Zeno McDohl on 29/1/2009 at 05:57
I have installed Thief 2 in Windows Vista.
-Dual monitors
-Widescreen
-Dual core
-DX10
-GeForce 8600 GT
It crashes when booting the game. I have tried:
-skip_intro in cam.cfg
-Every compatibility mode
-The imagecfg to run in one core
-Uncommented safe_texture_manager in user.cfg
-UAC is off
-iv5play.exe doesn't properly run
And nothing helps.
Windows Media Player doesn't play the AVI files, so I assume that's related.
What else should I try?
bob_doe_nz on 29/1/2009 at 05:58
Disable UAC and then install the indeo codecs from the CD
Zeno McDohl on 29/1/2009 at 06:03
Ah, right. The AVIs don't play, so that must be it.
iv5play.exe is telling me I have newer versions of everything and that it won't install anything though.
[EDIT] I think I got the installer running, but it then said
Quote:
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Self Registration Failure
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The file C:\Windows\system32\ir41_32.ax failed to self register.
This could be caused by a corrupt registry or by corrupt or improperly
installed DirectX Media runtime libraries.
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OK
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Biohazard on 29/1/2009 at 06:13
Moving to the Tech Help forum!
Yandros on 29/1/2009 at 12:51
With dual core, widescreen and Vista you'll want to install (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449) DDFix and the widescreen patch. DDFix should prevent your crash, although unless you can resolve the codec issue you won't have movies. Also, there's no known way to get fog in Vista. :(
Zeno McDohl on 29/1/2009 at 23:00
Ran DDFix GUI, 1280x1024 resolution.
Ran DarkWidescreen.bat, 1440x900, 100 FOV
Quote:
thief2.exe (2662400 bytes) not found, but found 2666496 bytes, skipping...
Copying and patching 1 file ...
thief2.exe (2662445 bytes) not found, but found 2666496 bytes, skipping...
dromed.exe not found, skipping...
shocked.exe not found, skipping...
dromed.exe not found, skipping...
dromed.exe not found, skipping...
FAILURE:
No matching executables were found
Stopping installation because of error.
Stopping installation because of error.
ERROR Installing [Widescreen Mod for Dark Engine Games v6r2], rolling back to pr
evious state
Will uninstall 1 files for [widescreen\DarkWidescreen.tp2] component 0.
Restoring backed-up [widescreen\backup/0/thief2.exe]
Uninstalled 1 files for [widescreen\DarkWidescreen.tp2] component 0.
ERROR: Failure("No matching executables were found")
Saving This Log:
NOT INSTALLED DUE TO ERRORS Widescreen Mod for Dark Engine Games v6r2
Press ENTER to exit.
Still crashing.
Zeno McDohl on 18/2/2009 at 06:24
I'm in XP now, still can't get it running.
