Application Details:
| Version: | GoG/Steam |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.irrationalgames.com... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.0-rc1 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything, including mods.
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Full playthrough
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
GoG installer throws a couple of errors at the end of installation; they don't seem to break anything as the game runs fine SS2 Blue Mod Manager finds and installs mods just fine, SS2Tool patches the install without issue For perfect performance on my machine, I had to comment out 'single_display_mode 2' and uncomment 'singe_display_mode' in cam_ext.cfg since the double buffering was absolutely killing the framerate. Vsync is also disabled, framerate_cap set to 120fps since the cfg file states Vsync might have issues with the previous change Those on HD resolutions should also uncomment 'd3d_disp_scaled_2d_overlay 64' if you want the HUD to scale for your res
| 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 | Platinum | Good Guy Danny | |
| Show | macOS 12 "Monterey" | Jan 07 2023 | 7.22 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Neofelis2X | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 30 2022 | 7.19 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Good Guy Danny | |
| Current | Antergos x86_64 | Apr 22 2017 | 2.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | TehGuy | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jul 02 2014 | 1.7.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Joseph Williams |
wine setup_system_shock2_2.0.0.9.exe /nogui
Has been suggested this 500meg+ update from Microsoft can help the more graphical installer.winetricks gdiplus
Games issues:
Make sure you are using a 32bit prefix if you're running a 64bit OS and have the required lib32's installed. This is generally good practice for wine at the time of writing.
For graphical specific glitches in game you can try modifying the entries in cam_ext.cfg. Read up on those if you don't know what they are and always keep a backup. cam.cfg contains more general game options.
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by Electric Prism on Monday December 28th 2020, 12:44
GOG Installer completes fine:
setup_system_shocktm_2_2.48_(31077).exe
Launching SS2.exe directly doesn't work. So instead using start.exe gets the job done. Unsure, but reading elsewhere it said using the Unix path was preferred with dosdevices.
# Requires win32 for some reason
env WINEPREFIX="/Packages/System Shock 2/Bottle" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot
# Install
env WINEPREFIX="/Packages/System Shock 2/Bottle" wine "/Packages/System Shock 2/Installer/setup_system_shocktm_2_2.48_(31077).exe"
# Launch
env WINEPREFIX="/Packages/System Shock 2/Bottle" wine "C:\windows\command\start.exe" /Unix "/Packages/System Shock 2/Bottle/dosdevices/c:/GOG Games/System Shock 2/SS2.exe"
by Electric Prism on Monday December 28th 2020, 13:11
I was able to host a game, join that game by IP and load to to the initial level just fine on both LAN SS2 machines (I've never used this feature before so I'm not sure how it's supposed to work beyond that.)
# Multiplayer
env WINEPREFIX="/Packages/System Shock 2/Bottle" winetricks directplay
by A.G.R. on Saturday June 21st 2014, 8:09
Using Wine 1.7.18, I get no stereo sound in the GOG & Steam versions of SS2. Tried all audio settings in the in-game options, it makes no difference. All sound happens in the middle; the balance slider in SS2's audio options menu just turns the sound down when fully moved into one direction. Switching between hardware on/off makes the sound turn down on the other end of that slider. Weird. No idea what to try here.
by A.G.R. on Saturday June 21st 2014, 20:44
by Joseph Williams on Saturday June 21st 2014, 21:38
by Eric Lamar on Sunday April 20th 2014, 8:46
Try running the game from the command line while close to your System Shock 2 folder.
Hope that helps.
by Evan on Saturday April 13th 2013, 20:38
I run it with the command "WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine Shock2.exe", am I doing something wrong?
Thing is, it works perfectly on my laptop with the exact same Wine version. I run Lubuntu 32-bit on the laptop so maybe that has something to do with it?
by Joseph Williams on Saturday April 13th 2013, 21:02
From the system information in the dump, It appears you're using 64bit Manjaro which is based upon Arch, so the Arch wiki may apply wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine
It contains information about the lib32 gfx drivers as well. Let us know if you get it working.
by Dave on Monday June 24th 2013, 19:36
#!/bin/bash
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=/home/dave/.win32
wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:/GOG\ Games/System\ Shock\ 2/SHOCK2.EXE
I'm not sure why, but I think it's start.exe that made the difference. Note that "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices..." needs to be a fully qualified path, so the $WINEPREFIX var can't use ~ for the home dir.
by marcaux on Friday March 21st 2014, 2:40
it's just a wineskin wrapper so chances are good that it's working. and it was - there was another default shock2.exe in there that worked perfectly (without changing winearch and the prefix or using start.exe).
and another thing, when installing mods, don't put them in the main dir. use a subdir like shock2/mods and define them in the cam_mods.ini file. otherwise it will propably crash with the same exception.
system:
arch x86_64
wine 1.7.14
by Christiaan Kuhn on Saturday March 2nd 2013, 1:40
My setup:
SS2 (German)
With or without SS2Tool
Wine 1.4
Different Windows versions tried
Alsa sound
Can anyone confirm this?
by Joseph Williams on Saturday March 2nd 2013, 2:20