So howabout them games? I'm looking for decent ones to play.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:52 pm

Black screen as in black screen and crash or black screen and freeze?

PIP wrote:so basically instead of fixing the cutscenes you're just getting rid of them altogether?

That's fixing them. I actually doubt it's the codecs, more likely the cutscenes themselves are corrupted and fucking me over, so any other alternative is unthinkable.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:07 pm

Mega, uninstall the game, reboot (then possibly clean reg and reboot again), install, patch, change exe. if u still have problems edit cfg accord. to what Toxic says.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:13 pm

1] Add "skip_intro" to cam.cfg
2] Add "safe_texture_manager" to both cam.cfg and shock.cfg.
3] Remove all the cutscene lines from install.cfg

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:36 pm

I've done all that stuff. Compatability modes, editing all the cfgs. Perhaps alter something in directx or graphics card configuration?

I can hear sounds on the menu, I start a new game. The load screen comes up and it fully loads, then black screen and nothing happens. I have to alt-tab out and then close it in windows.

I edited the registry as before there wasn't even a string for ss2, but i made one up and the patch said it was already patched so thats okay. The only thing I haven't really tried is a fixed exe or whatever, but then it says it can't find the cd anyway.

Any other basic thing I've missed out on?

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:21 pm

That sounds familiar and I think its easy to fix.

There is one patch at http://www.brave.net.nz/shock2_xp_2000_fix.zip that fixes the problem with the screen going black after starting a new game. If you use this patch you should not use any compatability modes though.

Edit: Oh and I played some coop with Pip. It was funky.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:35 pm

Please insert the cd in the cd drive.

gash! it looks as if god doesnt want me to feel the fear.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:38 pm

Cocks, and you don't have a cd?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:40 pm

i downloaded it? should i mount the files i downloaded or what oh god oh

well that didnt work. looks like i am the proberbial saint proverbius marching down the tunnel made of light to the blackest abyss, accepting my fate, grudgingly yet with a last flash of something in the hope that i can play games on my computer.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:43 pm

Yeah do that. If it still goes "Blah" I'll send you a securom thing that should cover for it.

EDIT: How did it not work? For the love of all that's holy, specify what kind of problems you're getting. In fact, get on #Fallout for live support and c6.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:47 pm

DAC - Instant messaging and you know it!

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:51 pm

im on irc now thnx

DAC - Instant messaging and you know it!

shut up you butt

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:14 pm

you did go through all this, right? http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69958

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:42 pm

Megatron wrote:gash! it looks as if god doesnt want me to feel the fear.

Fear in coop? Euhe. *smack*

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:05 pm

Did the first SS have co-op? I don't have either of them installed.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:56 pm

i meant fear of patrick throwing shotguns at me asking me to fix them since he carries around 6 of them with one bullet each

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:57 pm

None of Toxie's magical fixes worked for me.

I'm downloading another version of the game now. Perhaps it'll work.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:59 pm

PiP wrote:
Nicolai wrote:
Stainless wrote:2. Hamachi or something similar to get online co-op, as technically it only supports LAN co-op.

Wrong.
? explain Nicos?

Because TCP/IP also works, I guess.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:05 pm

But hamachi is a nice easy thing to use for retarded people like myself who can't be arsed doing it the "other" way.

Did the first SS have co-op? I don't have either of them installed.

No, and originally neither did SS2. It was added as a patch.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:51 pm

I noticed synchronization took less time when using hamachi, than over regular tcp/ip.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:55 pm

whom did you play over tcp/ip with?