How to run System Shock 2 on Linux (Ubuntu)?

claydoh on 26/9/2006 at 21:06

I have not been able to play SS2 in wine or Cedega for quite some time now, but I think it is in my case as much a driver issue, as I could not get it to run after a n upgrade on my nvidia drivers in Ubuntu somewhere in the 7xxxx series of drivers. If I don't get a crash, I get an "video hardware not supported" type of error.

I sorely miss pllaying that game :(

padawan on 27/9/2006 at 08:14

Quote Posted by blaydes99

Hasn't anyone ever heard of Cedega?

Of course we have :) But it's commercial, non opensource and has a stupid name, so we geeks prefer Wine :D

It works on cedega btw. :)

blaydes99 on 27/9/2006 at 15:46

Quote Posted by padawan

Quote Posted by blaydes99

Hasn't anyone ever heard of Cedega?

Of course we have :) But it's commercial, non opensource and has a stupid name, so we geeks prefer Wine :D

It works on cedega btw. :)

Cedega itself is not commercial, but I see what you are getting at. You could simply pay $5 for a month of membership with Transgaming, and then cancel. The current version of Cedega will not need to be updated if you plan to play it with SS2.

The alternative is to use an earlier version of Wine that supports SS2 better. Don't use the latest version if it messes things up...

MrTrip on 29/9/2006 at 01:07

Quote Posted by padawan

Quote Posted by blaydes99

Hasn't anyone ever heard of Cedega?

Of course we have :) But it's commercial, non opensource and has a stupid name, so we geeks prefer Wine :D

It works on cedega btw. :)

I have Cedega....I gave in because I got sick of beating my head over Steam.

I guess I will have to run it from there.

William Dojinn on 17/12/2007 at 16:40

Any luck getting Shock 2 to work under the new(er) versions of WINE?

Hemebond on 18/12/2007 at 06:50

Quote Posted by William Dojinn

Any luck getting Shock 2 to work under the new(er) versions of WINE?

I'm planning on trying again soon. I'm quite curious as to whether or not (http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/11/directx-90c-on-linux-with-wine.html) installing DirectX 9c under Wine helps at all.

William Dojinn on 18/12/2007 at 15:16

Well if that works out you'll make many happy shockers, at least till the opendark project becomes useable. :)

William Dojinn on 26/12/2007 at 18:47

er...hello? Anything to report on DX9.0c+Wine?

Hemebond on 9/2/2008 at 02:34

Okay, I've got System Shock 2 running on Ubuntu Linux under Wine 0.9.54. I'll also be creating a page on (http://shock.plebmedia.co.nz/) my Wiki with instructions.

First of all, it's not necessary to install DirectX to play System Shock 2. I have had it working before without it. However following that tutorial will give you appropriate DLL overrides.

Anyway, if you follow my instructions on a (http://shock.plebmedia.co.nz/Installation#Manual_Installation) manual installation and (using cmd.exe through Wine) then you just need to delete lgvid.ax and run

Code:

~$ cd .wine/drive_c/path/to/sshock2/
~/.wine/drive_c/path/to/sshock2$ wine shock2.exe

Issues so far are* poor performance; and* constantly visible cursorIt seems the container sprite rendering issue it used to have has been fixed.

Update: Argh! It's crashing on me now when trying to load medsci. I remember having this problem last time. Something to do with hybrids and allobjs.osm. I never found a fix.

Cyberpunkgothic1 on 9/2/2008 at 23:50

can this be done by xen of suse, if I have a partition with w98se?

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