System Shock 2. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Thanks for the collection of graphics mods that's awesome work:D #11. Jul 18, 2013 @ 6:28am OP here, thank you for that mod pack as well. Now I can enjoy SS2 in =HIGGHGHH DEFINITIONN. System Shock 2 modding on video from start to finish.UPDATE: cam and camext.cfg files November 2018 for smoothness on G-Sync 100Hz (should also work good in other configs, might need to.

System Shock 2 is better than Deus EX, more elaborate than any of the Thief games, scarier then Resident Evil and quite frankly more engrossing than the whole porn DVD collection of planet Earth. In short, it's a fantastic game.

A brilliant one too. I mean, it's even got itself a. Unfortunately though, what with being almost retro, its graphics have started to age and their late nineties 3D engine simply doesn't look that scary anymore. Oh, and WinXP, minor gameplay and sound problems have also managed to creep up.Taking into account that the developers won't be easily threatened into producing a nice System Shock 3 ( let alone the publishers.), the only realistic solution for the horror-RPG-FPS fan is to drag System Shock 2 kicking and screaming into 2007. Give it a face lift. And an aspirin.

By injecting it with the proper mods, add-ons and fixes obviously.Start ( yes, you, dear horror-RPG-FPS fan) with the latest and a rather similar and only then move on to the much needed sound upgrade, via the mod. Having a more stable and beefier sounding game, this should be the moment to reflect on life's intricacies, while simultaneously installing the excellent mod.

This one fixes and rebalances a huge number of anomalies, discrepancies and bugs, all while staying true to the developers intentions.As for hugely improved graphics, these can be achieved through the combined use of 's ( Shock Texture Upgrade Project) high resolution textures and 's brand new detailed polygons. Oh, and by having one of those spanking new Pentium 3 ninja-PCs. I had the same experience as guttertalk. I went with Dungeon Keeper 2 instead. But I agree not only is System Shock 2 one of my top 3 all time favorite games and quite possibly number 1, but it's one of my all time favorite things.

Right up there with sex, chocolate and free food. It brought a tear of joy to my eye to know that there are people out there who so deeply respect this truly awesome title.As for Deus Ex, few people know that it is a sequel of a different title.

The original was Robinson's Requiem. That was a great game too but very hard. I think the first time I played my eyes got pecked out by a bird and, blinded, I wandered off a cliff and died. But I wasn't long for the world as I had recently not worn a jacket in the rain and contracted a cold that turned into pneumonia. Hah, I've never been into scary games too much. Tried playing the System Shock 2 demo (when it was still new) with a friend but we ended up quitting after just 10 minutes of play.

AvP2 was out around the same time as well, definitely two of the all-time most scary games.Then again, after playing that SS2 demo and AvP2 as a marine, well. Let's just say I've never considered a game to be scary again. I considered FEAR to be creepy, but not really scary. Doom 3 wasn't even creepy. And I played both those games in the midst of night with my 6.1 surround sound system on.

Whereas I played SS2 and AvP2 in the midst of day with a stereo speaker set:pI might be persuaded to give SS2 a try again, but I'm kind of short on time right now. Something to bookmark for the future eh;). AnonymousI used to love the old SS2 as a kid. I played Deus Ex for the first time about 4 years ago, and I absolutely loved it, a bit more than SS2.Deus Ex: Invisible War was absolutely awful though, and I have played both the PC and Xbox versions.

I can't remember a worse FPS experience for me (and it hardly qualifies as an RPG like DE and SS2).I might have to re-install SS2 in a few weeks, and give these a go. While the few screenshots provided look like nothing compared to a modded-to-the-hilt Morrowind, they still might add a bit of a new sheen. Tis the patch that interests me most.I love Patches. AnonymousNah, I didn't find any real info. I checked their forums, found a link to a thread on another forum that's about 40 pages long and hard to read through, tried some stuff that's listed there without any results.From what I gather, the Underdog version is already patched.

However I may be wrong about that. I'm not sure if it's patched for XP though. I tried using the XP patch but it wants the CD which I lost.I can get into the main menu, but when I try to start a new game it crashes to the desktop. It might be that I need Divx 5 codec, which the Underdogs readme.txt suggests. I have the newest codec, and I can't imagine why I would need an older one. AnonymousAwesome awesome awesome.

I've read so much about SS2 but have always been turned off by how old/ugly it was. Now I've got no excuse to try it out. I'm just finishing Invisible War today. (Finally) While not as strong as Deus Ex IMO, it's a totally solid game that I've had a great time with. IW has deep characters and story, and it is much more fun to go apeshit and kill a bunch of people in than Deus Ex (in which I played a stealthy sniper who never had to engage anyone close range:) IW just seems a tad more shallow and the game world much truncated vs. Either way, both are incredible games and I am ubar stoked to try the new, improved SS2!

Hi guys, I've been having most of the issues everyone here has and now I think I have her running stable.1) Grab version from underdogs2) Add the safetexturemanager command3) This is the kicker, start system shock 2, while you are on the menu do ctrl-alt-del and bring up task manager and go under processes, find system shock and right click and choose set affinity. Then make it so that its only running on one procesor. Im guessing everyone here is running dual core machines and this seems to be a major factor in it crashing. Then alt-tab back in and the Von Braun is yours!Cheers! How I made System Shock 2 version Home of the Underdogs to run in Windows XP:- Machine: PIII 800 Mhz, 512 MB RAM, video onboard SIS 630/730, sound SIS 7018.- Problem: SS2 install and run fine and the main menu is shown, but goes to the black screen when you start a new game.- Solution steps:1 - put the line safetexturemanager in the files cam.cfg and shock.cfg.2 - install the SS2 in C:gamessshock2, that is the standard directory for installation.I wish to write this in the TTLG forums, but the moderators dont like references to warez versions of SS2! AnonymousDragonflight:The 'XP Modded' executable is simply the v2.3 (patched) executable with the safedisc copy protection removed.

You can search for unsafedisc 1.5.5 and do it yourself. It seems the copy protection, being old, does not like XP. There is a no cd patcher for that unwrapped exe which you can find on GCWAll: There seems to be a lot of issues with this game on XP. It installs and runs 100% on my home pc, on the Dell work pc it won't install, and on the other one, crashes after the advanced training is completed. AnonymousSorry for anonymous, will get sorted soon.Great info, I've recently tried playing SS2, restarted it 2 or 3 times after 'fritzing' - go into inventory/open container/ change itmes caused program error.

Now it seem to be blocked at deck 5, garden bulkhead. It claims to be saving, starts the%transfer, then errors. This is with 'Thinstall' version, the underdogs wouldn't run for me at all.

I'm going to try to get the orginal full game and try all the patches/updates/cfg file amendments listed here to and see how that goes.One thing, this game is that good it's not bothering me to redo whole chunks - hey, it's RPG, I make a different character each time. I've go to finish it though.

AnonymousGreat reading through all these mesages, will be moving onto SS2 soon, but at the moment, have just, with the help of TTLG forums, got my original Sysyem Shock 1 working in all it's glory on my 2.4ghz XP Pro SP2 machine!!!:)I know there has been talk here of not playing SS2 because of the graphics, and obviously SS1 graphics are going to be even poorer, relatively speaking, but I really do urge you to try the original game! Trust me, with all great classic games of the past, the 640x480 SVGA graphics disappear in your minds eye and you get drawn into the fantastic gamplay and story that is System Shock! As you play, the graphics come to life, the sounds expertly play on your senses and once you have been scared to death a couple times by cyborgs and heard a few of the plaintive message left my dead crewmembers you will be hooked and gagging to continue the story then coming onto forums like this and telling the world about how great it is! Go to the Gamespy Hall of Fame section and search for System Shock to find out how truly great this game is alongside SS2!:) And by the way, thanks Gnome and everyone for the links and hints for SS2 on XP!:).

AnonymousIf you can help with a bug. I have XP, and it installs fine, but when I am in the inventory menu in the game, I cannot use my left mouse button. It is bound to attack in the inventory menu, even if i change the key bindings. This makes it impossible even to use the fist power cell and go anywhere in the game. If you have any ideas, I'd be grateful. I have tried reinstalling, using patches, using no patches, running in windows 98/2k compatability modes, and upgrading my graphics card drivers.

AnonymousNo, SS2 is not better than Deus Ex. Not for me.I love SS2, but I love much more Dx. The incredible plot, the intelligent, thoughtfull dialogue dialogue (DX is one of the very few games that made me think about important things in real life), the moral choices here and there, character interaction. DX really strives to be a reality simulation, and I just love that.Besides SS2 offers you 'only' (completely) different characters builds to do things always in the same path through the ship (as a side note, I have to say that I love the persistent world). In DX you can have different character customizations and different ways to reach your objective in the large game environments.

The first mission is a great example, you can reach the NSF commander though a number of ways (talk or not talk with Filben, use the password or hack the security terminals or just ignore it and use the crates to get up there - also there is te secondary objective to rescue (or not!) the german mech). And in the end of the mission you can choose if you kill the commander or not (a moral choice! I love that) and it changes how some characters react to you. AnonymousMe again:)Just wanted to complement my thoughts.

While in SS2 you actually have more options to create different characters than DX, the path through the starship is always the same, very, very linear, you always have to do things in a predetermined order.In DX, despite your skill choiches, many missions, as I said, offers different ways to be finished that do not depend only of your skills choices, and it gives the sensation (or illusion:D ) that it is more 'realistic'.Oh, and I feel lonely in SS2. I DO miss some NPCs. It is quite convenient for the devs to only use audio logs as a way to present the plot.Still, both great games:) Cheers. Ny how if an RPG type game has guns, lasers, etc, people get confused about whether it's an RPG or an FPS.

People talk about the 'shooty bits', etc. Now then, did anyone get confused with oblivion or The Witcher, or the Ultima Undergrounds or the Wizardry games? No, because they came with swords rather than guns. So the fact that games like SS2 and Fallout 3 use lasers and rifles does NOT make them FPSRPG's, They are RPG's plain and simple.

Tetris friends unblocked. Play free slingo supreme 2. Just like those with swords. Sci-Fi RPG's do not have 'shooty bits' anymore than fantasy RPG's have 'swordy bits'!!!