Thief 1/2 & SShock 2: DDFix and Enhanced Resolution Patch - discussion

Lady Taffer on 16/1/2012 at 11:43

Thank you. :thumb:

My next question, though, is should I download the ddfix files the way it instructs on the first page of this thread, or would downloading and installing the tafferpatcher work just as well for both Thief 1 and 2?

Lady Taffer on 17/1/2012 at 00:32

*siigh* New problem.

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Go to Start, then Run, then type d:\setup.exe -lgntforce, where d:\ is your CDrom/DVDrom drive. (note: that's -lgntforce, lowercase "L". If you're unsure, copy and paste it from here.)

So I entered that into "run," but it still didn't work. Just got an error message telling me Windows couldn't find "d:\setup.exe -lgntforce"

EDIT: Nevermind, I solved that problem. Now, onto installing Thief 2. .

Lady Taffer on 17/1/2012 at 01:09

Ok, all seems to be running smoothly with Thief 1 (but it looks like I'm gonna have to set the affinity to CPU 0 each time I start up the game to keep it from freezing up, just like I had to do with my old computer) but I do have one problem left: the intro/cutscene videos don't work and I was trying to follow these instructions:

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Alternatively:
Scrooge's Permanent Movie Fix
1) Locate (use "Search") the file named "regsvr32.exe". It is located in the Windows SYSTEM directory (if 9x/ME) or SYSTEM32 (if 2K/XP). Copy it in your thief installation.

I don't really understand what it means by "thief installation." That's just my Thief game folder, right?

As an aside, the colors/gamma and resolution ingame look rather odd and very different (darker, harder to see and a little bit pixelated. Also a lot of the colors aren't what I remember) and fiddling with the gamma scale ingame doesn't do much to change it. Is there some other way to fix this and get it back to looking the way it did on my old computer, or is there nothing I can do and I'll just have to get used to how this looks on a newer widescreen monitor?

wonderfield on 17/1/2012 at 02:44

DDFix will handle processor affinity for you. You won't need to deal with that manually.

With respect to video playback, DDFix also has that covered: just launch the processes with escalated privileges (i.e. run them in administrator mode). Thief2.exe should default to running as administrator when you launch it normally, but Thief.exe will require you to do so explicitly. You can define this is as a launch preference by going into the executable's properties window.

Lady Taffer on 17/1/2012 at 05:16

Ok, when I did that it fixed the videos, but now the game won't work at all. When the mission starts, the game just freezes up. :nono:

wonderfield on 17/1/2012 at 19:37

I don't know why the game's behavior would change while it's running with escalated privileges (it shouldn't). I'm afraid I have no advice for you.

sNeaksieGarrett on 17/1/2012 at 20:00

So the briefing videos play normally in-game but when you hit play to go to the game it freezes? Did you perhaps change your resolution settings? If you have a widescreen monitor, i think the newest ddfix has it built in but older builds required an additional widescreen patch as well. In any case, you should also check to make sure that cam.cfg and ddfix.ini match in terms of the resolution. I don't know if any of that helps but thought I'd give it a shot.

Lady Taffer on 18/1/2012 at 06:57

I used the ddfix downloads found on the first post of this thread: (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449) I assume those are the latest? If not, where would I find the latest downloads?
Also, how do I check to see if cam.cfg and ddfix.ini match?

wonderfield on 18/1/2012 at 16:00

You don't need to make sure they match. That was only true of older versions.

Lady Taffer on 18/1/2012 at 18:31

Well, I'm stumped. Before I tried to run the game in Administrator mode the screen resolution would auto-correct for the game whenever I started it up. Is this significant somehow in figuring out the problem?

If not, I guess I'll have to go back to my previous plan of doing this:

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Scrooge's Permanent Movie Fix
1) Locate (use "Search") the file named "regsvr32.exe". It is located in the Windows SYSTEM directory (if 9x/ME) or SYSTEM32 (if 2K/XP). Copy it in your thief installation.

But I still need clarification on whether or not the "thief installation" is the same as my thief game folder.