The King of Style on 5/11/2003 at 22:15
Following the guide, I can get the game running but with no sound. I have a C-Media 8738 onboard sound, and then an 8738 on my sound card. Does it matter which I use? Where do I find what IRQ and such my sound card is on within Windows 2000? If I can find that, I'll try entering that data by hand for the sound cards.
To "setup sound system" when you run with VDMS, do you use the file from the cd or the one in the SSHOCK directory on your computer?
Asus A7v8x
AMD Athlon 2600
GeForce4 Ti4400
Windows 2000 Pro
Muchas gracias :-)
TheNightTerror on 7/11/2003 at 20:42
First of all, I give a huge hug to XenivouS for putting this together...I got the game working like a dream on my new super computer after going through the FAQ twice, once to see if it would help me run it, then once again when I got SS1 and wanted to play. Then, I thought I'd get it running on my laptop too, so I can take it in a dark corner of a room and get really into the game. After all, hell, what can go wrong with it since it's working on one computer?
*starts laughing
To make a long story short: my laptop is possessed, and it's not happy with the fact I want a replacement for it. I followed the FAQ through, doing the same as with the computer it works on. However, I hit a roadblock face first once I reached step 8. That was probably when my laptop realized I was about to get what I wanted, and that wasn't gonna happen. I went to load the configuration thing to create the new shortcut.......then things went bad. There wasn't a 'Run with VDMS' option with a musical note in front of it.....so I picked the one without it. Not the smoothest move I made. Now, everything I try to load in DOS gives me the same error message:
ERROR: An Extended Memory Manager is already installed.
XMS Driver not installed.
Then, after a bit of copyright info, I'm sent to the C:\ prompt. I can't type anything, the only way to escape is to just close the window, after telling it I'm sure I want to close it. I get that with every System Shock 1 related thing I try to run, all my other computer games in DOS stopped working ages ago so I can't test to see if it's an overall DOS problem. I was able to open the C: prompt from the start menu, but I didn't go any farther than that. I wasn't going to give up without a fight, it didn't take me long to clue in that the computer than can play the game might come in handy. I copied the directory System Shock was saved into on the friendlier computer and tried to put it on the unfriendly computer. I tried copying the CDSHOCK file that I was able to create on the friendly computer onto the other one......but that didn't work. I'm not sure what to do, or if I should even bother trying......after all apparently it doesn't detect a digital card and I'm guessing that means Shodan's threats will fall on deaf ears. My disobediant laptop has a Pentium II 364 megahertz processer, and 64 megs of ram. Don't bother scolding me for installed XP to begin with, I was sick of 98 crashing 3 times a day, now it doesn't crash but some features won't work.
So......any tips? It's not urgent or anything, I'd just like to know that I really can have the last laugh with possessed computers.....thanx for bothering to read....although I can bet a few people resemble this guy :bored: and if there was already info on this then the search thingy doesn't work so well :idea:
MediocreSlacker on 8/11/2003 at 04:00
Ok, I am going through all these steps, but it looks like I missed something, because when I open up my CDSHOCK.BAT it doesn't look like it is supposed to:
@echo off
E:\Games\sshock\nolfb.exe
E:\Games\sshock\MOUSE2KV.EXE 640 480 8 8 E:\Games\SSHOCK\dos4gw.exe cdshock.exe
Instead it looks like this:
@echo off
D:\cdrom\cdshock.exe
D is my CD drive. Did I miss any steps?
Drat on 8/11/2003 at 07:27
Those are the modifications you need to make to it. Just make sure to keep the correct drive letters for your system.
Sneaky Acolyte on 23/11/2003 at 04:14
Quote:
Originally posted by Shaundakahl I've searched over the forums but didn't really find an answer for this problem.
I got the intro for SS1 to work w/ good audio. The ingame audio and video is fine... but I can't play in 640 x 480 rez. When I switch to it, the screen becomes incredibly garbled and there is no way to play. Simply cannot be done; it's a chore to get the cursor back over another rez button to change back. Finally, I can get it done... only to discover that the cursor took a hike! No more cursor back in normal resolution. I have to restart the DOS program to get it back.
Does anyone have a clue what might causing it or how to fix it?
I've followed this FAQ to a T and everything works fine, I just wish to play in the higher resolution.
-Frustrated Shaundakahl
Was anyone able to figure this one out? I'm having the same problem on Win XP. But thankfully, after the chore of getting the cursor back over the rez button and changing it back, I can play normally. I don't have the same problem he does of needed to restart the DOS program to get it back. The garbled screen also affects the cut scenes, but changing "lowres_cutscenes" in the config to 1 makes it work just fine, albeit they are low res.
Bronko on 25/11/2003 at 16:35
Thats great to here at least some people, made Shock 1 run on their systems - but unfortunately not on mine. I just cant see any difference between cdshock.exe and the xp-cdshock.exe; and using VDMS seems not to help also. A blank black screen is all I see! :tsktsk:
I dont want to ask if anybody could help (my english is way to bad to explain my problems anyways) but what i wanna know is, if Shock 1 is working on all your systems after setting it up like described here? (with working I mean anything else than a blank screen)
BTW: my first post here: hello everyone!
And maybe i should mention my specs:
CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2000+
GPU: GF4 TI4200, newest drivers
BOARD: Asus A7V8X, VIA KT 400, newest drivers
OS: WinXP Pro Service Pack 1
Mikeu on 28/11/2003 at 16:53
It wants to have My COM1 and COM2 ports before it'll open SS1 using evyerhting you've mentioned already. COM1 is my mouse due to my PS/2 ports being screwed but I don't *HAVE* a COM2..any suggestions? oh yea..I can ge tthe DOS version to work until I actually try to play. I can get the opening to play then get to the menu then I hit new game choose difficulty settings and then *BOOM*...NOT ANYMORE! I redid all the steps..got it no sound..did it again and got It WITH full sounds o___o it ROCKS! ARIGATOU MINNA! Ja matta ne minna. *runs off to play*
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2.030422-1633)
System Manufacturer: Compaq
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.2GHz
Memory: 192MB RAM
Card name: POWERCOLOR RADEON 9000 PRO EVIL COMMANDO
Chip type: Radeon 9000 AGP (0x4966)
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
*NEWEST DRIVERS*
j0e_x on 1/12/2003 at 18:44
hello,
got the game to run alright on win2k, following all the instructions here-except the options for the hi-res modes are blanked out! anybody see that before? thanks! j0e
Macattack on 9/12/2003 at 19:58
All this to open a weenie little game?!?!?!
:nono:
Drat on 17/12/2003 at 09:39
Yes, in a stupid OS that was created 6 years or so later, and does not have a proper DOS system. I mean, what were Looking Glass thinking?!?
Moron.
