Ratinthehat on 31/7/2024 at 12:39

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Resolution Issues

I haven't played Thief since installing Win11, so I'm thinking the issue comes from there, but the game will only play in the default resolution (640x480x32) even though my menu choice of resolutions is huge (native resolution is 3840x2160x32x16:9).

Also, I have to punch my Gamma Adjust to the highest reading in order to see. Maybe its a video card issue.

Anyway, when I change resolutions to 3840x2160 (or any other resolution) the game hangs up solid and I have to shut down the computer and restart. The game will play under 640x480x32, but who wants to play under that resolution (so primitive).

Windows 11 Home ver 23H2
(NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080)
NewDarkLoader 1.4.3
Thief 2 Final 1.25

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Maybe I'm being impatient, but this message has not been responded to and other messages have pushed it back, so I've copied it over to here in hope for help.
Sorry. I should have moved it to General Discussion.

Ratinthehat on 31/7/2024 at 17:25

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Thanks Renault, I updated using T2Fix, but the problem remains.

voodoo47 on 31/7/2024 at 22:04

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try to uncomment force_windowed in cam_ext.cfg, and maybe even try to set a higher resolution in cam.cfg before launching the game.

Ratinthehat on 1/8/2024 at 01:33

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Thanks to everyone for helping. It was ValmontPhl who I think solved my problem. In cam.cfg, I changed game_screen_size to 3840 2160 from 640 480. The Screen Depth was already set to 32. I fired up Thief and resolution was indeed set to 3840x2160x32 and working !

This doesn't explain why I couldn't change it from the Options menu so there may be something sinister going on that might manifest itself later, but as of now, I'm very happy to be able to play Thief again. It's been 2 years and in that time I've been in DarkMod land, enjoying that "version" of Thief.

Thanks again Renault (I didn't even know about the update from 1.25 to 1.27), Taylor, voodoo47, and ValmontPhi.

Ratinthehat on 1/8/2024 at 17:15

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An added note:

My suspicions led me to fire up Thief Gold to see what would happen. Same thing! The resolution default was 1600x900 and when I tried to change via Options, like Thief 2, it would turn to a postage stamp window in the top left and I would lose mouse control. If I had other programs running, I could Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up Task Manager, but without a mouse, I could only "Tab" through menu choices, which didn't matter because I got no response. So I think these games were running in the background but I had no access to them, and they prevented me from doing anything else. So, turn computer off and turn it on again and start fresh.

It "seems" to only apply to Thief games. I'm playing Far Cry 6 without any issues. Haven't tried other older games though. Right now I'm just happy to have Thief 2 playable again.