SeriousToni on 2/3/2020 at 00:01
Dear TTLG veterans,
after years I reinstalled Thief 2 to witness the story of this game. I also tried some FMs. I installed it using TFix 1.27 that comes along with NewDark 1.27.
But whenever I encounter spiders and they see me, the game crashes. The sound gets stuck in a small loop with the spiders "alert noise" and closes. I must restart the computer to make the noise begone. This happens in the original missions (like when you enter the butcher's room "who makes the best steaks" in mission 2) as well as in FMs (like Bafford's Manor, where you dive after the well house to the spider's lair).
As soon as they see me, the game crashes.
Did no one else notice this? Can someone replicate this with 1.27? I am using Windows 10 on an AMD Ryzen CPU with NVIDIA GPU. Please test and confirm or decline. :)
R Soul on 3/3/2020 at 22:17
No problems for me. Different graphics card though (ATI Radeon R9280).
If you have any mods installed, try disabling them in case one of them contains a spider model/texture which is corrupted.
voodoo47 on 4/3/2020 at 07:32
I'd try a clean install, and no FMs, see whether that helps. then the FM. if it still crashes, post the log, the crashdump, the FM name, and maybe a save right before a place where it crashes, we'll see.
SeriousToni on 7/3/2020 at 11:36
Thank you so much for your answer. Regarding the spider crashes, this also appears on the original campaign (e.g. in the docks on mission 2 in the spider's cage house). I tried opening the crashdump file but its only cryptic signs in Notepad++ mostly - how am I able to read this file correctly? Please help me a little more :)
voodoo47 on 7/3/2020 at 15:48
zip it up and upload somewhere (gdrive, ideally), post the link and we'll see. include a save and logs, if possible.
SeriousToni on 8/3/2020 at 17:02
I've packed the crashdump and the save from Mission 2. If you load the save game, just go into the garage with the spiders, as soon as you startle them it crashes. Maybe someone could take a look at it? :( This would be really helpful and means a lot to me! Thank you :)
Password: thief
ZIP Download: (
https://easyupload.io/tlkv76)
R Soul on 8/3/2020 at 17:24
I don't know if there's any significance to this, but when loading the savegame the player has gravel footsteps in the immediate area (especially going south).
voodoo47 on 10/3/2020 at 19:53
can't make it crash though - can you share the thief2.log as well?
SeriousToni on 15/3/2020 at 15:51
I just tested again with the quicksafe I've provided. As soon as I enter the hall and the spider gets annoyed, it instantly crashes repeating the last 0.2 seconds of the game sound all over in a loop until I restart my computer...
The "gravel ground sound" I cannot confirm. Tis normal stone sound for me. :)
Here also the other log file:
(
https://easyupload.io/6d9s03)
I have really no idea what could be the issue :(
SeriousToni on 15/3/2020 at 16:24
Wow.. I just SHUT DOWN my PC and booted it up 10 minutes later again. The sound STILL appears!! WTF how can this be possible? How can I get rid of this OMG :(((((
EDIT: I went to Hardware Manager and deactivated my Asus Xonar external Sound Device. After reactivating it, the sound is finally gone... Man I just got a heart attack in fear of having to re-install my Windows all over :D
