lpowell on 21/4/2014 at 02:12

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First of all, sorry if this is the wrong forum, but this seemed like the right one.

I'm having issues getting Shadows of the Metal Age running properly. In installed it, along with the codec for the cutscenes, and fired it up. It started fine, so I started a new game and the opening cutscene played fine, but the game crashed when I tried to start the first mission. I did some googling and found the crash was a common issue, the fix being to copy the ddfix file into the t2x folder. After that the game ran fine, EXCEPT the cutscenes no longer played. I did some googling and found that the common solution is to edit the movie_path in the Darkinst file so that it points to the correct folder with the movie files. Unfortunately it appears that the file already contains the correct path. I suspect it's a different issue because the cutscenes ran fine to begin with, only "breaking" when I copied over the ddfix file. Just in case I've copied the contents of my Darkinst file (note that I've installed the game in a different location from default for the GoG version).

cd_path \
install_path C:\GOG Games\Thief 2
language english
resname_base C:\GOG Games\Thief 2\t2x+C:\GOG Games\Thief 2\RES
load_path C:\GOG Games\Thief 2\t2x+C:\GOG Games\Thief 2
script_module_path C:\GOG Games\Thief 2\t2x+C:\GOG Games\Thief 2
movie_path C:\GOG Games\Thief 2\t2x\movies+C:\GOG Games\Thief 2\MOVIES
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In case any of it matters, I'm running Windows 7 on a Bootcamped 2011 Macbook Pro with an Intel chipset. I also have Darkloader installed but not Newdark (I don't like the way it makes the game look).

Thanks.

lpowell on 22/4/2014 at 02:59

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Tafferpatcher did it. Thanks so much. :)