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
Almost everything, except what wasn't tested.
What does not
Game CD can't be detected
Workarounds
What was not tested
Extensive gameplay. Only tutorial missions completed.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
There's some steps be done before going deep to gameplay. 1) You'll need 2.3 patch 2) You'll need NoCD crack - without it game can't recongnize it's original CD :( 3) If you're using manycore (or hyperthreaded) CPU - you'll need "RunFirst" program that lets you start an application on the first processor of a multi-processor system or on an hyper-threaded single processor system. [Just google for it] 4) Run $ wine RunFirst.exe Shock2.exe 5) Profit! :) P.S. no DirectX or other redistributable packages nor winetricks packs is needed!
| 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.
