-8-DEAMON-8- on 1/4/2010 at 16:04

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I try to install the DarkWidescreen into Thief Gold.
But when i start the game everything is just black. I hear the menu sound and can click on the menyalternatives. But i cant see something. I have selected 1680 x 1080 and tried both 100 and 90 for the FOV.

Why is everything black?

Kolya on 1/4/2010 at 23:13

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Try disabling your secondary monitor.

BG_HHaunt on 21/6/2010 at 19:12

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I have a problem. I've recently bought a widescreen monitor and returned to thief (haven't played for almost a year). After setting the resolution to 1680x1050 everything works well, except for the light gem and the text under weapons,inventory items or when frobbing a sign. The light gem is too big and the text is too small. Is there a fix for this?
Also I noticed that after I installed this mod (or maybe it's ddfix) when I am in menus or reading a scroll or a book, there is a strange noise coming from the computer, for some reason it stops when I am moving the mouse and then again continues when I stop moving it. What's wrong?

Nameless Voice on 21/6/2010 at 20:46

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To be fair, this thread is linked as the discussion thread for the widescreen mod in the DDFix / Widescreen sticky.

How is the gem "too big"? As far as I know, the gem is consistently scaled by Thief based on resolution? You can adjust the values in dark.cfg by changing vismeter_zoom - I don't know the exact specifics of what the value means, so you'll need to try experimenting.

All text in Dark is bitmap fonts, so it won't scale, full stop.
You'd have to replace it with a custom-made bitmap font with larger letters.
You need to get a screen that's good enough quality to read small text.

Somnus on 18/5/2011 at 22:27

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I'm aware this is the SS2 forum, but it's also the DDFix/Widescreen thread.

After running the widescreen mod on Thief Gold, no matter what resolution I choose, the game will simply crash on launch. I already installed DDFix. Would really like to play this game in a non-stretched resolution, if anyone else has had a similar problem (whether with Thief or System Shock).