pavlovscat on 13/2/2009 at 00:08
Welcome bhlaab!
I have moved your thread to the Technical Help forum where someone should be able to answer your question.
Happy Taffing!
jtr7 on 13/2/2009 at 08:32
Unfortunately this question does not come up too often, and from what I've seen trying to search for a solution, no one knows how to fix it, but there are some things to try, which may or may not work.
Are you playing in Software Mode? Try Hardware Mode.
You could try uninstalling the graphics drivers, reboot, reinstall the driver, and then reinstall DirectX.
You wouldn't happen to be playing through DromEd, would you?
Have you removed the semicolon from the safe_texture_manager line in your User.cfg?
What happens if you: go into a mission, press ctrl+p (or ctrl+: ) to open the command console, type light_bright, and press Enter?
Sorry if nothing works. Hopefully we will figure it out someday...
bhlaab on 14/2/2009 at 01:55
Quote Posted by jtr7
Unfortunately this question does not come up too often, and from what I've seen trying to search for a solution, no one knows how to fix it, but there are some things to try, which may or may not work.
Are you playing in Software Mode? Try Hardware Mode.
You could try uninstalling the graphics drivers, reboot, reinstall the driver, and then reinstall DirectX.
You wouldn't happen to be playing through DromEd, would you?
Have you removed the semicolon from the
safe_texture_manager line in your User.cfg?
What happens if you: go into a mission, press
ctrl+
p (or
ctrl+
: ) to open the command console, type
light_bright, and press
Enter?
Sorry if nothing works. Hopefully we will figure it out someday...
For thief 1 software mode actually fixes the problem, but without vsync and with really ugly pixellated graphics. Thief 2 and Shock2 don't seem to have support for software mode.
I don't know what dromed is
Yes I have tried safe texture manager.
Nothing happens with that console command.
jtr7 on 14/2/2009 at 03:26
Well that narrows it down. Hopefully someone else can take it from here.
bhlaab on 14/2/2009 at 03:42
It seems to be to be a driver issue that can only be fixed with a new version of ddfix or something similar :erg:
bhlaab on 30/3/2009 at 07:25
HEY anyone fixed this yet!!! :D
no??? :erg:
...alright :(
jtr7 on 9/4/2009 at 07:10
Curiously, the light_bright toggle doesn't work for me more and more often through DromEd. It can't be related, can it? I wonder what's messing with that function?
Last suggestion for you...have you tried rolling back the drivers?
DJ Riff on 9/4/2009 at 07:31
And try to rename thief.exe. Just in case…
Nameless Voice on 9/4/2009 at 10:59
light_bright rarely shows changes ingame - you need to turn it on, then go to the menu and back the game (just hit Esc twice) for changes to take effect.
