desin on 2/12/2023 at 13:58
Hello
Thief 2
CD Version
latest TFix applied
no Movies, only sound
any advice ?
thanks
Baal on 7/12/2023 at 07:04
I had that problem with Shock 2. Using a different version of Wine/Proton solved it.
I use Bottles, which has a lot of different Wine builds to choose from. The Soda 7.0 build works for me, while the ProtonGE 8.0 based ones have that same issue.
Master O on 8/12/2023 at 15:01
Quote Posted by Baal
I had that problem with Shock 2. Using a different version of Wine/Proton solved it.
I use Bottles, which has a lot of different Wine builds to choose from. The Soda 7.0 build works for me...
Will Soda 7.0 also work for Thief 3: Deadly Shadows?
Baal on 8/12/2023 at 15:57
I don`t know, but I would say that chances are good that it does.
It would be good to know what the actual cause of that issue is. I remember ZylonBane mentioning somewhere, that you have to make sure ffmpeg is used for playback instead of the indeo codec. I'm not sure how to do that, maybe with the dll override of wine.
WEI on 8/12/2023 at 22:51
No clue what the issue is or if it's properly solved.
All I can say is I that I have the gog version installed with Heroic Game Launcher and I use GE-Proton (latest version) : everything works perfectly, same for T1 and Deadly Shadows (all of them with fix and mods installed)..works with wine and normal proton as well. I have no idea how it goes with the CD version, but if it works with GOG I'm sure there must be a way.
One stupid idea crossing my mind though : I know there is the option "no_unload_ffmpeg" in cam_ext.cfg, it should have no ";" at the begining of the line, I highly doubt it's the issue in your case (never had to modify this line), but who knows.. (I'd also make sure everything regarding movies is correct in this file). Other than that, no clue sadly.
Kerrle on 11/12/2023 at 01:04
Yeah, it's not the issue - it's the intel codec that was used for those movies. Likely if you try the black parade you'll see it's movies just fine.
katt on 13/12/2023 at 04:19
If you launch Thief 2 from the command line you'll get some verbose output from Wine that can help you solve certain issues. With video in a lot of games it can be an issue with gstreamer (Wine's codec translation for media isn't perfect). If that's the issue, you can install wmp11 using winetricks and that should do the trick.
Both retails version of Thief works for me with cutscenes so there is a way to get it to run properly. You might want to use wine-staging if you aren't already, as it has an option to enable EAX emulation.
Taffingtaffer on 16/12/2023 at 18:34
In my experience, Thief's videos stopped rendering from Wine 8.2 onwards... its changelog stating that it has "Indeo IV50 codec support" (
https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.2) https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.2
??? What made them work before? No taffing idea. Maybe it used gstreamer before and it got deprecated in favor of the actual .dll. I ended up adding an override (ir50_32 as native,builtin) to make Wine use the .dll inside the installation folder.
Anarchic Fox on 16/12/2023 at 18:58
Is playing The Black Parade on a Linux rig a doomed endeavor?
Kerrle on 16/12/2023 at 20:34
Nah, it works fine and has for years - my first post about it here was from like 15 years ago.
For this specific issue, if you're playing through Steam, just go to properties in the game and add:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ir50_32=n,b" %command%
In the launch options field.
The movies have been broken for a lot of people in Windows over the years, too, remember, to the point that people uploaded reencodings of them.
