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Posted September 12, 2018
System overclock: engage.

System Shock: Enhanced Edition, the seminal horror FPS/RPG (or "immersive sim", if you're being fancy), has been further enhanced with the Source Port free update. It's also 50% off until September 17th, 3 pm UTC.

The game has been rebuilt from its original source code and it packs some pretty shocking improvements, including 4K resolution support, official support for fan missions and mods, smoother camera rotation, improved control scheme, support for both Direct3D and OpenGL, mouselook support, plus it fixes some of the bugs still scurrying about since the game's original release!

That should be enough to make even Shodan smile. Before she tries to kill you again, of course.
Posted September 12, 2018
does this new port support only dx11 and higher cards?
Posted September 12, 2018
Works great in Wine 3.15 out of the box. (If only I could figure out how to not have MIDI hijack my entire sound card it would be perfect, but that's a problem on my end, not with the game or Wine)
Posted September 12, 2018
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apehater: does this new port support only dx11 and higher cards?
It has DX11 and OpenGL modes. But I don't know if non DX11 GPUs have the necessary OpenGL level.

I've tried the game for half an hour at 5120x2880, 8xMSAA, 60fps, 3D Vision, and it's great. A lot better than the original game in smoothness, controls and resolution (pls don't kill me, purists).

The only thing I miss is 5.1 audio. There's only stereo at most.
Post edited September 12, 2018 by masterotaku
Posted September 12, 2018
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Vissavald: Yes, yes, YES!!!

The 'buy the same game over and over again' circus must go on!

Something is rotten in a state of modern gaming industry... The neverending flood of 'enhanced remakes' is a glaring proof of impotency and lack of fresh ideas. And why should one try to bring something really new while it needs much less time and toil just to sell the same good old thing wrapped in shiny new foil?

People just became fat and lazy, they just don't know how to run their beloved old games on newer systems.
Well, are you lazy? So take out your wallet!
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maladr0Id: I'm not sure how this applies here, to be honest. This is a free update.
You'll have to excuse my friend. He's a little slow. (с) May be because he is from russia. Aggressive neighbor-alcoholic. I think you understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZD95uehQFE
Posted September 12, 2018
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apehater: does this new port support only dx11 and higher cards?
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masterotaku: It has DX11 and OpenGL modes. But I don't know if non DX11 GPUs have the necessary OpenGL level.

I've tried the game for half an hour at 5120x2880, 8xMSAA, 60fps, 3D Vision, and it's great. A lot better than the original game in smoothness, controls and resolution (pls don't kill me, purists).

The only thing I miss is 5.1 audio. There's only stereo at most.
i can't play it on my 8800 gtx. getting an error message.

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maladr0Id: I'm not sure how this applies here, to be honest. This is a free update.
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Loger13: You'll have to excuse my friend. He's a little slow. (с) May be because he is from russia. Aggressive neighbor-alcoholic. I think you understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZD95uehQFE
you're a racist, offensive and an a-hole
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Post edited September 12, 2018 by apehater
Posted September 12, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: It's not well presented. The store page appears to show this as new game to buy and if you goto library nothing in the library is marked as new/updated. I can find it if I search but it's not flagged as new/updated and hence I would have jumped to the same conclusion as this poster. Please sort your update system out as this is not the first item updated which doesn't get flagged or marked - dying light for instance.
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omega64: Oh it did get marked, a week ago when the update happened.
I didn't receive an update flag.
Posted September 12, 2018
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apehater: i can't play it on my 8800 gtx. getting an error message.
The game tries to launch in DX11 mode by default. Open "kekengine.cfg" (in the game folder), and set this:

seta r_rhirenderfamily "opengl"

Instead of this:

seta r_rhirenderfamily "d3d11"

If it doesn't work, it means your GPU can't play it.
Post edited September 12, 2018 by masterotaku
Posted September 12, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: It's not well presented. The store page appears to show this as new game to buy and if you goto library nothing in the library is marked as new/updated. I can find it if I search but it's not flagged as new/updated and hence I would have jumped to the same conclusion as this poster. Please sort your update system out as this is not the first item updated which doesn't get flagged or marked - dying light for instance.
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omega64: Oh it did get marked, a week ago when the update happened.
Well, I can't actually check of course, it I don't remember going in in the last week to check for updates, and system shock is not marked as updated, there is a new entry however. Maybe someone else is going in and checking these for me?
Posted September 12, 2018
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apehater: i can't play it on my 8800 gtx. getting an error message.
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masterotaku: The game tries to launch in DX11 mode by default. Open "kekengine.cfg" (in the game folder), and set this:

seta r_rhirenderfamily "opengl"

Instead of this:

seta r_rhirenderfamily "d3d11"

If it doesn't work, it means your GPU can't play it.
that file is not in the game folder and neighter in any subfolder. and just to be clear, cause sadly the whole forum is full of idiots, its the official gog ss1 ee sourceport installation without any galaxy shit.

hey gog, why are you selling shit again! can i at least have the old ss1 ee installer without this buggy sourceport shit!?
Posted September 12, 2018
It was a typo. It's "kexengine.cfg". Damn kek...
Posted September 12, 2018
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masterotaku: It was a typo. It's "kexengine.cfg". Damn kek...
nope i didn't find any cfg file in the gamefolder or its subfolders
Posted September 12, 2018
The German and French versions have a size of 184 MB while the English version has a size of 275 MB. Did they update only the English version?
Posted September 12, 2018
Awww Hell yeah. Perfect thing to play before the release of the remake and cyberpunk
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S_H_O_D_A_N: The German and French versions have a size of 184 MB while the English version has a size of 275 MB. Did they update only the English version?
The audio is probably still in English.
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HiPhish: Works great in Wine 3.15 out of the box. (If only I could figure out how to not have MIDI hijack my entire sound card it would be perfect, but that's a problem on my end, not with the game or Wine)
I dunno, sound's like it's either a problem with Wine or Linux to me.
Post edited September 12, 2018 by Magmarock
Posted September 12, 2018
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masterotaku: It was a typo. It's "kexengine.cfg". Damn kek...
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apehater: nope i didn't find any cfg file in the gamefolder or its subfolders
Really dumb question: you sure it's the EE and not the classic edition?
Posted September 12, 2018
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S_H_O_D_A_N: The German and French versions have a size of 184 MB while the English version has a size of 275 MB. Did they update only the English version?
You are correct the english version is the only one updated
https://www.gogdb.org/product/1439995156

Actually looking at the galaxy file manifest it seems that the english download contains the other languages maybe
https://www.gogdb.org/manifest/a070d4b5e8de566b0194f7074b07d9a3
note the french and german files
Post edited September 12, 2018 by Cusith
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