SS2 distorted colours on NVidia card

[67510cfa72711Blackstar]

Hi all

Thought the HT fix mite be the answer to the problem i am having with the game but it crashes back to desktop as soon as it begins loading the first level after the intro.

When i get to the menu half of it is a pink colour and some of the text on the screen is blurred...i have tried different drivers but the results are always the same.

I have the game patched up with the sstool

My system

Q6600
8800gtx
XFI sound card.

Any ideas what the problem mite be.?

Thanks.

[67510cfa72979Kolya]

That's a NVidia 8800 card, right? See here:
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113501

[67510cfa72a95Blackstar]

Thanks for that 

Trouble is though that fixes how the game looks but i cant even get in the game as it crashes when loading the first level.

[67510cfa72bd5Kolya]

Sorry to hear that. All I know about the issue is from that thread though.
You could try to contact the patchmaker, but I remember trying to look up his contact details (Wanted to put up the patch here.) but I couldn't find his adress anywhere.

[67510cfa72d4aBlackstar]

Thanks again..

I had a go to get SS2 working a few years ago when i had a different system ( P4 with a 6800gt ) and i could not get it to work then,although i could at least get the first level to load.!

I recently got a magazine called PC Gamer that had a feature on the game (it mentioned this site) ,the article said how easy it was to get the game working,just download SStool and that was about it.! I could not believe it,finally i was going to get to play this great game again.

So i thought i would give it another go on my new system but i could not even get the first level to load.!After much messing about with it the game its going back in the cupboard again ready to appear in a few years time on a future Pc.

Bloody game.

[67510cfa72f74blue shift]

If none of this fixes the crashing, it could be your processor being dual core. I had this problem playing thief.
To fix it:

• Press ctrl+alt+delete after loading the game menu
• Click task manager
• Click the processes tab
• Right click ss2 file in the list
• Click "set affinity"
• Click off "CPU 1"

This might fix it, but if it does, you have to do this every time you restart the game.

[67510cfa7307dblue shift]

Found out I might need this texture fix too, but I don't really understand how I can fix SS2 with it as the file I found seems to be for thief 2 only.