voodoo47 on 9/8/2005 at 09:14

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..I have finally fixed the "too fast" problem for all my games that had this problem (system shock2/thief gold,resident evil1/2).after days of fiddling around,I finally have a solution that works 100% all the time (at least for me)..here goes:

use refresh of 85Hz and turn v-sync on,and now the most important,run a movie file of your choice (doesnt really matter,any avi or mpeg will do) with media player,stop the video,leave the player running in the background,and launch the game.no matter how weird may it sound,it has fixed speed issues for ALL my games,and it works every time no matter what.

if you want a "smart" solution,create an empty *.wav file in your thief folder,rename it to run.avi,create an empty *.txt file in your thief folder,edit it with notepad,and type in following:


xxx being your path to thief (shock2,RE1/2,etc),save and exit,rename the txt file to run.bat,execute the bat,and tadaa,media player will be launched automatically every time you want to play and thief will run at correct speed.

feedback please,I would like to know if this works on any system or just on mine..

Bjossi on 13/8/2005 at 01:55

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I´m not sure what´s wrong then, is current folder spelled right, and in it´s correct location? (for example: C:\Games\SShock2\Current)

I don´t have more ideas at the moment, try renaming cutscenes folder to something else, it´ll skip cutscenes, so if this still happens, we know it´s not cutscenes related.

Shinchi on 14/8/2005 at 15:59

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:angel:

For Everyone Who Has A Problem At The Job Select Part Of The Game

Okay, so I've seen a whole bunch of people who like myself had a problem when selecting you job for the game. The game either crashes or goes black and your forced to hard-reset. I read a lot of people going on about it being that the game needs a current folder in order to work, in some cases it can be true. But I found that in most cases the problem isn't the game itself but the 3ivX Video Codec. In Order to fix this problem simply uninstall the 3ivx program from your system and it should work fine; the reason it was popping up with alot of people after there game initially ran fine is because the program expires and causes a clash between its error message and the System Shock 2 program.

Hope that helps some of you out. :D

Mac on 18/8/2005 at 00:14

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I'm not sure if my problem has been directly issued, but I dont feel like looking through all the pages to find it, so I'll just ask. I had this game on an old CD-RW, and going through a pile of old CD's, I came across it, and put it in this PC. I didnt have to install it, because when I put it on the CD-RW, I coppied the contents of the game folder into a folder on the CD RW (dont ask me why I did this instead of just directly burning the game...it was a long time ago). At any rate, I copied the contents onto my PC, and I tried starting the exe and it played, but it doesnt have any sound what so ever (except cutscenes). I came here and I looked at the FAQ to fix it, but using the compatibility mode didnt work, I dont get any sound in any of the options. I have an AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti4200, and for sound I use my Logitech USB headset, because I had trouble with my speakers. One thing I noticed is, ever since I got this USB headset, whenever I record videos with FRAPS, it never records sound, and I cant figure out why. I was wondering if for whatever reason, the same thing was happening with this game, but the cutscene videos work, so I dont know. Any help would be appriciated.

I just tried this game on an older IBM Aptiva, from like 1995 or so, but it has Windows 98. The game starts, but I still cant tell if it has sound or not, because, for whatever reason, the computer doesnt want to play any sound. But, I start the game up, and as soon as I try to start a new game, or watch the intro, it crashes. I dont know why, and I cant seem to find info on that in the FAQ anywheres. Im not even sure of the specs of the PC, but I wouldnt be surprised if it was underqualified to run the game.

Kilranian on 26/8/2005 at 16:18

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d:\setup.exe -lgntforce

This for some reason does not cause the installer to function. I don't know what else to try to get the game to install. With or without the parameter it comes up with the same 16-bit error about autoexec.nt. Any suggestions?

Edit: I went trolling through all 200 pages of this thread and found it =)

I copied my autoexec.nt from C:\windows\repair into C:\windows\system32, overwriting the existing file. Make sure you back your original up beforehand, just in case!