Thief 1/2 & SShock 2: DDFix and Enhanced Resolution Patch - discussion - by bikerdude
Timeslip on 21/3/2008 at 08:26
Great. Since that works, 1.2.6 proper is out. The GUI should recognise Shock2.exe now, and the source code is included with the non-GUI version for whoever it was who wanted it.
Simplex on 21/3/2008 at 09:21
Timeslip, I know you know that, but I must once again say that you are doing a fantastic job for the TTLG community. May you live long and prosper! :)
Nameless Voice on 21/3/2008 at 10:49
Excellent work, Timeslip!
Not only does that fix the inventory in SS2, it also fixes in the ingame console (shift+;) in all games.
Any reason not to make those two values defaults in ddfix.ini?
Timeslip on 21/3/2008 at 12:11
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Any reason not to make those two values defaults in ddfix.ini?
It's probably slower, especially at high resolutions. I'll leave it a bit to make sure that no-one is getting any speed problems before making it the default.
bikerdude on 21/3/2008 at 12:21
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Yeah, no prob, Sneaksie.
Also my apologies to Biker, for the rude posts. He was right about vanilla T1:TDP/TG working fine on the newer cards with v169.44.
No probs young man :D
Quote Posted by Timeslip
Great. Since that works, 1.2.6 proper is out. The GUI should recognise Shock2.exe now, and the source code is included with the non-GUI version for whoever it was who wanted it.
Smashing, I`ll update the begining of the thread..
Quote Posted by Simplex
Timeslip, I know you know that, but I must once again say that you are doing a fantastic job for the TTLG community. May you live long and prosper! :)
Timesleip must to be a very modest man, either that or he dosent take compliments very well :D
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BTW. Could someone possibly sum up what to do to use DDFix in SS2, or perhaps created a different thread or added info about DDFix to "running SS2 on XP thread".
I have already amended the thread title ages ago to include SS2.
biker
Hiatus on 21/3/2008 at 12:38
Timeslip
many thanks for ongoing work on your patch for Dark Engine games, another quality update and for including source code. :)
FYI: TDP/TG exe's are both called thief.exe in case you would like to add support for patching them via GUI (as ddfix works fine with them as well, improving visual quality considerably - though some reported crash on exit bug with ddfix applied to TDP/TG).
sNeaksieGarrett on 21/3/2008 at 17:25
Fantastic! Thank you so much Timeslip! Setting the sysmemoverlay to 2 fixed the corrupting text bug for thief 1 and thief 2.:thumb: Vasmorak, rejoice!:cheeky: Oops, I just remembered you updated drivers and it got rid of it. Oh well, if there is any taffers out there that haven't updated and have this problem, download 1.2.6 =)
Timeslip on 21/3/2008 at 17:41
I think that's pretty much everything fixed then, with the exception of the crash on exit thing.
Now for a slightly different question. What limits does thief 2 have on texture depth and resolution? What happens if you try replacing a texture with a 24 bit pcx or something that's 1024x1024 in size?
Hiatus on 21/3/2008 at 17:51
@Timeslip:
what about unlocking 1280x960 res in DE games (sth I asked about in earlier post).Could you look into this - would it be possible to incorporate it in your patch? I'm still on 19'' CRT so I miss this particular res (engine supports 1024x768 and then 1280x1024 - nothing in between). (1152x864 would be nice to have as well, for that matter :)). Both are standard 4:3 so I wonder why the engine doesn't allow them :(..
Hiatus on 21/3/2008 at 17:57
Quote Posted by Timeslip
Now for a slightly different question. What limits does thief 2 have on texture depth and resolution? What happens if you try replacing a texture with a 24 bit pcx or something that's 1024x1024 in size?
I think max res size is 256x256. No idea about tex color depth. NV mentioned that T1/T2 use 8-bit textures for world texturing. I'm sure NV will be able to answer your Q in detail so wait for him :).
(sorry for double post - quoted instead of editing the post)
