SHUMADINGI on 29/5/2025 at 17:24
Hellllo everyone, :D, happy to be here!
This is my first post on the forum as I have not yet run across an issue this annoying that could not be fixed by consulting this wonderful community.
I recently reinstalled Thief 2 and of course the obligatory T2Fix with the included Dromed toolkit as I want to finish a level I had been working on. Besides the very helpful tweaks suggested on Nick Dablin's website (object limits, username etc) I have made no alterations to the files. I have done all of the above in the past on previous installations without issue and with the current one everything in dromed works perfectly except for one small thing.
When I enter game mode to test my level, all is well and good. When I return to edit mode it exits the game and returns to dromed as expected. However, rather than showing the usual four displays (the 3d and x,y,z wireframe views) I am instead presented with one featuring whatever the last frame of the game mode was. I can access all the menus and it seems like everything behind the scenes is still working other than the display. I can even return to game mode but the same issue persists afterwards. Alt+E and Alt+G give the same results.:confused:
This isn't the end of the world as I can always just save, restart Dromed and continue but it makes the level-creation process way less streamlined and more frustrating than before. I have not been able to find anyone mentioning the same issue. Has anyone experienced something similar? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
john9818a on 30/5/2025 at 12:16
It sounds like you might be using one window of dromed as solo. If you right click on the one window it should give you a box of choices. Click on unsolo and hopefully that will return your dromed layout back to normal.
SHUMADINGI on 30/5/2025 at 15:09
Quote Posted by john9818a
It sounds like you might be using one window of dromed as solo. If you right click on the one window it should give you a box of choices. Click on unsolo and hopefully that will return your dromed layout back to normal.
Thanks for taking time to answer!
I cannot interact with the window in dromed it's just a static image of whatever I last saw in game mode with light gem, health etc and the menus above with none of the usual options given by right-clicking. Going to try and post a screenshot to show what I mean.
R Soul on 30/5/2025 at 18:18
There could be some config settings causing problems. Just a hunch, but open Dromed.cfg and search for editor_disable_gdi. It may be in there on two lines, if both are commented out with a ; at the start the setting is off. In that case check the value of edit_screen_depth. If it's 32, then the gdi setting needs to be enabled. If you don't want to use the gdi setting, the screen depth needs to be 16.
There could be other settings too, but it may be necessary to keep trying things to see if you find the solution.
It could be an issue with your graphics card drivers, so make sure they're up to date. If the problem persists, or if the drivers are already up to date, it may be necessary to try an older version, but the latter step could cause its own problems with any other games, so best to leave that till you're out of options.
SHUMADINGI on 31/5/2025 at 04:56
Quote Posted by R Soul
There could be some config settings causing problems. Just a hunch, but open Dromed.cfg and search for editor_disable_gdi. It may be in there on two lines, if both are commented out with a ; at the start the setting is off. In that case check the value of edit_screen_depth. If it's 32, then the gdi setting needs to be enabled. If you don't want to use the gdi setting, the screen depth needs to be 16.
There could be other settings too, but it may be necessary to keep trying things to see if you find the solution.
It could be an issue with your graphics card drivers, so make sure they're up to date. If the problem persists, or if the drivers are already up to date, it may be necessary to try an older version, but the latter step could cause its own problems with any other games, so best to leave that till you're out of options.
Legend! So I went into my dromed.cfg and had a look through. There were indeed two "editor_disable_gdi" lines and two "edit_screen_depth" lines. I uncommented both the disable gdi lines and made sure the screen depth for both was 16 and hey presto all is well once again. Thanks for the help, I would have never figured that out on my own.
