thief 2 crashes instantly, suspecting it to be a fault of cam.cfg... - by Albert
Albert on 30/5/2009 at 04:18
I tried a few things: starting the game thru compatability. nope
uninstalled the brilliant t2x. nope
I checked the cam.cfg file, and to my horror, this is the only line, a few space down:
skip_starting_checks
..............................................................................................
What does this mean?! (minus the ...'s)
Albert on 30/5/2009 at 04:33
Code:
; $Header: r:/t2repos/thief2/src/cam.cfg,v 1.24 2000/03/08 11:43:50 adurant Exp $
; hey, which game is this
game dark
; general configs
include_user_cfg user.cfg
editor_include_dromed_cfg dromed.cfg
; game specific paths/configs
dark_include_install_cfg darkinst.cfg
shock_include_install_cfg install.cfg
; set trait cache to include concretes
trait_cache_flags 2
no_network
sfx_vol_music -474
fogging 1
enhanced_sky 1
render_weather 1
movie_volume_factor 0.7
sfx_vol_3d 0
skip_intro
sfx_device 2
game_screen_depth 16
gamma 1.149999976
game_hardware 1
sfx_vol_2d 0
game_screen_flags 15
game_screen_size 1440 900
sfx_channels 24
ambient_volume -100
game_full_screen 1
master_volume -58
skip_starting_checks
skip_starting_checks
vmCenterY 0.5014409423
vmCenterX 0.5007849336
d3d_driver_index 1
cash_bonus 100000
last_command ai_sleep_all
Well, this is a correct version of the cam.cfg file that I keep on my ubuntu system in hopes that one day
I'll be able to run the game on this system...
But, what do you guys think caused the problem?
Furcas on 31/5/2009 at 08:55
I got no idea, but thanks! I had the same problem, my copy of T2 crashed instantly as well. T1 works perfectly, so I was very confused. I copypasted your good cam.cfg, and now T2 works like a charm.
I didn't have just one line though, but after the line "movie_volume_factor 0.7", I got "skip_starting_checks" and after that it was blank.
EDIT: Now I'm getting some other weird problem though (sorry for stealing the topic, but I hope that the problem lies in here somewhere). Whenever a movie starts playing in T2, the game stops responding and crashes. Couldn't find anything about it in the FAQs, since this only affects T2 and not T1.
Albert on 3/6/2009 at 08:14
Heh, it happened to me again! lol :p
Oh well, back to the drawing board. Someone should at least sticky this post while a solution is being found.
bikerdude on 3/6/2009 at 20:43
Albert, I have found thief has a habit of killing itself for no reason, so I suggest you backup any save games and then delete the thief directory and then reinstall thief fresh, then install all the require patches, then install ddfix and then the widescreen patch.....
than once you have done all that and thief works as it should make a zip of the thief folder so you wont have to do that again.
