CasperTFG on 13/9/2008 at 13:51
I recently built a dual core system with the specs shown below. I cannot run Thief2. I can get past the Eidos screen, but as soon as the main start menu comes up, Thief crashes to Windows.
I've tried the following:
-DDFix (both manual and GUI)
-Imagecfg.exe
-SetAffinity.exe (found at (
http://www.adsciengineering.com/StartAffinity/) http://www.adsciengineering.com/StartAffinity/)
-AMD Dual Core Optimizer (found at (
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html)) http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html)
-Thief-TheCircle.com's instructions for permanently fixing (found at (
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/) http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/)
-I've tried "fixed .exe's" with all the above solutions.
None of these have ANY affect on the problem for me. Does anyone have an idea of what else I could try? I'm at a total loss at this point. :(
System Specs:
-Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherbaord
-AMD Athalon 64 X2 6000+
-EVGA 640-P2-N829-AR GeForce 8800GTS
-2GB Mushkin DDR2 800
-Windows XP Home with SP2
CasperTFG on 13/9/2008 at 18:54
Yes, I've tried everything on both of those threads. Driver version is 175.19.
bikerdude on 13/9/2008 at 22:01
Quote Posted by CasperTFG
Yes, I've tried everything on both of those threads. Driver version is 175.19.
ok can you try the following
make sure the resolution in cam.cfg and ddfix.ini are the same
edit the following lines in ddfix.ini so its like the following:
Code:
[Main]
;Screen resolution
;Must be 800x600 or greater
gWidth=1024
gHeight=768
;Refresh rate. 0 is default, anything else to override.
RefreshRate=0
;Set to 1 to fix the duel core related crash
MultiCoreFix=1
;Set to 1 to automatically register lgvid.ax each time thief is started up
VideoFix=1
;This can be set to zero to get a more accurate z-buffer
;Doesn't usually make a noticable difference to picture quality
UseCompatibleZBuffer=1
;Turns on the 32 bit texture loader and adds support for some unsupported screen resolutions
;Will cause a crash if used with an unsupported exe
; 0 - Disable
; 1 - Determine exe automatically
; 2 - Thief 2 v1.18
Thief2Extensions=0
;Set to 1 to disable the windows keys while thief is running
DisableWindowsKey=0
;Set to 1 to enable anisotropic filtering
AnisotropicFiltering=0
;If you want to share overriden textures between thief installations, uncomment the next line
;It should contain the absolute path to the equivilent of \res\ddfix, including the trailing \
;TexturePath=C:\Games\Thief2\res\ddfix\
;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
;XX Compatibility settings XX
;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
;Changes the way direct writes to the frontbuffer are handled
;SS2 players should set these options to '2' and '0xf81f' respectively
;Thief 2 players with corrupted in game text should use '2' and '0x0000'
;Players who experience slowdown with UseSysMemOverlay=2 should set both options to 0
UseSysMemOverlay=2
OverlayColourKey=0x0000
biker
CasperTFG on 20/9/2008 at 01:00
After uninstalling and doing a fresh install, Thief II now works. I hope this helps anyone else having this problem.
I used ImageCFG.exe to force Thief to use a single core. I think the setup is where I was having problems. You have to copy imagecfg.exe into 2 folders: \Windows\System32 and \Windows\System32\dllcache. The dllcache folder is hidden by default if you do a fresh install of Windows and I think I missed copying into that folder. [(
http://www.robpol86.com/pages/imagecfg.php) http://www.robpol86.com/pages/imagecfg.php]
I Had to run both commands to get it to work:
imagecfg -u c:\path\to\file.exe
imagecfg -a 0x1 c:\path\to\file.exe
So that got the game up and running. Then I had to deal with an nVidia 8800 card, so I had to use DDFix:
[(
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449]
And now it works. Next I'm going to try the Widescreen patch.
Thanks for your help Bikerdude. Now it's time to get back to frobbing!
bikerdude on 20/9/2008 at 08:04
good to see people fixing it by themselvs :cheeky:
biker
