System Shock 2 on Windows 98 SE Help

[6656370ee7101ZombieKohhi]

Ok so here is the problem I am having. The game plays the cutscene after selecting new game and crashes after loading. I get a black screen and I have to press enter to get out of it. I believe there is an error message that says something about an illegal operation but usually I can't see it because the screen is black.

The specs on this machine are

Windows 98 SE
Pentium 4 2.80 GHz
512 MB RAM
Geforce FX 5500 256 MB (Driver ver. 4.14.10.5664) (DirectX Version 9.0a)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

I even tried the demo and the same thing happens. It even happens with the Thief 2 Demo 

[6656370ee7337voodoo47]

you really should be running a 3Dfx card in that rig. anyway, try safe_texture_manager and maybe set the resolution manually in cam.cfg (game_screen_size 800 600), but that's pretty much it, then it's the good old swap/remove components/drivers until things start to work.

also just to state the obvious, you cannot use NewDark, so no recent patches, no updated demos etc, just vanilla cd stuff.

[6656370ee7469ZombieKohhi]

Ok I updated to the last nvidia driver that supports Windows 98 SE and it works now. Does anyone know where I can get the last official patch for System Shock 2?

[6656370ee758avoodoo47]

https://www.google.com/search?q=system+shock+patch+2.3

[6656370ee76a2ZombieKohhi]

I guess I should have asked what version of the official patches was the latest one. I would have used google to find it. Thanks for your help 

[6656370ee7980sarge945]

You can't use Google, you have to use ask Jeeves. Google didn't exist until late 1998 and only got popular in 1999 onwards

[6656370ee7aedKolya]

AltaVista has better results in my experience.

[6656370ee7c4cZylonBane]

Y'all are a bunch of yahoos.