twhalen2600 on 10/6/2017 at 21:38

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I've been spoiled by not experiencing many problems with Thief and Thief 2 under the NewDark patch. However, in the past week I've started noticing "squares" around some light sources. I first noticed it in "Breathing Corpses" and last night saw it in "Gathering at the Inn". In the latter mission, I also noticed the snowflakes appearing as squares without any detail. I have included a screenshot and a video (both from "Gathering") below and also pasted my display specs.

I don't know why this started happening - it's on a PC that has played the Dark Engine games near flawlessly for over four years now. The only recent change is that I installed the Xsplit Gamecaster program, which I had running while playing Thief 2. Thinking this was the problem, I closed Xsplit and ran Thief 2 again, but the light problem remained. Again, this isn't happening with all light sources, only some.

I had NewDark v.1.24 at the time I first noticed it. This morning I ran the latest Tafferpatcher (v. 2.0.18) without installing any extra enhancements, but the issue has remained.

I appreciate any time and help offered and will be happy to provide further information. If this issue was resolved elsewhere please let me know (I did a quick search and found nothing, though I swear I've read about something the same as this or similar to this in these forums before...)

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h-nFouzGtfk/WTxiKzrFO-I/AAAAAAAAA6o/mFK6nEJrELU9TZOt2OeS5dIY9dQvvOewACLcB/s1600/Thief%2B2%2BFinal%2B1.25%2B2017-06-10_16-07-14.jpg


[video=youtube;uCbeZF2ZJLs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCbeZF2ZJLs&feature=youtu.be[/video]


My display specs (from dxdiag):
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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 660 Ti
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1183&SUBSYS_36603842&REV_A1
Display Memory: 4042 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1994 MB
Shared Memory: 2047 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: S220HQL
Monitor Id: ACR0347
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver File Version: 9.18.0013.1407 (English)
Driver Version: 9.18.13.1407
DDI Version: 11
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 2/9/2013 22:25:27, 17987192 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-52C3-11CF-8D5E-6D161CC2C435}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x1183
SubSys ID: 0x36603842
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Driver Strong Name: oem18.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1:Section062:9.18.13.1407:pci\ven_10de&dev_1183
Rank Of Driver: 00E02001
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C ModeVC1_C ModeWMV9_C
Deinterlace Caps: [...]
D3D9 Overlay: Supported
DXVA-HD: Supported
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled

twhalen2600 on 11/6/2017 at 01:21

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Thank you! That was the problem. I didn't have "bitmap.crf" in my RES folder. I copied it from my CD and it works now.

And...

I now know why it just started happening. About a week ago, I attempted to extract fam.crf so I could view its contents. I've done it before on other PCs, but this time I was very tired, so extracted the folder's contents directly into RES and not into its own subfolder. I was so tired and frustrated I didn't bother undoing the copy - I was looking for "undo paste" at the time - so I went through and deleted each individual file seeing it as punishment for my stupid mistake. Of course it was idiotic and, though I thought I was preserving the necessary crf files from memory, in the process I must have deleted the bitmap folder.

Lesson learned - never do stupid things! :rolleyes:

Yandros on 13/6/2017 at 11:05

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It doesn't have to be WinZip specifically, any program which can open .zip files will open a .crf as well.