piln on 1/2/2011 at 15:59

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Thanks for the patch, Hadley, it has allowed me to do one thing I was having trouble with - run the game in a resolution of my choosing (rather insisting on native resolution, as it did with just the FOV patch). This in turn has allowed me to play in stereo 3D on a big TV, which just looks great.

Unfortunately, I'm still getting crashes. They occur in the same place as before I applied the "option c" crash fix - whenever I choose Exit from the main menu, and whenever I get to the door at the end of the training level. That's as far as I've got with my current PC build. Without t3_widescreen.exe's crash fix, the game freezes at those moments (frozen image, looping sound, I have to alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del out and kill it with task manager); with the crash fix, the game actually crashes back to desktop with a Windows crash report dialog; but in either case, the moments when the crash/freeze occurs are identical.

Here's the info from the Windows crash message:


Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: T3Main.EXE
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 40c8a4da
Fault Module Name: StackHash_3179
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00000000
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 3179
Additional Information 2: 31795f6fe526d26a59172c62c38bb299
Additional Information 3: 841d
Additional Information 4: 841d94beac6dc15f9bf44264dbd3eacc


My system:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Intel Core2Duo E6600
2x GeForce GTX260 in SLI
2GB RAM

nothing is overclocked

Original retail DVD of Thief 3 with official 1.1 patch applied (not the editor version)
I've run imagecfg with these options:

imagecfg -u t3.exe
imagecfg -u t3main.exe
imagecfg -a 0x1 t3.exe
imagecfg -a 0x1 t3main.exe

I've tried running in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode. This, and the CPU affintiy changes, have made no apparent difference.

I've applied t3_widescreen.exe to set res option 4 to 1280x720 and to set the crash fix, and the FOV patch for correct 16:9 FOV. If I set FOV back to 4:3 and select 1024x768 in game, I can quit to desktop without a crash. With FOV still at 4:3 but resolution set to my customised 1280x720 (obviously this gives a bad FOV in-game, I'm just trying it for testing purposes) it crashes as before. Weirdly, when I select 1600x1200 (res option 5, which I have not modified) and apply it, it switches to 1280x720 every time, no idea why. Again, not sure if this has any relevance, just something I noticed while testing.

btw I've tested in 1920x1080 too, and it crashes in exactly the same way.

Anyway... I think that's everything. The game fails when I run in a widescreen resolution whether I have t3_widescreen's crash fix applied or not - in my case it just changes from a freeze to a CTD.

Hope someone can help with this.

piln on 1/2/2011 at 16:21

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Thanks. Tried disabling SLI, game still crashes in exactly the same way. I have not yet tried the other widescreen patch as it appears to be made for a selection of 16:10 resolutions and I specifically need 1280x720. Looks like I'll have to do some hex editing to achieve that, don't have time now but will try later.

Jack Sheppard on 8/3/2011 at 13:12

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I just wanted to say thanks to Hadley for the patch. I now seem to be able to run my monitor at its native resolution and am not having the game crash at the end of the training mission.