morkzob on 20/8/2009 at 19:35

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after searching through these forums, i could not get Thief 2 to run adequately on Vista. the first problem was that cutscenes would not play, fixes I did introduced new problems

1. Installed, videos did not work
2. Tried RegIndeo.bat fix, did nothing
3. Tried to use ddfix at some point, GUI version did not work, used manual instructions but caused distortion on main menu and multicolor/crash in the game, so reset thief2.exe back to original
4. Reinstalled in C: instead of Program Files (x86), crash before reaching main menu
5. Installed darkloader and run game with that, game runs but still no videos
6. Game now runs fine with no videos without using darkloader now (today)

missing something?

morkzob on 21/8/2009 at 00:59

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Thank you.

Peanuckle on 17/10/2009 at 03:44

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Hey, I also have issues. I've followed the faq, installing DDFix, Widescreen patch and all that goodness. Followed the instructions in this vid.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLJO-eQogms)


I dont directly crash to desktop, but the game doesn't run either. I just get a black screen instantly on startup that doesn't change. My guess is the intro movie doesn't want to run. I've tried looking at the faq but that's an unnavigatable morass of information. Is there a fix for thief movies on Vista?

Failing that, could I just remove the movie files and have the game skip all movies to get right to the menu? I'll try that now and report the results.

Peanuckle on 21/3/2010 at 01:11

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Bumping this thread.

I got Thief Gold to work on my laptop, no problems at all. Just had to use -lgntforce.

However I still have the same problem with T2. The introductory movie doesn't play and I can't start the game, it just locks up at a blackscreen. When I open taskmanager it tells me the game is still running however.

I've tried every fix on the books. This infuriates me because most FMs are for T2, and I like T2 more than T1 anyways. Here are my system specs courtesy of Everest.


Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)


Motherboard
CPU Type Unknown, 2100 MHz
Motherboard Name Wistron 303C
Motherboard Chipset Unknown
System Memory 2816 MB
BIOS Type Phoenix (06/23/09)

Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
Monitor Generic PnP Monitor [NoDB]

Multimedia
Audio Adapter High Definition Audio Controller [NoDB]

Storage
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Disk Drive SAMSUNG HM250HI ATA Device (232 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633M ATA Device
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 227288 MB (114521 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 11181 MB (1875 MB free)
Total Size 232.9 GB (113.7 GB free)


I'm at wits end here people. If I can't get this to work this time around I'll have been without Thief 2 for over a year and that's just not right.