System Shock: Enhanced Edition

System Shock: Enhanced Edition

Developers
	Looking Glass Studios
Publishers
	Night Dive Studios
Release dates
Windows	September 22, 2015

System Shock
System Shock	1994
System Shock 2	1999
System Shock: Enhanced Edition	2015
System Shock (2023)	2023
System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition	TBA
System Shock 3	TBA

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

System Shock, the biggest forum about the game.

SHODANPEDIA - A wiki for the System Shock series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GOG.com		Includes System Shock as Classic Edition.
Humble Store
Steam		Includes System Shock as Classic.

Essential improvements

Gigaquad's Enhanced log texts mod

Gigaquad's Enhanced log texts mod matches the audio and text dialogue.

VirtualMIDIsynth

Improves music playback. Windows 10 users may want to see MIDI mapper workarounds First.

High-res objects

Improves texture quality whilst not suffering from the slow downs the DOS version had.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\sshock.ini <path-to-game>\controls.cfg
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\res\data\savgam**.dat
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Widescreen resolution

The Enhanced Edition lists a single internal widescreen resolution (854x480). This can be changed to a different resolution.

Edit sshock.ini[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Edit sshock.ini. Set CustomWidth= and CustomHeight= Choose 854x480 in the video options in-game. Notes Use lower resolutions to maintain performance (e.g. 768x480 for 16:10).

Input settings

Enable reloading and switching ammo with a single keyboard key

Few people know that System Shock has (and always had) a shortcut for both reloading and switching alternate ammo types (Alt+← Backspace and Ctrl+← Backspace). Unfortunately these keyboard shortcuts are less than convenient for modern standards. Luckily they can be changed in Enhanced Edition.

Edit controls.cfg[citation needed]

Add the following lines, preferably under the "custom profile" section: bind r cmd.ammotype default 0 bind shift+r cmd.ammotype default 0 bind tab cmd.ammotype default 1 bind shift+tab cmd.ammotype default 1 Requires R (stand) to be rebound for use by reloading. Additional binding that may be worth looking at and changing are Alt+' (throw grenade), Ctrl+' (next grenade), Alt+: (use patch), Ctrl+: (next patch) and Ctrl+A (automap).

Adding mouse-wheel support

Use AutoHotkey[citation needed]

Copy the following into a text editor and name it MOUSEWHEEL.AHK: #ifWinActive, ahk_class SDL_app #SingleInstance Ignore *WheelUp:: SendEvent +{q Down} Sleep 200 SendEvent +{q Up} Return *WheelDown:: SendEvent {q Down} Sleep 200 SendEvent {q Up} Return ; Middle mouse button: Grenade, the "e" key below counters ModePicking allowing you to retain aim after prepping the grenade *mbutton:: SendEvent, !{'} SendEvent, !{'} SendEvent, {e} Return ; 4th mouse button = Inventory left XButton1::Send, !{[} ; 5th mouse button = Inventory right XButton2::Send, !{]} WheelLeft::Send, !{[} WheelRight::Send, !{]} Assuming you already have the AutoHotkey suite installed, compile the script into an application. Now open a text editor again and copy the following into it, save it as a .bat file: @ECHO OFF TITLE System Shock: Enhanced Edition IF EXIST MOUSEWHEEL.exe START MOUSEWHEEL.exe sshock.exe IF EXIST MOUSEWHEEL.exe TASKKILL /IM MOUSEWHEEL.exe EXIT Place both the batch file and the compiled app into your System Shock: Enhanced Edition installation folder and use the batch script to launch the game. If you modified the key bindings you may have to modify the script as well to be compatible with your new layout (! is for Alt, ^ is for Ctrl, + is for ⇧ Shift). Making the Steam launcher and GOG Galaxy open the scripts instead of the executable alone may require compiling the batch script into an exe, renaming sshock.exe (don't forget to edit the batch to reference the new name prior to compiling) and name the newly compiled batch in it's place.

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Select MIDI Device

System Shock: Enhanced Edition has MIDI playback hard-coded to Device 0.

Hex edit executable to change MIDI device[citation needed]
Open DOSBox and run MIXER /LISTMIDI to get a list of your MIDI device IDs. Open sshock.exe in a hex editor such as HxD Search for the first instance of hex values 6A 00 6A 00 6A 00 6A 00. In HxD this should appear at Offset 000019C0. Edit the last digit to that of your desired MIDI device ID. Using Device 5 as an example, this would be: 6A 00 6A 00 6A 00 6A 05.

Issues fixed

System Shock wont launch

Turn off MSI afterburner

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL		Utilizes SDL 2.0 for output.
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Mods

Cortex Reaver Challenge

A challenge room that pit the player up against Cortex Reavers using a Laser Rapier; kill as many as you can before you die, there is no restoration chamber.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL-Compatible Card