ArthurWalden on 31/1/2023 at 17:54
In Thief 2, in the Life of the Party mission, after I get the Cetus Amicus plans, I start having problems with my weapons. At first I can't draw my bow, even when I'm clicking on the left mouse button (which is how I have my controls set up). Within a few minutes, the game freezes or crashes if I try to bring up my weapons. Even my saves are becoming corrupted. I have played this game many times and never encountered this problem before. This is my first time playing with the T2Fix patch, including the Enhanced Thief 2 graphics mod. Has anyone encountered this kind of problem before? I am running Windows 10.
TheRealSlimGarrett on 31/1/2023 at 20:23
Are you playing from disc or Steam? If you're playing from disc, you need to set processor affinity to 1 processor. I found this to solve the issue for me in 8.1 and 10. Had the same issue with TG.
Go into msconfig, select "boot" tab, click "advanced options", click the "number of processors" checkbox and make sure "1" is selected in the dropdown. Click Apply and then reboot your system. When you're done, go back in and uncheck the box and reboot again to get back up on all processors.
TheRealSlimGarrett on 31/1/2023 at 20:24
When you're done playing the game and want to use the PC as normal again I meant.....
ArthurWalden on 31/1/2023 at 21:17
Actually, I'm playing the GOG version with the T2Fix patch. Should I try your suggestion anyway?
ArthurWalden on 31/1/2023 at 21:22
When I tried to change the boot settings, the system told me that it would go into safe mode next time I booted it and that I would have to provide a key or password to recover the computer. I don't have access to that kind of thing.
vfig on 31/1/2023 at 21:58
Quote Posted by ArthurWalden
Actually, I'm playing the GOG version with the T2Fix patch. Should I try your suggestion anyway?
. the GOG version does not need this fix (and i
think by default the Steam version is fine too). and certainly after applying T2Fix the newdark version of the exe it installs also does not need this fix.
vfig on 31/1/2023 at 22:05
Quote Posted by TheRealSlimGarrett
Are you playing from disc or Steam? If you're playing from disc, you need to set processor affinity to 1 processor. I found this to solve the issue for me in 8.1 and 10. Had the same issue with TG.
Go into msconfig, select "boot" tab, click "advanced options", click the "number of processors" checkbox and make sure "1" is selected in the dropdown. Click Apply and then reboot your system. When you're done, go back in and uncheck the box and reboot again to get back up on all processors.
do this to deal with the multicore cpu bug in olddark versions of thief! using msconfig like this affects everything running on your pc, not just thief.
if you really want to run the
original, olddark, disc versions of thief/thief2 on a multicore system without using ddfix, you should use (
https://robpol86.com/imagecfg.html) imagecfg to patch the exe for cpu0 affinity, exactly like the ut99 example on that site. no system-wide changes needed; no rebooting required.
vfig on 31/1/2023 at 22:11
Quote Posted by ArthurWalden
In Thief 2, in the Life of the Party mission, after I get the Cetus Amicus plans, I start having problems with my weapons. At first I can't draw my bow, even when I'm clicking on the left mouse button (which is how I have my controls set up). Within a few minutes, the game freezes or crashes if I try to bring up my weapons. Even my saves are becoming corrupted. I have played this game many times and never encountered this problem before. This is my first time playing with the T2Fix patch, including the Enhanced Thief 2 graphics mod. Has anyone encountered this kind of problem before? I am running Windows 10.
this sounds like the game's memory is being corrupted while it is running; but i couldnt tell you why. i cant suggest anything except to try disabling the mods.
Renault on 31/1/2023 at 22:35
Quote Posted by vfig
no. the GOG version does not need this fix (and i
think by default the Steam version is fine too). and certainly after applying T2Fix the newdark version of the exe it installs also does not need this fix.
The Steam version is definitely Old Dark, so you'll want to patch that up unless you're stubborn.
ArthurWalden on 31/1/2023 at 23:23
Actually, although I had this problem every time after getting the Cetus plans in Life of the Party, I managed to complete the mission, and in the next mission, Precious Cargo, the problem had resolved and my weapons were working again. I just hope this doesn't happen again.
One more thing, I'm playing the game on a laptop. I don't know if this should have any effect like what I've reported.
