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[Sean]

Does anybody know of games like the title describes?

[BlackMageJawa]

Hmm, 3D and Free don't go together all that often yet.

The Elder Scrolls: Arena might count. The graphics are all 2D, but it's a 3D world, if you see what I mean. It was released as Freeware to celebrate the series' anniversary or something, and it's certainly story driven.

Then there's System Shock 1&2, which can be found on HOTU, but they're abandoned rather than legally free. Two great FPSs, and the latter is very scary too.

[Aureliano]

Since he said "story driven" I don't think Arena counts. Well, he also said "good", so...

[Tulac]

Those three words don't have much in common, system shock 2 is about the only game that I can think of...

[win98]

sorry can not think of any

[BeefontheBone]

A warning about SS2 - awesome as it is, particularly in 2-player co-op mode with the patch, it doesn't like Windows XP, or at least I've not made it run. If anyone has managed it, I'd like to know!

[Sean]

Going to go check them out at HOTU.... means bloody slow download though  

[BeefontheBone]

They've a torrent for SS2 but how many seeds'll be available is anybody's guess.

[Flop]

BeefontheBone, on May 21 2005, 11:18 AM, said:

A warning about SS2 - awesome as it is, particularly in 2-player co-op mode with the patch, it doesn't like Windows XP, or at least I've not made it run. If anyone has managed it, I'd like to know!

I managed to run it on xp, I think. I believe there is a fanmade patch or some such, out there.

Edit: Yep. I found the xp fix and this guide in my patches directory:

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This fix allows SS2 to run under Windows 2000 and XP.

It still reqired the System Shock CD to be in your CD drive.

1) Install the latesh Shock Patch availble from the official website.
2) Back uo your iriginal shock2.exe.
3) Replace with this shock2.exe

Enjoy.

[BeefontheBone]

ace - any idea where you found that?

[Tulac]

I myself played this game on win98, but I'm also sure that my friend ran it fine on WinXP...

[Flop]

BeefontheBone, on May 21 2005, 02:44 PM, said:

ace - any idea where you found that?

I managed to find this. It contains a link to the fix.

I looked through an SS2 forum, and it turns out this is pretty complicated stuff. According to some guy there you should do this if it still doesn't work:

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You will need to edit the shock.cfg file in the System Shock 2 folder on the hard drive. Open the shock.cfg file with notepad, and add the text "safe_texture_manager" on a line of its own. This change will become active when the file is saved.

Good luck.

[MdaG]

Flop, on May 21 2005, 03:22 PM, said:

BeefontheBone, on May 21 2005, 02:44 PM, said:

ace - any idea where you found that?

I managed to find this. It contains a link to the fix.

I looked through an SS2 forum, and it turns out this is pretty complicated stuff. According to some guy there you should do this if it still doesn't work:

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You will need to edit the shock.cfg file in the System Shock 2 folder on the hard drive. Open the shock.cfg file with notepad, and add the text "safe_texture_manager" on a line of its own. This change will become active when the file is saved.

Good luck.

Complicated?

It says to add a line to a cfg file  

[BeefontheBone]

shame that didn't work for me really