sNeaksieGarrett on 31/1/2008 at 23:16
Cool, but I don't see how thief 2 could be running in software mode, as thief 2 doesn't have a software mode.:o :confused:
EnYB0La on 23/6/2013 at 12:21
Sorry to revive an old thread, but is it possible to run Thief 1 / 2 under Linux with the New Dark patch without previously named issues (cutscenes and EAX)?
Have those games good performance now?
voodoo47 on 23/6/2013 at 13:15
NewDark works much better than Old Dark under linux.
bjack on 21/1/2015 at 04:28
A little more to add about Linux, actually Ubuntu circa 2015 and using the latest version of Wine available at this time. Yes it works with T2 and even fan missions. I was not able to install T2 either off the disks or via TafferPatcher though. I had to make a copy of my patched Windows T2 directory and my T2_Fan_Missions directory and copy to the Ubuntu disk. I then could open the Thief exe using Wine and it worked OK. The screen resolution was wonky at first. I had to play around with Wine's configs to get a nice balance between the windowed T2 and T2 trying to use the entire screen. At 1990*1400 (I think) some of the screen was cut off, because it was widowed and I could not figure out how to make it maximize. The cursor was "owned" by T2, so it could not highlight the upper window bar and allow max. Anyway, after a few minutes of fiddling around, I could get a Linux/Ubuntu/Wine window that was about 90% of the screen and still have a full screen of T2.
Play was nearly the same as WinXP. I am using a 2 GB Athlon 64 3500 single core box with a NVidia610 2GB GPU. On XP the CPU utilization is 99%. On Ubuntu and Wine it is 35%. No apparent decrease or increase in FPS. Running Interference starts fine and the videos play as they should under Wine.
Synopsis: In my opinion it is not worth it to build a Ubuntu box just to play T2, but if you want to give up Windows for good, you can play T2 on is via the latest Wine with little to no issues. The caveat is you have to copy a fully installed and patched version from Windows first.
My #1 issue while trying to install from disks - either original or via Taffer Patcher is it would work just fine for disk 1, then it would prompt for disk 2… I would pop out disk 1 and place in disk two and the installer (either the native T2 or TafferPatcher) would bitch about disk 2 not being present. I tried making images of the disks locally, and many other tricks, but no dice. The work around was to copy an already installed full directory.
I hope this can help someone. I had some fun futzing around with this and I am kind of proud I actually got it to work.
Red_Breast on 26/1/2015 at 21:19
I used Linux Debian from around 2005 until about a year and a half ago. I didn't do much gaming in that time.
About 18 months back I got a good deal on a new PC and a copy of Win8 thrown in. Have been revisiting a lot of my old games.
Anyway I purchased the Thief games (1, 2 & 3) when they were released but about a year ago I added Thief Complete to my collection. It was a second hand purchase for a few quid.
As all 3 games are on a single DVD maybe that will help when it comes to installing on Linux. Do other games that come on 2 or more discs suffer the same problem?
gnartsch on 26/1/2015 at 21:49
I don't have a 2-disc Thief distribution around right now.
But it might be copying the content of both CDs into the same folder (!) and then burn it onto a single DVD.
Some software distributions have some files like '_disc_1', '_disc_2' and doing so may actually prevent the nasty dialog to pop up,
because the installer finds the requested file right away and doesn't need to ask.
Another thing that *may* work is to delete any file entirely which indicates the disc.
Independent Thief on 11/10/2016 at 12:01
Nice to see a thread for Linux users. I recently copied my T2 installation from my windows machine onto my Ubuntu 16.04 based distro. Using Wine, I was able to get T2 to run on my Linux box-the only issue I'm having is the fact I cant see any fog! I'm using a geforce 730 card with the 361 driver installed (the same as I used back in windows). Any tips on how to get the fog back?
Independent Thief on 18/10/2016 at 18:11
*BUMP* anyone have any ideas on this? It's not a deal breaker for me-but everything else (including FMsel) works fine, fog is just the last hoop I have to jump through.
