Thief DS on QuadCore Vista Machine with 8800GT

AmunPtah on 25/2/2008 at 19:01

Hi all,

I am having problems with Thief: DS. I have tried manually setting the affinity of the processors, imagecfg and other programs such as processwatch, but am still having problems running it.

When I first install the game it will load the menu fine, but as soon as it starts to load the 1st level the load screen disappears and I can see the HUD, and then the game crashes. Every time I try to load it after that the game will not start and gives me the Vista "Windows is searching for a solution" box.

Is this caused by my GFX card? It is an 8800GT with drivers version 169.06

bikerdude on 26/2/2008 at 20:42

doh! Im such a numpty, I didnt read your thread properly...

never mind me

b.

Chade on 27/2/2008 at 01:46

I have no idea if this will help, but Thief 3 wouldn't work on my Vista machine until I told vista to run the program as an administrator.

However, my error was different to yours, so this may not be the problem. Worth a try, though!

Calibrator on 27/2/2008 at 05:13

Quote Posted by Bikerdude

have you installed DDfix - this is required for thief to play on the newest nVidia hardware..

biker

For Thief Deadly Shadows?

Calibrator

smithpd on 2/3/2008 at 00:35

As for setting affinity, you need to do it for two processes: t3.exe and t3Main.exe. Try doing that manually for both of those processes. If it works, then you need to use a program like ProcessWatch to set affinity at run time. That is because imagecfg works to modify t3Main.exe, but it does not work to modify t3.exe.

AmunPtah on 8/7/2008 at 12:47

BUMP

Have there been any developments on this? I know that biker has an 8800GTX and Vista, but I don't know about whether he is on Multicore CPU. I have used ProcessWatch and uninstalled reinstalled about 10 times, but it still crashes when loading the first mission. Is this a GFX card prob?

Biker! Please help! You are the great taffer that fixes Thief for me!

bikerdude on 8/7/2008 at 14:56

Quote Posted by AmunPtah

Hi Amun

I have had TDS working on my C2D and 8800Ultra under vista with no problems, although due to vista being a royal peice of s**t, Ive gone back to Xp (until I can get dual booting working that is)

Drop me a pm with yer email and I'll send you my DC fixed T3.exe

biker

Hiatus on 9/7/2008 at 16:07

biker

is patching T3 .exe's (t3main.exe and t3.exe) *really* necessary for multi core machines? Have you experienced any issues when leaving T3 to run on multiple cores or simply patched it just in case, w/o observing any issues yourself? Asking because I can't see any issues myself, when running it on my dual core (Intel).

and, what have you used for patching - imagecfg.exe tool from MS or something else?

thanks

bikerdude on 9/7/2008 at 18:33

Quote Posted by Hiatus

is patching T3 .exe *really* necessary for multi core machines? and, what have you used for patching - imagecfg.exe tool from MS or something else? thanks

Yes I believe it is, even today only a small number of apps/games are multi core aware. And fyi, anything more than dualCore is a waste of time for most people/apps atm. And I used imagecfg to patch my T3.exe, I never patched Tmain.exe, but If im sending T3.exe I include Tmain as its the updated version and is needed by garrattloader.

biker

Hiatus on 9/7/2008 at 18:46

biker, why don't you patch t3main.exe? it's main t3 app (t3.exe is merely some loader, I think). Take a look in Task Manager what amount of mem each process is using...

AFAIR I've seen recommendations to patch both exes. Are they wrong?

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Quote:

And fyi, anything more than dualCore is a waste of time for most people/apps atm.

heh, even more than 1 core is, to be honest:

(http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/hardware/prozessoren/2008/bericht_1_2_3_4_cpu-kerne/)