Wuggles on 20/6/2003 at 16:52
Speaking of off topic... A moderator should delete all posts from haunt-of-doom down.
David on 20/6/2003 at 17:06
I'm not here to stop you lot looking like idiots, you're supposed to be able to do that yourselves.
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<I>Originally posted by David</i>
If I removed offtopic posts from this thread, I would have to do it for all threads. I would be old and grey before I finished :pKoki on 22/6/2003 at 18:34
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Solution:
Locate a safedisc unwrapper, and run it on the
shock2.icd file to generate an unwrapped EXE,
this should solve the problem.
And what the heck is and where I can find the 'safedisc unwrapper'?
[Edit]Nevermind anymore.
Koki on 23/6/2003 at 18:43
Ok, this IS a bump. My original post is above. I thought that this thread felt down so far that nobody sees it. I tried e-mailing Ninjit_Turak, but his e-mail includes space, so my e-mail sender gets fooled.
This is a helpful thread, could you stick it, David?
[Edit]Nevermind anymore.
David on 23/6/2003 at 18:46
90% of the FAQ part is already stickied in the FAQ I wrote.
The Ranger on 25/6/2003 at 18:38
Ummm... not to burst anyone's bubble, but I've just about always played SS2 under XP and have never encountered any of these problems. Perhaps it can't always be chalked up to the operating system?
Wuggles on 25/6/2003 at 20:18
It's not always the OS' fault. Actually, its never just the OS' fault. Its just that the OS makes other things behave differently, which causes problems.
It causes the same problems in most things though, and it is XP/2000 that causes the most trouble, which is why this thread is named accordingly.
It may be that XP doesn't like your amd 1.1GHz thunderbird, but it's the same problem with a 1.2GHz thunderbird. Thus, they have the same solution. The thread would be called something like "Problem with xp and Thunderbird" not "Problem with amd 1.1GHz" (i'm just making that up, there is no problem)
Koki, do you understand what to do or not?
Hardcore-Evil on 26/6/2003 at 11:52
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Originally posted by Ninjit_Turak Duel CPU Systems/Hyperthreading Systems
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Reason:
System Shock 2 under Windows XP will not
run under a duel processor envornment,
Solution:
...a very big THX for this trick/hint/info!
Liliel on 26/6/2003 at 17:10
Hmm... it seems the patched 2.3 version runs perfectly fine under WinXP for me... no crash no bug not any problem...
Ninjit_Turak on 27/6/2003 at 22:14
well im not 100% sure, but as i stated in my FAQ, system shock 2 is designed to NOT run under anything other than windows 95 or 98, it has specific protections in the installer to stop it from working on anything else.
if the protection doesnt kick in, i think you could classify it as a bug, altho its a good bug that makes it work, its still a bug.
I think more than 50% of windows XP users have one problem or another running ss2, so i think this guide is a good thing. But yes i am well aware that under many conditions the game will run fine without many troubles at all.
