baeuchlein on 16/2/2016 at 13:27

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You can also try to right-click on the mission you want to play and then select "Install" from the pop-up menu. This should unzip the mission without starting it. After that, you could exit FMSel, start it again and select "Play" with the already unzipped mission. At least we might find out if unzipping is the problem, or rather playing the mission - I'd suspect the latter.

Another idea: Is it possible that Windows 10 automatically regards C:\Games as a "system folder" or some kind of protected folder? (Maybe Win10 equals Gollum and C:\Games equals his "precious" from "Lord of the Rings"?:ebil:) In that case, moving the FM directory/folder to somewhere out of C:\Games could help. Or maybe you even have to install T2 NewDark itself in a folder outside of C:\Games?

EDIT: Ah, I just read that you already tried something like C:\Thief2. So it's not something about C:\Games.

Last idea for now: When I once had to install T2 NewDark on an ancient Windows XP without any Service pack installed, FMSel did not work. I think one of the required updates (for MS Visual C++ runtimes or DirectX) could not be installed. T2 NewDark, however, worked fine, as well as Darkloader for that T2 NewDark installation. Maybe there's something about DirectX or MS Visual C++ that's different with Win10? Does someone know whether any such updates are needed for Win10?

DromEd_Newbie on 17/2/2016 at 15:26

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Maybe a fresh install of Win10 will work. I am currently running an upgrade from Win8.1.

Edit: Then again, that won't be helpful to people who don't know how to perform a clean Win10 install yet.

I'll keep digging.

voodoo47 on 10/3/2016 at 06:27

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there should be a crash.dmp and thief2.log in your T2 folder after the crash. zip those files up, upload to some online storage, and post the link.

voodoo47 on 11/3/2016 at 00:14

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looks like you didn't share the file properly (you need to set it so anyone can download).

voodoo47 on 11/3/2016 at 08:59

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ok, first quick thing is, move the game out of program files, that is a bad place to be (safest thing to do is to reinstall completely into a different location, and patching with TafferPatcher again). also, did you try the DX6 safemode?

also try this - edit cam_ext.cfg with notepad, find ;d3d_disp_no_rgb10_buf and remove the semicolon, so it would look like this;

save and exit, and see whether the game will start.