peruvianskys on 18/7/2011 at 18:22
I'm sorry to keep filling this place up with threads asking for help, I'm just really excited to play Thief 2 and I think I'm getting closer. I downloaded TafferPatcher and it works fine but on my 1920x1080 the colors are washed out and in general the image is just too bright, like I'm playing with sunlight directly on the screen (akin to having my monitor's brightness setting up all the way). I disabled bloom and post-processing and pretty much everything else but still it seems that way. However, when I change the resolution to 800x600 (the default for the original) the menu looks like the appropriate darkness! Hooray, I said!
However, the game immediately crashes after loading a weird technicolor level for about six seconds. It says "the requested screen mode could not be set." Is there any way to make the game playable in 800x600 (which would fix my brightness problem I think) or another way I've missed to make the image seem less washed out and overly bright? I've gone through the DDFix .ini and I've toyed around but I can't for the life of me find out what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I'm on Vista with an Nvidia GT 260, by the way.
Azaran on 18/7/2011 at 22:30
Check and see if the resolution in ddfix.ini matches the one in cam.cfg. That's usually the problem.
peruvianskys on 18/7/2011 at 23:33
I thought that was it but I've made sure the screen sizes match, so that's not it (unless there's a third spot I'm missing?). Thanks though!
Azaran on 19/7/2011 at 03:25
Hmmm, weird. You could try disabling visual themes and desktop composition. Also, try removing the ddfix patch and repatching it again, and maybe try another version of ddfix.
peruvianskys on 19/7/2011 at 18:12
It turns out that 1024x768 works fine, so I'm just running that! I'll keep experimenting with different ones before I work out what's the best. thanks though!
I feel dumb but I can't see how to delete this thread or close it, can you do that for me? You can just leave it up, but I don't mind if you take it down to save space. Thanks for all you help.
