First post, by Digitalzombie
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Greetings!
In a serious case of nostalgia I've cobbled a pseudo 2003 (my high time in gaming) high-end system together this week (the one from my signature).
It may be a bit to high-end for Windows ME, but in truth I've always liked it and and XP was a bit to new for my taste 😀
It's pretty period correct, except for the new power supply and as a cause of insanity a Mushkin Chronos 120GB SATA SSD.
Shame on me, but I've actually NEVER played System Shock (2). But damn, its friggin hard to get it running on Windows 9x/ME.
So I'm in need of a bit of help.
Steam is of course out of the question and the GOG version is patched beyond anything usable on WinMe (bought it, tried it, nope 🙁 ).
Then I began hunting for the retail version and finally found one for a few bucks.
With my system specs of course I don't want to run the vanilla unpatched version. A bit of eye candy in form of mods and a few bugfixes as patches should be possible. At least I thought so.
I've tried the howto from here: How-to-get-the-most-out-of-System-Shock-2
Didn't want to overdo it, so I've tried "Setup #3".
Yeah ... as soon as the game is patched (without mods), it's pretty much the same as the GOG version. Which means I've got 2 errors on starting the SHOCK2.exe.
1. "expects newer version of Windows"
2. "a device attached to the system is not functioning"
The first one is pretty much self explaining. The second one maybe too, but I got no idea which device it could be. I know of one error in the device manager but thats just the damn nforce USB controller (couldn't be it, could it?).
So, my goal is clear. Now I need help. Anyone knows about the latest patch for Win9x/ME? The mod manager doesn't work on ME, but I could mod it directly. Still a few options and bugfixes from the unofficial patch would be awesome.
Anyone got ideas? 😀
Nothing ever burns down by itself
Every fire needs a little bit of help
