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This page is for the 2015 remaster. For the original game, see System Shock. For the 2023 remake, see System Shock (2023).
System Shock: Enhanced Edition is a modern source port of the 1994 game System Shock offering features such as hardware acceleration, improved widescreen, in-game control rebinding, and more.
On 6 September 2018, a major update of the Enhanced Edition ported it to the Kex Engine, offering additional features such as higher resolutions, mouselook, rebindable keys and use of the high resolution assets from the Mac version[2]
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
Essential improvements
Skip Intro Videos
- Matches the text to the spoken audio.
- Updated to work with the Sept 2018 source port.
- Improves music playback. Windows 10 users may want to see MIDI mapper workarounds first.
- The default Windows MIDI instruments library sounds rather low quality and out of place in many parts of the game, visit this Steam guide to learn how to improve it.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System |
Location |
| Windows |
%APPDATA%\Nightdive Studios\System Shock EE\kexengine.cfg |
| Steam Play (Linux) |
<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System |
Location |
| Windows |
%APPDATA%\Nightdive Studios\System Shock EE\savegame\archive\savgam**.dat
%APPDATA%\Nightdive Studios\System Shock EE\savegame\archive\currsave.dat |
| Steam Play (Linux) |
<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/[Note 1] |
- Saves made before the Source Port Update are stored in
<path-to-game>\res\data[6] or <path-to-game>\res\missions\archive.
Video
Input
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.
With the Kex Engine sourceport version, you can change these bindings via the in-game control settings section. For the wrapper edition, use the config file edits below.
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Edit controls.cfg (2015 wrapper version)[citation needed]
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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 {{key|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).
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Audio
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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Music, Digital FX, Audio Message Volume. |
| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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Toggle Messages setting under Audio Options. Words are not exact representations of audio. Fix available in the from of Gigaquad's Enhanced log texts mod. |
| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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| Royalty free audio |
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| General MIDI audio |
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Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| French |
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| German |
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| Russian |
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Fan translation, download |
| Spanish |
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Fan translation, download |
Issues fixed
System Shock won't launch
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Turn off MSI afterburner[7]
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Run the game in Windows 95 compatibility mode[8]
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Game crashes with "ERROR!" after intro
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Move the game installation path to somewhere that is shorter than 64 characters.[9]
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Final boss fills the screen too fast
Reactor code is no longer randomized
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Replace archive.dat[11]
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Download the archive.dat
file and replace the one found in \res\data. The tool reactor-rng can also be used to patch a game that is already in progress.
- Note: This fix can cause issues with the automap MFD on the second level. The display can become off-center and significantly zoomed out, preventing the player from using the mini-map.[12]
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Lag spike whenever the mouse is moved
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Replace bundled SDL2.dll[citation needed]
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The SDL version bundled with the game contains a bug which causes lag spikes with high polling mice, this can be fixed by replacing the bundled dll with a updated one from SDL's website.
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Blurry/choppy screen when looking around
VR support
| 3D modes |
State |
Notes |
| vorpX |
| G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| Direct3D |
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Added in source port update. |
| OpenGL |
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Utilizes SDL 2.0 for output. |
| Software renderer |
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Edit shock.ini and set SoftRenderer to on. |
| Vulkan |
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| Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
| Windows |
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Mods
- The 6 September 2018 source port introduced official mod support.
- The very first full fan made singleplayer campaign for the original System Shock in over 24 years!
- 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.
- This is version 3, which has been updated to work with the Source Port Update.
- A version of this mod compatible with the game before the Source Port Update can be found here. Download only "hi-res3DSS.rar", ignoring "v2" - version 2 only adds adding parameters, useless if you don't want to mod the game.
System requirements
| Windows |
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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 | |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/410710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (410710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
