Bjossi on 4/4/2007 at 19:22
Is there a folder named 'current' in your SS2 main folder?
snauty on 4/4/2007 at 20:17
no. is that good or bad?
Bjossi on 4/4/2007 at 20:33
Very bad. Create it and hopefully things will be normal.
snauty on 4/4/2007 at 21:35
aha! that solved this problem. still there are others/new ones, but for some i'll check the red topic.
but this one seems to be unsolved there: i have sound but only the ambient stuff and beeps. no in game voices like emails and logs.
snauty on 4/4/2007 at 21:54
the other two problem were these and i followed these steps, but now the game crashes when starting:
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My cutscenes/videos do not show!The Codecs have been uninstalled/corrupted. Reinstall them by double-clicking the file Iv5play.exe on the cd.
Alternatively Press Start > Press Run > type in> regsvr32 "c:\your\path\to\shock2\LGVID.AX" and press enter where c:\your\path\to\shock2 is the path you actually installed Shock2 to.
i got a positive message though when i did it.
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I'm using the Rebirth mod and my weapons/characters don't show? AKA How to make your install Mod Friendly! * Create a new folder inside the shock2 one called res.
* Move all the files ending in .crf to the newly created folder.
* Open up install.cfg from the shock2 folder using notepad.
* Alter the resname_base line to include the new folder. For example resname_base c:\games\shock2\+d:\shock2 would become resname_base c:\games\shock2\res+d:\shock2
* Save the file!
* Unzip the rebirth zip file to the a folder called mesh inside the Shock 2 folder. (this step is for Rebirth only)
here i'm not sure what to do because the original line in the install.cfg went like:
resname_base c:\games\shock2 +d:\shock2there was no "\" in front of the "+", but this changing method suggests to put a "\" right in there, and therefore just before the "res+d", where there wasn't one to begin with. confusing...
then i cut the mesh file out, to start the game without the rebirth mod, but still crashing.
snauty on 4/4/2007 at 21:57
some .crf files in the PATCH and the RES folder seem to be the same. is that ok?
Bjossi on 4/4/2007 at 23:01
When you make the game mod ready, all that you are supposed to do is to move all the CRFs from the main folder to the res one you created. Then in install.cfg make the resname_base line look like this.
resname_base F:\Games\SystemShock 2\res+G\shock
But remember that even though you don't want to install mods, the game will work fine using this file structure.
And a small note; when moving the CRFs to the res folder, you are supposed to move them, not copy and paste. Because if you have CRFs in the main folder, they will be useless until you remove the \res addition from install.cfg.
snauty on 5/4/2007 at 00:59
Ok, thanks again for everything. I started again from scratch. Took me 5 minutes this time and almost everything's fine. Even the cutscenes are back. There's only the audio thing. I still haven't got the voices in-game, only the FX and the ambient score. But audio is fine and complete with voices in the intro cutscene.
I've installed the a3d drivers. I ran the iv5play thing from the CD. I can go up to 16 channels but i can't turn on the hardware accelerator although it's highlighted and i can't turn on the EAX setting, which is not highlighted. If this is necessary.
Ah yes, in the cam.cfg file, i fiddled with the sfx device up until 6. There was one setting I could turn on the HW accelerator, but then I didn't have any sound at all.
Bjossi on 5/4/2007 at 01:04
Try this to fix the audio.
1) Click 'Start'
2) Click 'Run'
3) Type dxdiag and click Ok
4) Go to the 'Sound' tab
5) Find the 'Hardware Sound Acceleration Level' slider and move it down a notch or two
If it will not change anything or make things even worse, just reverse the changes.
snauty on 5/4/2007 at 01:31
Hm, makes no difference.
So the HW accelerator must be on?
But it's more than ok for now, gotta get some sleep. Trying again tomorrow. ;)
about the cam file:
; $Header: r:/prj/cam/src/RCS/cam.cfg 1.17 1999/06/28 14:38:52 mwhite Exp $
; hey, which game is this
game shock
; general configs
include_user_cfg user.cfg
editor_include_dromed_cfg dromed.cfg
; game specific paths/configs
dark_include_install_cfg darkinst.cfg
shock_include_install_cfg install.cfg
; set trait cache to include concretes
trait_cache_flags 2
sfx_vol_music -59
skip_intro
sfx_device 1
game_screen_depth 16
game_hardware 1
game_screen_flags 13
sfx_vol_2d 0
sfx_channels 16
game_full_screen 1
master_volume -59
sfx_vol_3d -59
game_screen_size 1024 768
gamma 1.
is this correct? sfx_vol_2d 0 looks suspicious to me. but what do i know.
