Neil_McCauley on 11/7/2011 at 18:31
Quote Posted by fibanocci
Does it work on a hard drive now? This has to be done first.
As for the portable version. If you edit the darkinst.cfg like this
;cd_path .\
install_path .\
language english
resname_base .\res+.\
load_path .\+.\
script_module_path .\+.\
movie_path .\movies+\.movies
this should work on a flash drive. It's working for me.
COOL, thank you for this! I haven't installed it yet on my desktop. Another thing I thought of: when I installed it with TafferPatcher, it asked what version of DirectX. The default was 10 and I just went with that. Should I have chosen a lower version?
sNeaksieGarrett on 11/7/2011 at 19:18
@Neil:
I'm using windows 7 64 bit. For thief2.exe, I have Disable Desktop Composition checked, and everything else unchecked. (Including compatibility setting.) You might try that.
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Also, when setting compatibility, you should try windows 2000, windows xp, and windows vista to see if any of those help the situation. Also, as was mentioned before, the movies may be an issue, so what i'd do is just comment out the movies line entirely. I think what can happen with the movies is that if they are unable to play properly, it will cause black screen and then crash.
Neil_McCauley on 12/7/2011 at 16:42
OK so I've installed Thief 2 with TafferPatcher on my XP desktop (SP3, NVIDIA 7300 GT), this time with ddfix 1.1.1. 1.5.5 didn't work; the menu came up and it just flickered. 1.1.1 works fine - the menus and movies are stretched to widescreen, however (I entered the resolution of my Dell 16:10 monitor in the setup). Can that be fixed?
I started the game and it was fine. I haven't done enough to see if weather effects work.
Now to try it on the USB drive on the Win7 laptop.
sNeaksieGarrett on 13/7/2011 at 00:28
in addition to what fibanocci said, you only need the widescreen patch for older ddfix releases. I don't recall when it was first added, but yeah, you need the patch if you use ddfix 1.1.1
Neil_McCauley on 13/7/2011 at 01:13
I couldn't get the widescreen patch to work. I reinstalled with ddfix 1.5.5, works fine on my XP machine, still get the black screen in Win7. Tried compatibility with Win 2000 and above, same result. Compatibility with Win 98 same, only in a window.
I'm about ready to give up. In addition to being able to play it on my work laptop from a USB drive, it's also a test to see if Thief 2 can run in Win7 64-bit, as I'm considering upgrading on the aforementioned desktop computer. I will not if I can't play Thief games.
sNeaksieGarrett on 13/7/2011 at 03:52
Yeah, I'd say since you have two machines and you're able to get thief to run fine on one, keep that particular machine on windows xp, since the other one has windows 7. Also , may i suggest that you check to see if thief 2 is indeed running on only one core? You can do this by opening the processes manager (alt tab out of game and then hit ctrl + alt + del) right clicking thief.exe , set affinity.
Did you try my suggested settings I posted? (no compatibility mode, disable desktop composition?)
Neil_McCauley on 13/7/2011 at 14:35
Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett
Yeah, I'd say since you have two machines and you're able to get thief to run fine on one, keep that particular machine on windows xp, since the other one has windows 7. Also , may i suggest that you check to see if thief 2 is indeed running on only one core? You can do this by opening the processes manager (alt tab out of game and then hit ctrl + alt + del) right clicking thief.exe , set affinity.
Did you try my suggested settings I posted? (no compatibility mode, disable desktop composition?)
Yep, tried no compatibility and disable desktop composition. I'll have to check about the affinity. One thing though is that when the game starts and there's the black screen, I hear the menu - I've read about this a couple of times.
I need it to work on Win7 as the laptop is my work laptop (hence wanting to run the game from a USB drive), and I want to upgrade the home machine.
I don't know if it will help, but here's the info on the graphics chip on the laptop:
Intel® HD Graphics (Core i5)
Report Date: 7/13/2011
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 9:47:25
Driver Version: 8.15.10.2119
Operating System: Windows 7 (6.1.7600)
Default Language: English (United States)
DirectX* Version: 10.0
Physical Memory: 7983 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 32 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 1696 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 52 MB
Processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5
Processor Speed: 2527 MHz
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 0046
Device Revision: 02
* Accelerator Information *
Accelerator in Use: Intel(R) HD Graphics
Video BIOS: 2009.0
Current Graphics Mode: 1366 by 768
ffox on 13/7/2011 at 15:14
Quote Posted by Neil_McCauley
... it's also a test to see if Thief 2 can run in Win7 64-bit
A large number of us are running Thief 2 (& 1) in Win 7 64 with no problems.
I have 2 such PCs and am using ddfix 1.3.11 (which seems to work well for a lot of people) with the widescreen patch on both.
The resolution in ddfix.ini and cam.cfg is 1280 x 720 on the PC with a 16:9 monitor and 1440 x 900 on the one with a 16:10 monitor.
The 16:9 one has a Radeon 5830 graphics card, Catalyst 10.3 driver, the 16:10 one uses the on-board NVIDIA GeForce 7025/NVIDIA nForce 630a with 8.16.11.9107 driver.
Neil_McCauley on 13/7/2011 at 15:37
Quote Posted by ffox
A large number of us are running Thief 2 (& 1) in Win 7 64 with no problems.
I have 2 such PCs and am using ddfix 1.3.11 (which seems to work well for a lot of people) with the widescreen patch on both.
The resolution in ddfix.ini and cam.cfg is 1280 x 720 on the PC with a 16:9 monitor and 1440 x 900 on the one with a 16:10 monitor.
The 16:9 one has a Radeon 5830 graphics card, Catalyst 10.3 driver, the 16:10 one uses the on-board NVIDIA GeForce 7025/NVIDIA nForce 630a with 8.16.11.9107 driver.
Did you install the game with TafferPatcher? Or install the game, install ddfix?
