malau on 20/6/2009 at 17:58
I have Win XP now. Thief 2 seems to run okay (though I didn't look for stars or fog).
Can I still install DDFIX ????
I want the 32bit rendering and non hard coded 640x480 scroll display features.
Or is it only for people who can't run Thief at all ? I don't want to mess my installation up.
Bulgarian_Taffer on 20/6/2009 at 18:03
Thief can run without Ddfix, too, but sometimes graphics look ugly on modern hardware. It's recommended to install it if you want your Thief to look well. Actually, Thief+Ddfix+A modern graphics card looks even better than THief-NoDdfix+Older graphics card.
SunBeam on 20/6/2009 at 21:00
I believe you will not see the old 3-4 secs black screen resolution change when you move from game to reading a paper/book as it happened without DDFix. So it's worth the use ;-)
malau on 21/6/2009 at 03:17
Woo hoo !!!!! Thanks fellas !! I HATE the pause when reading scrolls !!
So all I need to do is back up my T2 EXE file and CFGs before applying the patch (just incase) ??
malau on 21/6/2009 at 04:01
DDFIX
THE APPLICATION FAILED TO INITIALIZE PROPERLY......
Guess this must mean I don't have NET 2.x.
A 22.4 mb download - THAT'S how much I hate the resolution switching scrolls :-)
2.0 is okay, right ? I don't need NET 3.5 ???
Poesta on 21/6/2009 at 09:40
I think I installed the latter. You should be fine with either of them. The resolution change also happens between the game and the menu/map/objectives and that's the main reason I use DDFix. It also gets rid of the ugly dithering. If it doesn't work for you it's easy to uninstall without uninstalling Thief (2).
Herr_Garrett on 21/6/2009 at 14:41
I've installed Thief 2 under a fresh and dewy Winxp install. Unwillingly, it starts normally, but since I've applied the DDFix and Widescreen patches all I get is a black screen - even the menu isn't shown, altough the game is running (I hear the sounds of the menu and I can navigate, if blindly, among the keys).
WTF?
SunBeam on 22/6/2009 at 07:31
There is one option you should try, if you click on "Expert Settings" (a.k.a. manually editing ddfix.ini). Last one is the one you should try tackling with ;-)
