Into cutscene won't play

Redletter15 on 1/2/2010 at 00:08

Hi, I just got Thief: TDP and found that the game hangs whenever I try to play the intro cut scene. I tried all of the suggestions in the tech FAQ and tried different compatibility mode settings, but nothing seems to work. I'm running on a Windows XP S3 machine with an NVIDIA 8600 GT. Please help me.

jtr7 on 1/2/2010 at 02:44

You tried the compatibility modes after you went through the FAQ, right, not before?

And when you start the game, press alt+Tab, then open the task manager and right-click on the thief.exe, and choose Affinity, it only shows one box checked?

Redletter15 on 1/2/2010 at 04:34

Yeah, I tried compatibility mode before and after I read the FAQ. I also made sure the affinity was set to one core both before and after I read the FAQ.

bikerdude on 1/2/2010 at 12:32

Quote Posted by jtr7

You tried the compatibility modes after you went through the FAQ, right, not before?

He may not have registered the indeo codec, Red go back to the FAQ and look for the howto for this..

Redletter15 on 3/2/2010 at 03:06

Quote Posted by Bikerdude

He may not have registered the indeo codec, Red go back to the FAQ and look for the howto for this..

The indeo codec is in the software registry and I tried both ways of registering in from the FAQ, so that's not the problem. I've also had the affinity set to one CPU core before and after I read the FAQ, and I did try different compatibility modes before and after I read the FAQ.

Nimble Jim on 7/2/2010 at 23:44

I just got Thief - The Complete Collection and couldn't get the videos for Thief Gold or Thief 2 to play on XP SP3 with an nVidia 8800GTS and the latest drivers. I stumbled on the solution when I tried installing the (http://codecguide.com/download_mega.htm) K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, which Saleck suggests doing on (http://www.saleck.net/Games/Thief1-Gold/Thief-HowToGetWorking.php) his site. When I ran the installer, it had me uninstall some other codec packs that I had installed a long time ago, as well as RealPlayer, and then it suggested restarting. After restarting, the movies worked, even though I hadn't installed the K-Lite codec pack yet. I think the old codec packs were getting used instead of the Indeo codecs. I still used (http://timeslip.chorrol.com/ddfix.html) DDFix to take care of the multi-core problem. Good luck.