sillypants on 26/2/2003 at 23:02
Hello,
I ran into a problem using tgpatch_basic.exe and found a workaround if anyone
needs it. (I searched, but didn't find the answer to this.)
After I installed the tgpatch for my Thief 1.33 installation, thief.exe crashed to
the desktop immediately after execution.
Turns out that since I have my installation in e:\program files\thief the resname
field in install.cfg gets too long for thief to parse. My solution was to move the
e:\program files\thief\tgpatch directory to e:\tgpatch and edit install.cfg to reflect
that change.
Now it works fine.
So to recap, the solution is simply to get the resname field in install.cfg short
enough for thief.exe to not crash.
Hope this helps!
Durinda D'Bry on 13/5/2010 at 13:25
Found this while looking for solution: I've got new netbook (Windows 7 Starter) and would move my Thief DP/MA installation from old notebook (Windows XP Home). I applied widescreen patch on top of already "DDFixed" installations and found that TMA works fine but TDP crashes to desktop. When I edited install.cfg and removed <>\tgpatch inclusion it started. First thought it is due to some problems with resources in tgpatch folder (who knows, perhaps texture format became somehow incompatible to DirectX 11 or video drivers) but then found this post and checked - really, size of res_base (or how it is called) parameter makes sense! Funny bug - XP worked fine, means implemented string processing is platform dependent:)
baeuchlein on 13/5/2010 at 16:38
Actually, the Thief games seem to use several services provided by the underlying operating system, resulting in different behaviour depending on the OS sometimes. For example, if I save my game, type in a short description and then recognize that there's a mis-spelling near the beginning of that line, I have to delete the rest of the line with the backspace key and re-type it in Windows XP. If I use Windows 98 SE, however, I can also use the cursor keys to move the cursor to the mistake and correct it, without having to erase almost everything and then type it in once again.
Durinda D'Bry on 13/5/2010 at 19:18
Sorry, I forgot and just figured out that I did it - in new file structure I already renamed folders and changed everything in config to new names. Thus path to Thief DP folder comes 2 characters longer and it is caused crash due to bug originally sillypants described long time ago. Thus it is nothing about Windows differences just my distraction.
