okross on 4/3/2007 at 16:52
N E one install SS2 on Vista running VMware? Im thinking of installing Win 98 Virtually and installing SS2 within Win 98. THoughtS???
Bjossi on 4/3/2007 at 17:23
SS2 runs fine on Vista judging by a few tests made not long ago.
David on 4/3/2007 at 17:25
'Anyone'
VMWare's 3D acceleration support is extremely patchy at best at the moment, I would not expect playing System Shock 2 via it would be particularly enjoyable.
As an aside why are you thinking about playing SS2 via a virtual machine? I, and several others, have played all the Dark Engine games (including Shock 2) in Vista with fewer (or none!) or the problems that currently plague Windows XP.
[edit]Damn you, Bjossi! :mad:[/Edit]
Nameless Voice on 4/3/2007 at 18:52
The last time I checked, VMWare only supports Direct3D in Windows 2000 or greater.
All you'll get if you try to run SS2 or Thief 2 in VMWare '98 is a nice 'your graphics card is not supported' error.
Of course, they may have added D3D support to '98 since I last checked, though I doubt it.
okross on 4/3/2007 at 19:53
Bjossi
Ive installed it on Vista and got the same issues XP had. I went through the troubleshooting steps on this site and still had the same problems XP had.
--Freezing with stuttering sound in background (ctr-alt-del to quit)
--Quit to desktop with generic Windows error.
Is there a writeup for running it on Vista?
Thanks
june gloom on 4/3/2007 at 22:12
Quote Posted by David
'Anyone'
quoted for emphasis. isn't it actually HARDER to type "n e" than "any"?
Bjossi on 4/3/2007 at 22:55
Quote Posted by okross
--Freezing with stuttering sound in background (ctr-alt-del to quit)
--Quit to desktop with generic Windows error.
Sounds like you forgot to disable CPU1.
okross on 5/3/2007 at 03:16
I could of sworn I set the affinity properly. I tried again and it wored fine for 10 minutes without crashing. Hopefully it will keep on playing.
Thanks for the help!! :cool:
Bjossi on 5/3/2007 at 17:24
You need to set the affinity property every time you run the game if you don't do any measures to make the change permament, like using ImageCfg.
Now that I mentioned it, after installing ImageCfg properly you'd just have to write the below line into the command-line and press enter.
imagecfg -a 0x1 "X:\path\to\shock2.exe"
