Hello everyone,

new to the forum as a member, but have been an unregistered reader for years!

This mission looks really promising, especially considering that I can't get enough of "thieves highway / rooftop" and angelwatch-like scenarios. Have started the mission and played for a good while, but had to stop because of recurring graphic problems / errors - usually it was whilst entering a new area (I think rooms in most cases), when all of a sudden the whole room turns into snow-white textures. This stops when I move around for a bit, but in certain areas it happens again and again. Have to add that I played TG with TFix 1.27, but this was before the mission update to v1.1, so maybe the author has fixed the problem with his update by now? Or is it due to my pc, do I need a clean and fresh re-installation of TG or something like that? Help would be greatly appreciated as I was really looking forward to finishing and fully enjoying this mission. Excuse grammar or spelling errors since I'm no native English speaker ;-)

So long!

You're probably not getting any answers because you fail to include basic information like your GPU (one or two?). What's your operating system? Is thief installed in program files and you're using win7 with UAC enabled or something? Are you using the built-in FMSel or something else to install the mission? Are you using any graphics mods? Have you modified cam_ext.cfg? Ideally copy paste your cam_ext.cfg into pastebin. Ideally delete your THIEF.log, then play until you hit a white texture, quit and post THIEF.log into pastebin.

Try adding precache_d3d_textures or precache_d3d_textures 2 in cam_ext.cfg (in your root thief folder) using notepad or any text editor.

Try adding d3d_disp_managed_textures into cam_ext.cfg.

Instead of deleting a folder, you can also rename it to, for example, "old FM dir", then create a new folder (with the same name the former one had before it was renamed by you) and only put in the absolutely necessary things, such as the "Whispers Below the Cobblestone" mission and its savegames. You should then be able to verify whether the problem still exists, or whether one of your actions has "cured" the game somehow. You can also rename the folder in which Thief is installed and then make another installation. If that one still has the problems you described, then it was not a damaged Thief installation.

Your graphics card should really be okay for the mission. I played it with a low-end card and still did not have problems like you described. Even attempts to "provoke" the bug did not succeed, the area with the relic had no visible problems at all. Memory usage also did not go up notably, so I still can't understand what is causing this texture problem you described.-scratches head-

I also do not think that the problems arise because of the way you patched your Thief installation. I rather think that some uncommon things coming together cause all this on your machine, but not on most others. I would still think of the graphics card and its drivers, but I doubt that the general specifications of the card are the problem. Just as with zappenduster's video card and some uncommon texture resolutions in v1.0 of the mission caused visual glitches for him, but not, for example, on my computer.

Currently, I have no new idea on how to proceed. Digging for the TG CDs, copying the current installation and FM folder, and then re-installing it and trying v1.1 of the mission again, or loading one of your old savegames - that sounds like the most promising idea so far.

It would, however, be interesting to know whether someone else having the same video card (and maybe even the same Windows version) would also suffer from the same problems - or not.