Thief 2 suddenly stopped working

frobbin hood on 14/9/2016 at 21:10

OK guys, need some help here please.

Been playing T2 FMs for many years with little problem until today.
Loaded up a mission I've played before, tried to start it and Thief crashed before the initial screen. The standard Win7 box "Unfortunately Thief 2 has stopped working" appears.
My T2 is all patched up to date and I have tried:

Reboot
Reloading Original Mission.
Removing spurious directories left behind on clear-up.
Replacing T2.exe with another copy.
Removing all files, deleting directory, running a Registry cleaner then replacing the files again.

Is there anything else that causes this problem? Thought I'd try here before a full uninstall\re-install. :confused:
Thanks.

frobbin hood on 14/9/2016 at 22:26

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I had installed PureBasic at around the same time. Just uninstalled and restarted, but no change.

If this means anything......

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Thief2.exe
Application Version: 1.9.0.0
Application Timestamp: 56c62321
Fault Module Name: Thief2.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.9.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 56c62321
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000e8272
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

nickie on 15/9/2016 at 07:29

If you use FMSelector then you should have no "spurious directories left behind on clear-up".

My googling of 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 indicates it's a Windows error, not game specific but there seem to be quite a few reasons for it and I'm not technical enough to make suggestions. I'm moving this to Tech and Troubleshooting.

Unna Oertdottir on 15/9/2016 at 16:01

Install Tafferpatcher (again). This should fix it.

voodoo47 on 15/9/2016 at 17:01

checking whether a quick, clean, new separate T2 install works fine is always a good start.

frobbin hood on 15/9/2016 at 20:26

Thanks for the tips guys.

Re-installed Tafferpatcher. This gets me a bit further.
I can now launch the game and load a mission. The movie will play, but the game crashes on loading.
Oddly, the 'Thief Fan Mission Selector' Icon actually runs the loaded game - i.e. is really the Thief 2 icon.

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Thief2.exe
Application Version: 1.9.0.0
Application Timestamp: 31313931
Fault Module Name: Thief2.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.9.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 31313931
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000214f2
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: dc18
Additional Information 2: dc18b7cca9442ac24168f8b29956fa03
Additional Information 3: 197d
Additional Information 4: 197da20bb06f9472bf0604df8759a097

nickie on 15/9/2016 at 20:35

If I google that 'additional information', I get 2 responses, both from TTLG.

(http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133242)
(http://ttlg.mobi/halloween-contest-2012-tell-tale-heart-newdark-v119-nov22012-thread-140359-page-5.aspx) - this doesn't actually load or lead to anything (which may be to do with recent forum problems) but perhaps you can find the answer in the TellTale Heart thread itself.

One thing I found when I was looking earlier was a similar problem from someone who for no apparent reason suddenly had his game crashing and running the .exe as Adminstrator resolved it.

I do recommend doing a new install as voodoo suggested.

Unna Oertdottir on 15/9/2016 at 21:27

You'll find "thief2.log" in the root folder. Please post it.

frobbin hood on 17/9/2016 at 12:09

Ok, thanks guys. I was hoping to avoid it, but I'll go with a complete uninstall\re-install.
At least Tafferpatcher takes the hard work out of it.

There that's done it..............:D