Morgothom on 14/4/2011 at 02:09

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hello my taffer friends.
i hope to find some sort of solution to my strange problems. i have never seen anyone reporting this so it might be very special.

im running on a intel 6600 dual core with a hd 4870 and im trying to get all three elements in my title to coexist peacefully together....
i know that they run on exactly that hardwareconfiguration, because i had it before and it was sweet. now after i had to reinstall windows xp i found that any version of ddfix higher than 1.3.9 stopped working. completely. when i try to run a mission it loads and when its supposed to show me the ingame world i see a black screen instantly followed by the windows error message.

ok for now, i though, then i just use 1.3.9, it worked before right? wrong. my poor thief.exe gets an overkill with 900fps+ and my gameworld explodes when i press the forward button on my keyboard (no really it does).
without the ability to limit the framerate in my game its just not playable. and yea my drivers cant be set to vsync everything, because amd thought it a good idea to let that be handled by all the fancy in-game menues the games nowadays have and removed that feature from my cataclyst control
that is just one of the minor problems because i can use the mediaplayer-fix. still its tedious.

on with the odyssey:
installing ntex wasnt a big deal, except it also gave me the blackscreen at first, untill i found out that the "+.\netxdds" doesnt work in my darksinst.cfg. i have to use the full paths.
now when i try to apply the enhancement pack it goes into fuck-you-mode and refuses to work at all.
->uninstall thief-> install thief-> patch to 1.18 -> running -> applying ddfix -> applying enhancement pack = works
now adding ntex into the mix seemed like a good idea because i did it wrong the first time around(installing ntex first and then ep is a bad idea as i heared). when i do that it either goes into fy-mode again or it starts and even gives me a gameworld but it looks like ass. i have those weird white and washed out textures and i cant help but feel like garrett landed in the poor-mans version of mirrors edge :/ and my bow has gone missing.

after fiddlin with the .cfg and .crf files i found out that i can just put the ntex textures into the original .crf files. i tried it and it worked with varying success. i have some of the better textures but others are either black or in variation pink/blue/black striped. and my bow is still missing
and its not even the same textures bugging up all the time. when i start the game again it might be a torch instead of a tree thats black. or a bunk bed instead of a chest.

and thats just when its working. 2 out of 3 times my game gives me the blackscreen+windowserror after loading. error message says its ddfix that is the problem.
i have no idea and im getting very frustrated because i ran out of options and variations.
i tried to install new versions of ddfix several times but it just flat-out refuses to work.
thats just the original game weirdly enough, all fms i played so far work like they should.

i hope the wall of text i created doesnt intimidate you too much and i thank thee for thy help in advance!
thx

voodoo47 on 24/4/2011 at 06:40

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you should not mess with the crf files.. I see you are using windows xp+ati hd card,that means you will have to use catalyst9.3 or older.. you can try (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449) DDFix 1.4.5 (by Si02),it may work better for you.