THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. Or through other applications and games, they can be missing on some. While most systems probably already have them installed, by default IMPORTANT: The 'Visual Studio 2008 SP1 C++' and 'DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)' runtimeĭLLs are required to run (the DirectX ones are only required when running with DX9, If you don't have OpenAL but you want to use it, you will have to install the OpenAL libraries first (link provided below). If OpenAL is available on your system, it can be enabled in the Audio options menu through the option 'Hardware Acceleration', which will toggle between 'ON', 'OFF' and 'OpenAL'. Savegames made with v2.4 are however NOT compatible with v2.3. V2.4 should be able to load savegames made with v2.3, but this is best avoided. You may need to update to v2.3 first.Įxtract the contents of the 'new_dark.zip' and 'contrib.zip' archives into your SS2 directory, and you are done. You must have a valid install of SS2 v2.3. SS2 and its resources/executables are the property of Electronic Arts. If you do not agree with these terms then do not apply the update. The aforementioned parties cannot be held responsible for any problems or damages incurred by this software.

It was not developed by Electronic Arts (EA), Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios, or Amazon, and is neither supported nor endorsed by them or anyone else. This patch is made available 'as is' and without warranty of any kind. SS2 can usually be found on Amazon (or similar). This is an unofficial patch for System Shock 2 (SS2) which updates the game from v2.3 to v2.4, providing improved support for modern hardware and correcting many known bugs. This is an unofficial* patch for System Shock 2 (SS2) which updates the game from v2.3 to v2.4, providing improved support for modern hardware and correcting many known bugs.

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