Thief 2 freezes, nothing helps.

thiefinthedark on 22/11/2006 at 23:52

This is starting to annoy me greatly. I've fiddled with settings, re-installed thrice, yet nothing works! The problem is that as soon as a start a game in thief, i'll get maybe a minute into the game, and then the whole computer will freeze up completely and i'll have to re-start!

My computer follows these spec's:
-Intel 2.4ghz W/hyperthreading (so 4.17ghzish)
-Celestica gold edition Radeon 9200 pro 256mb agp8x video card
-Maxtor 256mb HD split into 3 partitions (thief2 being installed on the "gaming" partition)
-2GB pc3200 RAM
-Generic DVD/ROM drive
-Onboard Audio W/EAX capability
-Windows XP/SP2 installed.

Can anyone help me? I'd really love to start playing FM's again...

teemac on 23/11/2006 at 00:40

thiefinthedark - I had the same problem with my new AMD X2/4600 and David (moderator) very kindly pointed out to me one of the threads at the very top of this forum (in bright red text). If you scroll right down about nearly to the end you will see a section with fixes.

This fix worked perfectly for me (thanks David for pointing it out).

I have a bookmark set and usually only browse the FM Missions forum and completely missed this section.

thiefinthedark on 23/11/2006 at 00:48

Well i feel fairly sheepish :erm:. Thanks for your help though!

Neil_McCauley on 27/11/2006 at 21:17

I'm sure you know by now, it's the dual processors problem.

john9818a on 12/1/2008 at 22:09

I just recently purchased an HP Q6600 with the Intel Core 2 Quad processor. I tried the fix stated in the FAQ but got this error:

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http://www.geocities.com/john9818a/processorserror.jpg

I am able to run Thief 2 / Dromed 2 by manually setting the affinity, but this only works once. If I exit Dromed and start again, and try to set the affinity, I get an "Access Denied" error. :confused:

ataricom on 13/1/2008 at 02:33

I hate to ask this, but do you have administrator access?
I'm sure you do but just had to ask

john9818a on 13/1/2008 at 02:36

Yes I do have administrator access. :) It's the only user on my pc, however when I run the processes.bat with Run as Administrator, it gives me the "unable to map and load" error on every line. :confused:

I am also unable to save files on C: with a "don't have permission" error. According to Microsoft, that error is caused by having the hard drive formatted with Windows XP's NTFS, but it's a new pc with Vista.

alexhoplock on 22/2/2010 at 02:15

I am not too sure what to do at this point i read the threads posted in here. I am kind of new to the whole posting threads and how to follow them but oh well! Anyway i start to play thief 2 and after it starts it just freezes and the same with my thief 1.... so what would anyone suggest i can do to help. I am running vista Ultimate.. thanks to anyone who can help me out!!:confused:

I am also not sure i downloaded the Everst program and got a spec sheet for my spu but i am not sure how to up;oad the repot here....

MoroseTroll on 22/2/2010 at 10:52

alexhoplock: Perhaps the root of your problem is in the multi-core nature of your PC's CPU. Please try (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127533) this pretty small and very simple utility in order to fix this issue.

alexhoplock on 23/2/2010 at 02:40

I did try that utility and same thing happens, I start the game go so far and then just halts. i have to ctrl alt delete and task manager and it says the game is "not responding" so i am yet again puzzled