Sonic98 on 23/4/2010 at 15:41

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There has to be something wrong with this file I downloaded from Eidos Website becuase i tried to install on my dad's WinXP machine and I got the same problem. I probably need to try to get it from somewhere else. It's crazy because I think this was a completely seperate download. It did go farther on XP because the activation utility popped up but the game still never ran

Teh_Saccade on 1/7/2010 at 18:05

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Alrite Vinn - I installed Thief DS the other week (got Thief 1, 2 & T2X working on Win7x64 too, in widescreen) and it strangely stopped working today.
Well, not that strange, really, since I've been fucking around with a load of things quite a bit this week and a lot of things on this machine have stopped working that were fine before.

I eventually managed it until I was at the point you were with being able to play a mission / tutorial, but it would hang on completion. (Double back after distracting the guard with a noisemaker and find the candlestick in the chest in the room he runs into for 100%... I never found that til earlier :/)

The fix for me was a resolution problem and it sounds like you're having similar issues:

I think it's due to certain display adaptors/drivers being a bit iffy with Thief DS, so will be working on another patch - this one for widescreen displays - because it's a pain in the arse when games refuse to run in certain aspect ratios.

The game can handle playing in certain [widescreen] resolutions, such as 1600 x 900 but - and this seems to be the case with a lot of people who can't get this working - it doesn't like it so much. Especially when it comes to ending a mission. You may have noticed that there is a bit of corruption on the title menu. Things like the version number not being there or the menu options only appearing after you hover over them with the mouse.

Simple fix is: take the resolution down a few notches. 1024 x 768 works, as does 1280... Any higher than that and, due to the way the game works [backbutton/pausegame/esc], which has always been an issue with the Thief series, this resolution / screen switching while paused thing that appears ("are you sure you want to finish the mission" screen, etc...).

The harder workaround is (if you've fubar'd the game so it won't open): uninstall, reinstall and then - if it still won't launch - manually edit the config files in the progfiles(x32)/thief - deadlly shadows directory to reflect a workable resolution.

For added measure (and idk if this is a fix for others as it made no difference to the game hanging on a too high res), you can use Regedit to find the entry for Thief DS' save games - give it a proper path instead of the ~3 bits n stuff.
That and ensure that all the .exe's like T3.exe and T3main.exe have full permissions and are run as administrator for all users.

If that don't work, then idkwtf the problem is, so don't ask :P
You'd think that, considering how crappy Deus Ex 2 was and how the 3rd one doesn't look so great (compared to the first, anyhow); that they're probably going to butcher Thief 4 too, that someone would've released a few patches to keep these games playing on new systems architecture and stuff.

Least we could do is get a load of config files and exe's zipped up, maybe a few Registry edits too, for download so that people can just copy them into the right places and hope for the best.

Erm... Basically, this is a long post to say, "have you tried turning down the resolution in-game?".

Hope it works for you too.
If not - get Thief 2 as it's better anyway.

Sonic98 on 7/2/2011 at 02:48

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I guess everyone gave up on getting it to work. It's just hard to believe so many had so many unexplained problems with one game. I never did purchase from another source, and I am kind of hesitant to do so, but I do plan on trying it on another different system

Rakesh2011 on 24/10/2011 at 14:51

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please see this error



my system =
Windows 7 64 bit ultimate SP1
DG43NB Mainboard
9500GT 1GB Graphics Card
Creative Speakers 5.1
4GB DDR2 800 mhz Ram
intel quad core 8400 (2.7ghz~5.5total)

Lady Taffer on 8/1/2012 at 22:40

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Well, I've installed Thief 3 as well as the widescreen patch in the thread below this one. I'm not sure if I used it correctly (unzipped the file, put it in the Thief 3 folder and ran the program) but I started up the game and everything worked perfectly. After a few hours of gameplay, though, the game froze and immediately crashed to the desktop. I didn't get any error message, so I don't know what happened. I thought a possible reason might be linked to a similar problem I had with the game on an old computer of mine, wherein the game would freeze periodically because the system would overheat. My new system is pretty powerful, though, so I'm doubtful that this is the case.
System specs:

Processor: Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40Ghz (4 core)
64-bit operating system
8 gigs of RAM
graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti