Bjossi on 7/3/2007 at 14:13
The compatibility mode is one of the random fixes. I wouldn't enable it until you have tried every other solution available, since the comp. mode seems to do more harm than good in most cases. :erm:
DDRFreak21 on 15/3/2007 at 07:27
I went through about 2 hours of research to finally get SS2 running, Now the game seems to run fine except that it won't show any enemies...
I can see everything else but the only time the enemies are visible is when they are towards the edge of my vision.
Any help?
Bjossi on 16/3/2007 at 00:28
That is odd, never heard of that before.
Did you try stuff like adding the line safe_texture_manager at the bottom of cam.cfg?
Or did you make the game mod ready? Things can go wrong with that process.
DDRFreak21 on 16/3/2007 at 03:50
Yeah, i've tried the safe textures and it's a clean install so there shouldn't be any issues.
I'm running XP and an fx5200.
Bjossi on 16/3/2007 at 13:23
What video driver version do you have?
limitz on 17/3/2007 at 00:37
I know the game has some compatability issues with XP, and it seems I have succumbed to this also.
I run the exe, and skip the cut scenes, and start a new game in the normal way. I am then taken to the ‘loading screen’. The loading gets to 100%, the sound is there, but then I get a black screen. I also get the following error on my desktop: “ERROR: Direct32 device drive does not accurately report texture memory usage. Contact your 3d accelerator vendor for updated drivers.”
I am running Microsoft XP SP2. AMD Athlong 64 processor 3700+ 2.21ghz 2GB ram. My graphics card is ‘NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT. Driver date: 22/10/2006, driver version 6.14.10.9371’.
Is there any advice you guys can give me to help me get the game to work.
Cheers.
I have tried inserting the safe_texture_manager into the cam shock and user cfg files, but to no avail.
I'm so confused about what to do.
limitz on 17/3/2007 at 17:02
I really would love to get this great game working :(
Bjossi on 17/3/2007 at 17:19
You say you added safe_texture_manager to multiple files, it's an unlikely solution, but try remove the line from all files except cam.cfg.
Doctor Kazefa on 17/3/2007 at 17:30
Hi everyone,
I've read a good portion of this thread (not everything... that'd be ridiculous!), and I don't think anyone else has quite the same problem as me. After consulting with this thread to get the game running, I started playing. Everything worked really well until I got my hands on a weapon. I fired once; the projectile hit a wall fine... I fired twice, and the game froze with the marine sergeant's voice repeating the same two words over and over.
Any suggestions? This happens also if I take the Psionics route and try and use those abilities. Just running around doesn't seem to crash the game.
Thanks,
Doctor Kazefa
limitz on 17/3/2007 at 18:45
Thank you for your reply Bjossi. Unfortunately I could not get that to resolve the problem. I am so upset because I badly want to play System Shock 2. I've never been happier/as scared as when I have played SS2.
