thief 2/getting ddfixGUI.exe to work/open with ubuntu linux via wine

Griffin Bain on 17/10/2008 at 04:47

Friends, I have ununtu linux 8.04 with wine 1.1.6 and cannot start the ddfix patch because I need a 'windows version of mono'. Does anyone have any experience in this field?

silsor on 9/11/2008 at 22:09

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Here is a terminal command that will make the same patch without the hassle of installing mono. It will patch thief2.exe to use ddfix and save a backup in thief2.exe.old. You need to be in the same directory as thief2.exe and have write permission to the file and directory.

Code:

sed -i.old "s/ddraw.dll/ddfix.dll/" thief2.exe

After you do this you need to put ddfix.dll and ddfix.ini in the thief2 directory and make the appropriate resolution edits to ddfix.ini and cam.cfg like it says in the ddfix documentation.

Griffin Bain on 29/11/2008 at 02:01

thanks, i haven;t seen this advice anyware, i will give it a try and let you know if it worked.
-Grif

bikerdude on 29/11/2008 at 13:23

thanks for replying Silsor - there aren't that many people that know about this (me included)

biker