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

ticky on 27/5/2012 at 15:32

Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett

You could use tafferpatcher, but if you want to troubleshoot with what you got, check your cam.cfg for the resolution and report back. Also, check ddfix.ini to see if there's gwidth or gheight

Okay, my cam.cfg is correct (the resolution there is 1024x768, just like what I set), but in ddfix.ini, the two mentioned words are not present (gwidth, gheight).

sNeaksieGarrett on 27/5/2012 at 23:12

Good, you don't want those in ddfix.ini

Don't really know what to tell you... But for my thief2.exe I have set in compatibility options Disable desktop composition and Disable display scaling on high dpi settings

ticky on 28/5/2012 at 07:43

Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett

How to set those?

Also, the only problem is the flashing menu. If I try it really hard, I can move the cursor to the right place and begin a game - the game runs well. But clicking in the menu is a pain in the a_s this way. Is it possible to set some value in the ddfix.ini file to solve this?

sNeaksieGarrett on 28/5/2012 at 14:55

I'm not sure what causes that. You said your res was 1024 x 768, so the game is running at a valid res.

~~To set the compatibility things i said, in windows go to your thief 2 folder and right click on thief2.exe> Properties > then Compatibility tab.~~

Oops, my bad. You're on windows xp, I thought you were on windows 7. Sorry. You probably should just go ahead and try tafferpatcher, but I won't be able to help you with that so you should post in the tafferpatcher thread.

Orobas on 24/7/2012 at 02:07

Okay, I am trying to get this installed on a Win7 system. I'm installing the Thief Complete Collection put out by Mastertronics. I have run ddfix_1.5.11.zip, DDFix-Thief2.zip, and DarkWidescreen-v6r3.zip in that order. Each time I get to play less and less T2. Now its telling me that I do not have DirectX7 or higher installed. In Nameless Voice's DDFix and Enhanced Resolution Patch (including widescreen support) thread, it says that this occurs when ddfix.dll is missing due to ddfix_1.5.11.zip not being installed. I'm confused and heartbroken. I'm sure there is a solution right?

sNeaksieGarrett on 24/7/2012 at 04:34

You've installed ddfix to the root directory of thief, correct? You're using a prepatched exe, correct? That message doesn't make sense if you've installed ddfix properly.

Try setting thief 2 to windows xp sp2 compatibility.

MsLedd on 24/8/2012 at 16:55

No, I have not read the 100 pages of this thread to find my answer... sue me, I'm lazy.

I'm trying to run Thief on Windows 7...

I have followed the instructions on the (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449) DDFix and Enhanced Resolution Patch (including widescreen support) page. Installed DDFix & patched exe files to Thief gold & Thief II directories, ran the widescreen patch... When I run either Thief or Thief2: NOTHING happens. Task manager shows the processes running (thief.exe or thief2.exe), but that's it. The only thing I can get to happen is if I use compatibility mode, I get a DirectX 7 error.

Any kind soul care to point me to what I should do next? :cheeky:

Al_B on 24/8/2012 at 18:21

Hmmm.... it might be that we want to replace that thread now that there are better alternatives. For Thief 1 or Thief Gold grab the (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134733) TFix patch, run the installer and point it to the directory on your hard drive where Thief is installed. You can choose which mods to install but personally I just go with all of them.

For Thief 2, grab (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131106) Tafferpatcher. Again, run the installer and point it to your Thief 2 directory on your hard drive.

You shouldn't need to enable compatibility mode for either game. The only setting that both need is to run as administrator and both of the above patches enable it as well as including ddfix and ensuring that the games only run on a single CPU core.

Videos may be a problem even after installing the above - the simplest solution is normally to start a command prompt in administrator mode run "regsvr32 c:\windows\SysWOW64\ir50_32.dll" if you're using 64 bit Windows 7, or "regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ir50_32.dll" if you're using 32 bit Windows 7.

MsLedd on 24/8/2012 at 19:06

Thanks Al! Downloading Tafferpatcher now... it's going veeerrryy slooowwly.

MsLedd on 24/8/2012 at 20:03

(sigh) okay, got the TFix installed, but when I ran Tafferpatcher I get this:

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And the TFix made Thief Gold run, but if I click to skip the video the game stops working. And the widescreen patch makes it not work at all.

(whimper) :(

I dunno if re-installing Thief II with Tafferpatcher will make a difference, but damned if I know where my Thief discs are!