sNeaksieGarrett on 9/10/2009 at 23:14
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I've installed Thief 2 and found that after installation when starting the game that it appears to be loading (that picture of garret with the bow comes up) but then nothing happens. I have to end the thief 2 process and the image of Garret usually remains on screen until I restart my computer. It doesn't even get to the main menu.
Picture of Garrett? What picture? Are you referring to the CD menu when you put in the thief 2 disc? :confused:
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I've attempted to use DDfix, and imagecfg and had no luck.
What exactly have you tried? ddfixgui? ddfix manual? did you try compatibility mode on either one? what happens when you try to use ddfix?
Pillermann Columbus on 22/10/2009 at 00:59
It works very fine on Windows 7.
To get it to work you have to install in this order:
1. Thief 2 with patch 1.18
2. widescreen-patch (but note: the file "WeiDu.exe" in the widescreen-folder has to have admin-rights, so you have to set this value in the details of this file before running the widescreen.bat)
3. ddfix (GUI with admin-rights)
4. Play with wonderful graphics in HD :cheeky:
I hope, you understand my bad school English :rolleyes:
Have fun! ;)
hexhunter on 16/11/2009 at 20:31
This may be the wrong place to ask this but why did my installation of the Widescreen mod not include Widescreen.bat? I don't seem to be able to work it without that file.
EDIT: My mistake, seems to be called DARKwidescreen.bat
aegisknight on 25/11/2009 at 03:36
oh my god, I just spent a couple of hours going through various fix attempts (I had thief and thief 2 working on vista without a problem, wouldn't work on 7 for the life of me) to no avail. Game would crash before menu every time. (no thief gold, I'm old skool with the original disc from way back when).
well, it turns out my 3 monitor set up was SERIOUSLY pissing off the game, on a whim I disabled 2 of 'em to try booting it, works perfectly fine now.
So I guess it has multi-monitor support issues, which is surprising, but I suppose I should have expected it.
If anybody knows how to make it so I can have all my monitors up and running while playing the game, please let me know
edit: dunno if it helps diagnose the problem, but when I try to re-enable the other monitors while the game is up and running, it automatically sets their resolution super low, with no way to change it
Incarniac on 10/1/2010 at 19:13
I had the problem where it was crashing when playing movies (start new game, start a new mission in a saved game) but the actual game worked (loading a saved game) on my desktop with Windows 7 x64, while it was working perfectly on my laptop (also Windows 7 x64).
After tracking down the differences, I realised I had installed the alternate Indeo Video Codec (or Alternate Thief Movie Codec as it's referred to). Uninstalling this (and manually removing the two DLLs the uninstaller warns you about, which are in \Windows\SysWOW64) it all worked fine.
This is Thief 2 (1.18) with all other required fixes and ddfix 1.4.4-beta (was running 1.3.11 before installing 1.4.4 as an attempted fix before realising what it was).
So it appears that Windows 7 does not like the alternate codec, at least in my case. I don't know why I installed it in the first place, though!
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So I guess it has multi-monitor support issues
Works fine on my desktop with two monitors with both enabled.
SiO2 on 16/2/2010 at 23:03
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So I guess it has multi-monitor support issues, which is surprising, but I suppose I should have expected it.
If anybody knows how to make it so I can have all my monitors up and running while playing the game, please let me know
edit: dunno if it helps diagnose the problem, but when I try to re-enable the other monitors while the game is up and running, it automatically sets their resolution super low, with no way to change it
I developed DDFix 1.4.4b on Windows 7 x64. So far its working better than I could have hoped for. I get movies and fog. :D
Coincidentally, I have a second monitor on my desk though I have always run Thief2 with only a single monitor up til now.
I did have the idea of having the game run on one monitor and the GUI/menu running on a second monitor - that way I could always have the map open on the second monitor. :cool: I may give this a try when I get time (I would have to add the functionality to DDFix)...
Nameless Voice on 17/2/2010 at 01:36
I can't imagine that working, since the game is paused when any of the menus are open.
Unless it detects when the map is open and takes a screenshot, which it then displays on the second monitor!
SiO2 on 18/2/2010 at 19:09
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I can't imagine that working, since the game is paused when any of the menus are open.
Unless it detects when the map is open and takes a screenshot, which it then displays on the second monitor!
But there's a resolution mode switch when you bring up the menu/map - I'm wondering whether I could modify ddifx to switch monitors.
Just a thought at the moment...
brian1821 on 18/2/2010 at 21:03
Quote Posted by SiO2
I developed DDFix 1.4.4b on Windows 7 x64. So far its working better than I could have hoped for. I get movies and fog. :D
Coincidentally, I have a second monitor on my desk though I have always run Thief2 with only a single monitor up til now.
I did have the idea of having the game run on one monitor and the GUI/menu running on a second monitor - that way I could always have the map open on the second monitor. :cool: I may give this a try when I get time (I would have to add the functionality to DDFix)...
Hello,
Do you happen to have a link to DDFix download? I don't know if its just me (haven't seen anyone else comment on it) but I can't get the Timeslip site (from the Theif 2 sticky) to load and the mirror from filefront comes up "file unavailable".
Thanks,
