elwing on 14/10/2008 at 06:35
I everyone, I will try to describe my problem shortly, but completly. here is basically what is going on:
I installed thief 1 DP from eidos, I had not much problem, I had to use an other thief executable, and I had to correct the install.cfg file because some path were nuts (I think that was caused by garett loader optimisation). but so far everything is great, I had it working flawlesly, even without needing the CD to run (using a 7600GT with the latest nvidia driver mind you). the problem I have occurs when I try to play FMs, I know exactly what is causing the problem, but I have no idea for a good solution.
basically the thief dp I have is in french. almost no fan mission have french support, whenever I try to load a FM the game crash as soon as I try to read a book or to play custom sounds, I was able to play them flawlesly by renaming all the "english" folder to "french" but that is not practical at all. I tried to switch my thief language to english, but then thief crash right after the intro video, I guess this thief installation don't come with english files.
is there a solution for that problem? (a plugin for GL that rename folder to french, a thief dp "patch" containing the english ressources or any other solution?)
by advance, thanks
baeuchlein on 14/10/2008 at 09:24
I am using the german versions of
Thief and
Thief 2. I have not used Garrettloader, but I am using Darkloader 4.3 instead. Link: (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108786) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108786.
Darkloader 4.3 can handle multi-language missions. You will hear standard Thief voices from the original game in French, but new conversations are only in French if the mission supports that. If there are only english lines in the mission's zip file, then you will hear english voices for these new conversations.
Darkloader does
not support missions for
Thief 3. You still need Garrettloader for that.
I do not know whether Garrettloader's problems with French are normal (meaning that Garrettloader cannot handle foreign languages) or the result of a bug. Perhaps you should wait for others to reply to this thread. If Garrettloader includes some kind of Readme file, looking into that might help as well.
elwing on 14/10/2008 at 18:23
Hum, I think I found why GL do not work with a french thief1... I overlooked the language scroll in GL game settings, however GL crash at startup with an error 424 if I set language to french... searched a bit, but I found no info for that problem...I was able to "repair" GL back to english by edditing its .ini file, but I still have my language problem...
potterr on 16/10/2008 at 08:36
I sent elwing a beta version of GL 1.42 which should handle french languages easily, although the French reference file in GL needs updating before it changes GLs interface properly, however it should run T1/TG/T2/SS2 French FMs fine.
baeuchlein on 17/10/2008 at 16:17
Is this some kind of bug in Garrettloader, or rather the result of a mission with mis-placed language files, which Darkloader corrects automatically, but Garrettloader does not?
As far as I know, there are missions for Thief 2 which display no objectives when used with Garrettloader, but Darkloader plays them just fine. In the Garrettloader thread, a missing strings file is mentioned on one occasion (if I remember that correctly).
potterr on 27/10/2008 at 23:24
This should hopefully be resolved now, an updated version of GL is being beta tested which should correct the objectives for non english installs of thief, although with only the english install I haven't been able to test it fully myself.
