A few ideas:

- Have you tried patching the game further? Can't bother to look, but perhaps there's a patch that came out after the Gold Edition that adds further fixes

- What version of DirectX do you have installed? AFAIR SoFII is based on idtech3 and oGL based, much like SoF was idtech2 based, but perhaps it's relying on some newer DirectX component that you don't have.

- What drivers are you using for the videocard? You could try something from mid to late 2002, around the time SoF II came out.

By the way, while you may be surpassing the minimum system requirements, the game will not run very well on this system, even if you manage to run it. This and Jedi Knight 2, also from Raven and on the same engine, really need a faster CPU and videocard to shine. Northwood Pentium 4 at 2GHz or equivalent Athlon XP and GF4 Ti4200 is more appropriate I think.

It *should* work on Win98. I've ran it on a P2 w/ W98 before.

SOF2 does urge DX8.1 to be installed minimum, so hopefully that's at least there.

Garrett W wrote on 2023-01-14, 09:52:

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A few ideas:

- Have you tried patching the game further? Can't bother to look, but perhaps there's a patch that came out after the Gold Edition that adds further fixes

- What version of DirectX do you have installed? AFAIR SoFII is based on idtech3 and oGL based, much like SoF was idtech2 based, but perhaps it's relying on some newer DirectX component that you don't have.

- What drivers are you using for the videocard? You could try something from mid to late 2002, around the time SoF II came out.

By the way, while you may be surpassing the minimum system requirements, the game will not run very well on this system, even if you manage to run it. This and Jedi Knight 2, also from Raven and on the same engine, really need a faster CPU and videocard to shine. Northwood Pentium 4 at 2GHz or equivalent Athlon XP and GF4 Ti4200 is more appropriate I think.

I think that the game might be up to date patch wise , ill double check though.

I do recall having to install direct x 8.1 to get the game not to even crash on the id tech command console that runs before the game begins.

I think the drivers are these ones
https://web.archive.org/web/20010405050633/ht … ctra7400ddr.htm
spw9x508a_app.exe
They do appear to be from 2001 so maybe id need to get later ones?

I do realize that the pc is probably a bit under spec but I wanted to see how far I could get running games to sort of know what the cut off for my rig is
I did get jedi knight 2 jedi outcast and hitman 2 silent assasin running though strangely enough.

Okay so there is a slightly later driver whats confusing though is that there are 4 different kinds of drivers and im not sure which ones best.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020209002649/ht … ctra7400ddr.htm

AppleSauce wrote on 2023-01-15, 01:04:

Okay so there is a slightly later driver whats confusing though is that there are 4 different kinds of drivers and im not sure which ones best.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020209002649/ht … ctra7400ddr.htm

Bit of an edit they do list the difference between the drivers

I'm not sure weather to use the green 123 or the 211.
It mentions something about converting dx7 calls to dx8 but I'm pretty sure 256 wont do native dx8 tho?

Hokay so bit of an update , that green 211 driver did the trick , the game works fine now , at 640x480 it runs pretty okay , wont win any awards but I'm glad I figured out what was going on.

looks unusually dark. i'd try at least nvidia's detonator 12.41 at the earliest

leileilol wrote on 2023-01-15, 08:20:

looks unusually dark. i'd try at least nvidia's detonator 12.41 at the earliest

I think that might be due to the creative drx2 decoder card I have hooked up to my gpu via passthrough causing that. I'll see what it looks like without the card.