Thief game from gog and steam. - by Ghostly
Meowdori on 27/10/2019 at 17:54
Quote Posted by Cigam
Steam doesn't include NewDark? Doesn't that mean it is unplayable as it will freeze after a minute or so, on multi-core machines? (ie pretty much any machine nowadays)
Not necessarily, i had to deal with this very issue way back in 2005 on my Pentium 4 machine. You can make the game process use only single core, either after starting it and manually switching CPU affinity in Task Manager/Process Explorer/etc or calling it via shortcut following this scheme:
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%systemdrive%\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "Thief" /affinity 8 "[path_to_Thief_executable]"
With the affinity number calculated according to this formula (
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/santhoshonline/2011/11/24/how-to-launch-a-process-with-cpu-affinity-set/)
Still this is merely more of a curiosity than anything, because most people are more likely to want to run Thief 1 and 2 using the NewDark executables, since they add lots of good things like 16:9 ratio and custom resolutions support, among crapload of other settings adjustable in cam_ext.cfg
GOG version seems to be always using the newest NewDark release (with original LGS' executables provided in a backup directory, which is a big plus imo), so that's what i'd recommend.
