jermi on 25/1/2011 at 17:39
UseSysMemOverlay=0 is the default, and the correct choice if it works. UseSysMemOverlay=2 is slower.
Do you have any in-game screenshots? You said there was something wrong with the in-game texts as well.
Slamelov on 20/2/2011 at 23:39
I have a problem with the cutscenes in W7 64. It crashes when a cutscene is loaded by the game, but the game runs perfect If I load a savegame (no cutscene).
I have the Klite codec pack, and ffdshow with Thief 2.exe excluded.
I can play all the cutscenes from Windows using VLC or another media player.
What should I have to do?.
Nameless Voice on 21/2/2011 at 00:59
FFDShow, or FFDShow-Tryouts?
The former is ancient and should not be used, as it's been known to cause crashes in old games. The latter has no problems with Thief. If you have the former, try completely uninstalling it, then installing (
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/) FFDShow Tryouts. Once you have that, you should no longer need the K-Lite Codec pack, either, and could uninstall it if you want.
Either way, try running this command to register the default Indeo codec (you may need to run it from a command prompt started as Administrator):
Code:
regsvr32 "%windir%\sysWOW64\ir50_32.dll"
Slamelov on 21/2/2011 at 10:26
Quote Posted by Slamelov
I have a problem with the cutscenes in W7 64. It crashes when a cutscene is loaded by the game, but the game runs perfect If I load a savegame (no cutscene).
Thanks for the answer
I have the Klite codec pack, and ffdshow with Thief 2.exe excluded.
I can play all the cutscenes from Windows using VLC or another media player.
What should I have to do?.
I was using this:
(
http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_full.htm)
I have unistalled Klite, and now cutscenes play, no crashes... but no sound.
I have instaled ffdshow, I can see cutscenes, but still no sound.
If I play avi cutsecenes with VLC or KMPlayer, everything is OK.
Also, I typed that command line, but nothing changes, still no sound in cutscenes.
At least it does not crash.
Nameless Voice on 21/2/2011 at 12:14
That's odd, the sound isn't compressed, it's just raw PCM audio - it shouldn't need a codec.
Slamelov on 21/2/2011 at 21:58
Solved!, thanks to your clue saying that is raw PCM. I had deactivated uncompresed codec in ffdshow. Now, it works perfectly.
Thanks.
LarryG on 23/6/2011 at 22:42
I used to be able to view the videos, but now, nothing. I have no idea what or when they got screwed up. I've tried reinstalling the indeo codec and have installed FDShow-Tryouts. Still nothing. My OS is Vista 64.
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
FFDShow, or FFDShow-Tryouts?
The former is ancient and should not be used, as it's been known to cause crashes in old games. The latter has no problems with Thief. If you have the former, try completely uninstalling it, then installing (
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/) FFDShow Tryouts. Once you have that, you should no longer need the K-Lite Codec pack, either, and could uninstall it if you want.
Either way, try running this command to register the default Indeo codec (you may need to run it from a command prompt started as Administrator):
Code:
regsvr32 "%windir%\sysWOW64\ir50_32.dll"
Quote:
On Vista, to register a filter from the command prompt you typically have to be running the command prompt with administrator privileges. So, if you have Command Prompt on your Start menu, just right-click and choose Run as administrator. If not, open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and find cmd.exe - then right-click and choose Run as administrator.
That got me able to register ir50_32.dll; unfortunately it did not solve my problem of not being able to play the movies anymore. I now get audio but no video. Any suggestions for getting video back? I can play them in VirtualDub, so I could convert them to something. But as is neither Thief2 nor Windows Media Player can play them.
Edit: Apologies. I linked to this thread through a chain of threads, and this seemed to have the best / most applicable information. I didn't notice that it was a Win7 thread. I'll re-post this to an equivalent Win Vista thread if I find one.
Dahenjo on 31/7/2011 at 21:44
Update on my (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125853&p=2045286&viewfull=1#post2045286) posts above regarding poor graphics quality with Thief 1/2 in Win7:
Some failing DDR2 RAM led to upgrading my AMD AM2+ system to AM3 with new mobo/CPU/DDR3. The new mobo came with integrated Radeon HD 4250, the first opportunity to try a non-NVIDIA display. After my existing Win7 sorted out the hardware/driver changes, I tried Thief and both existing games ran and looked great for the first time ever in Win7.
Both my NVIDIA 9800 GTX+ and GTX 460, when separately put in the new mobo produce the original problem, remove them and go back to the ATI HD 4250, problem is gone. I've since purchased a Sapphire HD 6870 PCIe card which also shows no problem, in fact Thief looks & runs the best it ever has, even noticeably better than on XP w/GTX 460 (comparable card) where it didn't have the overt graphics degradation.
With the prevalence of NVIDIA these days it's hard to believe their cards/drivers alone would be the culprit, but in my case it sure appears that way (tried drivers going back to early Vista with no change). I wondered if it was an AMD platform thing, but then heard from another TTLG member with the same problem on an Intel i5 system, but also using NVIDIA GTX 460 (his an MSI, mine is EVGA). Thus far he hasn't been able to try an ATI card to confirm if that solves it, and may revert to XP which never had the issue on the same hardware until upgrading to Win7 (same situation as me before).
Old system - Thief problem on Win7 but not XP:
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
Phenom II X4 940 3GHz (AM2+)
2x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR2
XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ or EVGA GeForce GTX 460
Auria 24" 1080p LCD/TV (using VGA) or ASUS VE248H 24" 1080p LCD/LED (using DVI)
XP Pro 32-bit/Win7 64-bit dual boot
New system - Thief problem if swap back to either NVIDIA card:
ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3
Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz (AM3)
2x4GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 or integrated Radeon HD 4250
ASUS VE248H 24" 1080p LCD/LED (using DVI)
Win7 64-bit (see ya, XP ... Thief finally works!)
Other TTLG member's specs:
Asus P7P55D Pro motherboard
Intel Core i5 750 CPU
Kingston PC3-10700(667 MHz) DDR3 RAM (2x2GB)
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
EIZO 22" LCD monitor
Win7 32-bit
It'd be interesting to hear from others with NVIDIA-based systems without this issue, then maybe see what component, setting, etc might emerge to further isolate the problem. Also anyone with ATI/AMD cards WITH the problem, but I'm doubtful based on my experience. Please try to provide as full system specs as possible, and thanks for any ideas based on the above info.
H.P on 9/9/2011 at 16:39
Hey all!
I got a bad problem with T2 on windows 7 64-bit. When full installed, it crashes to desktop after playing a while.
Then I tried to patch it 1.07 -> 1.18. when patched I can't even open the game! It just tells me to put correct CD in (Yup, there is that CD already) :tsktsk: .
Then I reinstalled it, didn't patch and tried to run it on single processor, but somehow I couldn't change the affinity :sweat:
WTF should I do??
