System Shock
Download VDMSound:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/
Then just follow the directions on this page:
System Shock and XP
The part that says "Replace the following section in
c:\SSHOCK\VDMS.INI with the data shown below:" means go through the file, find the
"[SB Controller.config]" section, and replace everything under it with what the page says.
Since trying to go to the C drive in my command prompt wants to take me to the Users folder in the Documents and Settings folder, go directly to your System Shock folder with, say for example, "cd c:\Games\SSHOCK" Obviously, use whatever the directory for wherever you installed System Shock is.
Ignore the bit at the end about mouse2kv. All that did for me was make the game crash.
System Shock did not like DOSbox. Even after I had installed the game, DOSbox kept whining about how it couldn't run the game directly off the CD. Either I wasn't doing something right with DOSbox or the DOSShell and DBGL frontloaders, or System Shock thinks it's special. Even though I can run it with ScummVM maybe I should try Monkey Island for the sake of testing another DOS game.
If you're not getting any sound after the title screen, check the in-game options to make sure the sound sliders aren't set to mute.
System Shock 2
Install System Shock 2 like normal.
Apply this patch. May or may not be necessary, but it can't hurt:
http://www.irrationalgames.com/shock2/
Download imagecfg, then make and run the .bat file, all as given here. DDLcache seems to be hidden, so you'll have to use WinZIP's Extract To option to get imagecfg into that folder.
Game Issues With Multiprocesser/Hyperthreading Systems
Do NOT go to the Windows desktop and tell SS2 to run with Win98 compatibility. Just leave it at XP compatibility.




As I said, it sounds good in premise, not many overhead beatemups
But what good is originality when the game is a festering dung heap?






