Application Details:
| Version: | 2.3 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.irrationalgames.com... |
| Votes: | 35 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.0-rc1 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installation and normal game play.
What does not
Non-essential video cut-scenes (Intel codec).
Workarounds
What was not tested
Nothing.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Kernel 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 crashes during the installer's DirectX detection. I tried to avoid this using the nv driver instead of NVidia's driver. Installs fine on 2.6.24.7-92.fc8. I doubt that Wine can be blamed for this, but there it is. Other than that, RC3 is a huge improvement over 0.9.58, which was the previous version available as F8 packages: it runs the game full screen, rather than in an emulated desktop.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Dec 10 2022 | 8.0-rc1 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | Good Guy Danny | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 30 2022 | 7.19 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Good Guy Danny | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 05 2012 | 1.5.14 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Manne Dyrver | |
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 30 2012 | 1.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Fedora 16 x86_64 | Dec 14 2011 | 1.3.29 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Konstantin Boyandin |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
Game will be randomly crashed on multicore systems. This is bug of Dark Engine (see bug #9844 for more info).
Launch game via taskset program:
taskset -c 1 wine Shock.exe
The game's installer refuses to install if it detects Windows 2k or later. To work around this, you have two options. First, you can run winecfg and set the Windows version to Windows 98, and then run setup.exe from the CD as normal. Alternatively, you can open a terminal, navigate to the CD drive, and run the installer this way: wine "setup.exe" -lgntforce
Do a full install (Intel codec too), but do not install Direct X.
Install SS2 Tool
http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php?topic=392.0
SS2 Tool should be the first thing you do after installing the game. It replaces the official patch, and also includes a few other critical bugfixes needed to get System Shock 2 working on modern systems. It also removes the copy protection.
For better looking graphics:Install the SHTUP texture pack.
Install the Rebirth Complemented High-Definition model pack.
