Thief Series FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (Technical / Purchasing / Etc.) - 2012 - by sNeaksieGarrett
Liz on 27/2/2015 at 22:24
Hi,
I did managed to install the game (using TGTool), but have graphic problems:
low details (the water looks solid, everything looks so dark that even in full brightness I can hardly see) and I can't read readables.
I tried installing NewDark MOD ver 1.22 and Tafferpatcher.
After installing Tafferpatcher the graphic is better, but I the readables are still blanck and some walls, floors and rooms/areas are all black, until I inter them (then the area I came from is totally black).
I had no problem playing in this laptop with windows XP.
Please help this poor taffer. :(
Thanks,
Liz
sNeaksieGarrett on 28/2/2015 at 04:59
You'd be better off posting this in a new thread so you get better exposure.
Wait, so you are talking about Thief Gold? I see you mention TGTool, but then you said you used newdark/tafferpatcher. Tafferpatcher, as far as I know, is for Thief 2 only. Unless that has changed. I'm not sure what is going on, why things are black... Sorry I'm not more helpful, hopefully someone else will come around. I admit I am behind the times on this stuff, haven't been following the updates. Plus, with newer and newer hardware there's bound to be newer problems. It may just be that Thief doesn't work properly on your system.
I would suggest posting this in a new thread and provided as much detail as possible, such as what operating system you are using, graphics card, etc.
Liz on 28/2/2015 at 11:14
Thank 59sNeaksieGarrett
I'm talking about Thief 2, but I was totally tired and missed the other options, so I tried TGTool first :erm:)
I opened an new thread (at the Thief Series General Discussion forum), as you suggested.
Thanks again :)
Liz
llanita on 7/9/2015 at 10:03
Hi, I'm getting a new desktop and I want to do clean installs of the game. So I've been reading up on the latest patches for each of the 3 games. So each folder has its own NewDark?
And continue to use Darkloader as the FM 'hub' to play all the Thief fms?
llanita on 23/9/2015 at 16:00
I won't be using Darkloader on my new pc, but I want to save the list of fms with all the comments I've made. Is there a way to do that? I tried to copy and paste but it won't do that.
Any suggestions would be welcome. I know I could copy them by hand but the list is very long
Tannar on 27/9/2015 at 05:00
The list of FMs with your comments is in the Darkloader folder. The file name is DarkLoader.ini. This is just a text file and any text editor (such as Notepad) will open it. It saves some other data as well, and you can either keep that or delete it.
It will probably take a bit of time to go through it, depending upon how many missions you've played with Darkloader. A simple way to look through the file is to hit CTRL+F. This will bring up the "Find" dialogue. Enter the word "title" into the "Find what" field and hit the "Find Next" button. Just keep hitting Find Next to scroll through all mission titles.
If you know how to work with delimited files, you could set this up in Excel and have it automatically arrange the data in the file into columns. Then all your comments would be in one column and the corresponding titles would be in another. You could then just delete all the other columns and keep those two.
TheDarkOne93 on 13/11/2015 at 01:34
How do I stop the CD check on Thief 2?
(Ie, when I start the game without a CD, it gives me, "There is no CD in the Drive." message, but the game runs without it after I push continue 3 times.
