NickD on 10/6/2012 at 21:36
I've been away from Thief and these forums for many years now. But recently I thought I'd try to run it on my iMac. So I installed VirualBox and a Windows XP VM.
So far I have been able to install Thief Gold and can run it but with the following issues:
* Even though I make my Windows VM full-screen, Thief only uses a small portion of the screen in the center. The rest of the screen is black.
* The sound is strange; like an echo.
Has anyone else tried Thief on a Mac in VirtualBox? Anyone have any ideas on how to fix the above issues?
Thanks.
malau on 11/6/2012 at 12:57
Mac ! Games ? hahahahahahahahahahahaha. My phone has a better GFX card than a Mac !
Briareos H on 11/6/2012 at 13:37
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
icemann on 11/6/2012 at 14:03
lol
nickie on 11/6/2012 at 14:06
I'm moving this to Technical & Troubleshooting. Hopefully you'll get more helpful replies than the last 3 posts.
voodoo47 on 11/6/2012 at 19:28
wine+ddfix 1.5.6 should get it running. install the game on a windows pc, fix it up with (
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7quQTgSRc9KMlZmeUlNSTVOWlk/edit) TFix, apply the hdradeon patch, and move the install to your mac. run it via wine, and it should work (may need to force windowed mode though). this has worked for me when I tried the game on ubuntu some time ago.
deathshadow on 19/6/2012 at 12:35
Been a while since I've done anything on a quack, but doesn't parallels fusion provide some directX support? What about Sun virtualbox? The latter is free and runs a great number of games halfway decent.
I'll see how Thief and Thief 2 do under VirtualBox on PC. Under Mac I believe compatibility is identical.
I'd dust off the hackintosh, but a GMA 950 isn't really enough to bother with.
