Thief 2: No Status Bar on Mobility Radeon 7500

chis on 7/6/2008 at 16:03

I'm trying to play Thief 2 on an IBm Thinkpad X41. With DDFix, it runs nearly flawlessly (if a tad choppy in missions like Rocksbourg) at 1440x900. However, I do not see a health bar, light gem nor the miniature 3D objects when selecting weapons or inventory. The only thing visible is selected item text.

The system spec is a Pentium M 1600, with a Mobility Radeon 7500 GPU, running under Windows XP Pro SP3.

Trying to adjust the bar using console commands does nothing at all. The odd thing is, that when trying to use lockpicks, they appear so far UNDER the text that they move off the bottom of the screen.

Any ideas? (Yes, I have checked the FAQs, they are not helpful at all.)

Edit: This applies to Radeon 7000 cards as well. Be running Omega drivers 3.8.252 for best performance and - to fix the status bar issue - be sure to have all quality/detail settings in the Radeon Direct3D options, in display properties, set to maximum quality.