Need help with Thief: The Dark Project

voodoo47 on 17/1/2011 at 17:51

I think you may have installed the game to your program files,and that is a bad,bad thing.

remove the game completely,and install it to C:\games\thief or something similar (the path must be short).

don't forget to use ddfix again:

(http://www.filefront.com/17376197/thief.exe) pre-patched exe
(http://jermi.dyndns.org/~jermi/ddfix/ddfix_1.5.11.zip) latest version of ddfix

and rename MOVIES to _MOVIES.

lost_soul on 17/1/2011 at 19:42

Good luck getting those movies to work. I gave up on it long ago. I used Vista and tried everything. They do play in Linux, but alas there is some other bug where the game sometimes hangs when you try to skip a movie in Linux.

Matteo on 17/1/2011 at 20:48

Quote Posted by Child Of Karras

Sounds still to me like a graphics driver issue. Try to uninstall it and remove all remaining files (there are special tools for this purpose). Then install it again.

I think it isn't a VGA drivers problem, I have the lastest version of NVIDIA drivers.

Quote Posted by voodoo47

I'll do so, hope it works.:)

But then you believe that the crash is caused by the movies?

voodoo47 on 17/1/2011 at 21:21

right now,we don't know,but getting the movies out of the way is a good start.as soon as the game itself works,we will try to figure out the movies.

Matteo on 18/1/2011 at 12:42

OK, I've removed Thief and now I'm installing it again.

It is good C:\Thief as installation path?

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Sagittal on 18/1/2011 at 13:56

Yep, that looks fine Matteo.

I put mine in C:\Games\Thief (so I can add other game subdirectories later - also this length is not too long) but your suggestion is fine as well.

Matteo on 18/1/2011 at 14:59

good news guys... for me obviously.:cheeky:

I've installed the game in C:\Thief, applied the 1.33 patch and now runs, but there is a thing that I want to know: is there an intro movie or something?:erg:

Goldmoon Dawn on 18/1/2011 at 16:13

Very good question! And yes, there *is* an intro movie! Also, there is a movie before each Mission and a couple special movies throughout the game... :ebil:

voodoo47 on 18/1/2011 at 16:27

rename _MOVIES back to MOVIES,and try running the game again.with a bit of luck,the movies should run.

Matteo on 18/1/2011 at 17:01

Quote Posted by voodoo47

rename _MOVIES back to MOVIES,and try running the game again.with a bit of luck,the movies should run.

the problem is that I haven't renamed anything, I only installed the game and updated to 1.33, I haven't even used the ddfix.