, 2 years late I finally sat down and followed this FAQ... and got the game running. Wahay!
One thing I've noted: is it just me or do humanoid mutants respawn faster than they used to on level 1? I'm sure they never used to come at me this often before. Although it has meant I walked off L1 with 45 med patches.
[edit] observation: the full screen map goes back to 320x200 so is very difficult to use with that mouse-speed app. Also the game crashes when I try leaving the map.
Tark on 26/12/2005 at 22:21
Hi there. I'm having some trouble with the FAQ's final steps.
1) Am I just supposed to drop Mok's xp patch named "cdshock_xp.rar" into the c:\sshock directory as is, or ... it seemed like it should be renamed cdshock.exe, but then how does it become an executable?
2) When I found the dos4gw download that included three versions of 1.97, I couldn't rename any copies of it to "dos4gw.exe"... it always complained that the file was in use by some other program, - I don't see how it can be... so what I'm trying so far is another "dos4gws" download that includes only 1.8, 1.92 and 1.95, and I'm starting by trying 1.8.
3) Ok, I'm good up until step 10, right-clicking on Mok's "cdshock.exe" (which is what makes me worry about that in 1))... mine is still "cdshock_xp.rar" and when I right-click it, there's no Memory Tab as called for in the FAQ.
Any help greatly appreciated.. haven't played the greatest game ever since like 1996.
Furthermore I can't delete any copies of the file "1_97" version of dos4gw for the same "already in use" reason. Ack!
Chimpy Chompy on 26/12/2005 at 22:29
You need winrar to extract the exe from cdshock_xp.rar.
Tark on 26/12/2005 at 23:52
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Tark on 27/12/2005 at 01:49
Quote Posted by TheNightTerror]You can do one of two things to fix that. You can open your mouse properties, and jack the acceleration there, or use Mouse2kv to jack the speed. If you can get the settings right, I'd go with the latter. \QUOTE
Well, I'm almost to the point Sypha was at... I ignored the COM errors and such and have pretty much the same behavior as others have described, i.e. entering into the game with no sound or music and super-slow mouse in 640 res. How does one use Mouse2kv to jack up the speed?
TheNightTerror on 27/12/2005 at 05:43
Well, here's my SS1 CDSHOCK.bat file:
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@echo off
C:\SSHOCK\mouse2kv.exe 800 600 12 12 cdshock.exe
Obviously, you need mouse2kv.exe in your SS1 directory, and if you don't have a high-res version of SS1 installed, you should have something like "640 480 10 10" instead. Other than that, it oughta work. Did you properly configure the sound when you installed the game and such?
