Impudent Turtle on 25/10/2011 at 19:57
I have Thief Gold installed and it works. I have been trying to get ddfix working, and it seems to; menus, maps, FMVs are working. As for the actual game I am presented with a black screen, Save for the health display. I can hear what is going on, Garrett moves but I cannot see it.
I recall having the same problem with SS2 but Kolyas tool fixed it.
I am running Vista x64.
Nathan on 25/10/2011 at 22:49
1. What version of ddfix are you using?
2. What is your graphics card setup and what graphics drivers are you using?
Impudent Turtle on 27/10/2011 at 21:15
ddfix_1.5.11
Latop
Nvidia GeForce 9100M G
Nvidia GeForce 9600M GS
Driver 7.15.11.7662 Not the most recent as I had multiple crashes after updating.
Nathan on 28/10/2011 at 11:35
Did you make sure to add the line game_screen_size 1280 1024 to cam.cfg if it is not already there?
Impudent Turtle on 28/10/2011 at 14:22
Yessir.
My cam.cfg file
Code:
; $Header: r:/prj/cam/src/RCS/cam.cfg 1.14 1998/09/23 20:00:41 mahk Exp $
; hey, which game is this
game dark
; general configs
include_user_cfg user.cfg
editor_include_dromed_cfg dromed.cfg
; game specific paths/configs
dark_include_install_cfg install.cfg
shock_resname_base r:\prj\shock\art\finals
; set trait cache to include concretes
trait_cache_flags 2
skip_intro
sfx_device 1
game_screen_depth 16
gamma 1.
game_hardware 1
game_screen_size 1280 1024
sfx_channels 8
game_screen_flags 13
game_full_screen 1
master_volume 0
skip_starting_checks
I wanted to use the widescreen patch too but that was causing the process to stop working at launch. I have since reinstalled and am trying everything a bit at a time.
Nathan on 30/10/2011 at 05:26
Are you using the ddfix prepatched exe?
Also have you tried other resolutions like game_screen_size 800 600?
Probably nothing but do you have an extra empty line at the end of your cam.cfg?
Impudent Turtle on 31/10/2011 at 10:19
Quote Posted by Nathan
Are you using the ddfix prepatched exe?
Also have you tried other resolutions like game_screen_size 800 600?
Probably nothing but do you have an extra empty line at the end of your cam.cfg?
Yes
A variety of resolutions and ratios
I do
Nathan on 4/11/2011 at 13:42
Try going into ddfix.ini and uncommenting ;SafeMode=0 and change the 0 to a 1 and try it then.
Impudent Turtle on 6/11/2011 at 00:51
Just so you know I appreciate your efforts.
SafeMode=1 didn't do anything, so I went and tried altering a few of the options I hadn't tried before.
UseSysMemOverlay=2 seems to have fixed the problem. Thing is, after tinkering so much I can't tell if ddfix is enabled any more.
darkwidescreen still causes crash at opening thief.exe
Nathan on 6/11/2011 at 17:06
With the new ddfix all you have to do for widescreen is set the desired resolution in cam.cfg. Is that what you are talking about? It causes thief.exe to crash when setting a widescreen resolution? Since you did try safemode=1 make sure it is off if you are trying widescreen but you would know that since it is mentioned in ddfix.ini.
