Can someone help me install System Shock 2?

[nmmoore13]

I've heard so much praise for this game across the net and I loved Bioshock so I figured I would pick this up. This will be my first real PC game, which explains my complete lack of knowledge on how to install it. I know nothing about computers. I'm trying to run it on an Acer laptop with 2 GB of RAM and an Intel Pentium Dual processor on a 32 bit Vista operating system.

I put in the disc and this little window comes up with 2 options, Run panel.exe or Open Folder to view files. I clicked on the first one and another window comes up. I click install on this one and it loads for a few second, then nothing happens. I tried opening the folder to view files and I had no idea what was doing. I really don't know what to do at this point. I've browsed around the net a bit but I couldn't find any good help.

I'm hoping someone can help me. I really want to play this game!

 

[zauxz]

Downlaod it (if you know a good source).

You bought a game, and it doesnt work. Seems fair to me.

Or try browsing the disk files and starting setup.exe

 

[sheic99]

If you go through the system folders look for setup.exe. Click on that and follow the instructions.

 

[nmmoore13]

There's a few files with setup in the title but none labeled setup.exe

 

[oliveira8]

Systemshock 2 doesnt work very well with dual core processores and it runs sometimes into problems with Vista by the way.

Also when the game starts to work do this:

Load the game, alt tab out, ctrl alt del, processes tab, select SHOCK2.EXE, right click and go to set affinity, untick either cpu 1 or cpu 0.

SS2 doesnt support Dual Core, so you might run into problems.

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

It's a bit of a nightmare to run on Vista apparently. I found it quite fiddly initially on my quad core XP machine. You probably should have chosen a better introduction to PC gaming, given System Shock 2's supposed difficulty.

 

[nmmoore13]

Is it easier if I download it? I would agree that since I already bought it it would be okay to download. Where could I get it?