TannisRoot on 10/9/2015 at 13:15
Sorry if this is a stupid question! I have a decade old machine that needs an OS to play Thief FMs. Will Windows 7 work on it? Should I bother with Windows XP? What is the cheapest option?
Thanks!
P.S. Specs: I think it has 1 or 2 gigs of ram. The ghx card used to be able to play Skyrim and Call of Pripyat on low.
voodoo47 on 10/9/2015 at 14:16
with less than 2GB of ram and a gpu with no DX10+ capability, I would go for xp. with 2GB or more, and a DX10+ capable gpu, win7 would be a better choice.
as for where to buy those OSes, ebay, most probably.
TannisRoot on 10/9/2015 at 15:05
Thanks Voodoo. Since Windows XP is no longer "supported" does that mean that there are no updates available or that there simply won't be any new updates?
voodoo47 on 10/9/2015 at 15:34
the latter. you should still be able to connect to an update server and get everything that has been released so far. not that you really need to.
DiMarzio on 10/9/2015 at 16:43
I would also consider Linux based OS, like Ubuntu. Tfix should run on Wine, but I have no experience on it.
And that because WinXP might be/become vulnerable.
voodoo47 on 10/9/2015 at 16:48
if Thief FMs are the focus, he'll probably want to go with a windows OS.
Renzatic on 13/9/2015 at 15:45
Yeah, run it on XP. Getting Thief to run on Wine isn't too difficult to do, since it runs practically right out of the box without any tweaking.
But if you have absolutely no Linux experience, then Linux is Linux.
TannisRoot on 18/9/2015 at 19:10
Got XP running, but ran into a weird issue of audio clipping. Updated my drivers but it seems to clip with low frequency content after a certain volume threshold. This includes all sounds, not just Thief game sounds. I typically play at night with headphones and low volume settings but it's mildly annoying.
Read an online guide that suggested it could be BIOS latency times but messing around with the BIOS scares me a bit even if I knew how to get in there...
