Snakebite on 12/12/2009 at 10:54

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Definitely it's a lot smoother transition. And WOW: thief in 1680x1050 (patched for wide, of course). At home I set the resolution at 1024x768 and used the LCD incorporated function for "4:3 in wide", but now I will really put widescreen fix at home too.
Anyway thanks for the advice. It's an improvement to the "situation" :cheeky: . It's not the perfect but it should do till I find a better way. Thank you.:thumb:

Snakebite on 20/12/2009 at 06:38

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If that is a question both patches work with all Thief games and more (all Dark Engine games). Check the link above. You got all the info there

Diablo_NL on 12/11/2010 at 18:38

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Thread necromancy go!

Don't need this help for myself but someone I know, as it is impossible to run Thief in windowed mode for Windows 7 apparently (I am behind the times and still on XP). So if you guys know anything that does work, it would be great to hear about it.

Gerhard Eichberger on 1/1/2021 at 17:09

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Gerhard Eichberger


Now I have found this thread by chance. Although it is very old, I want to answer as there are some aspects that were not mentioned here and are, as I think, very important.


I know, I also worked in an office.

At first I want to say that it is a large risk. Playing in the job on the computers from your Employer is playing with your job. If someone would do this in the office where I worked, he/she would be fired. So I can't suggest anyone to install games on the computers at work.

At second the technical problem:

When we have got computers at work, they were 386ers, later 486ers and Pentium P5s. They had Windows for Workgroups 3.11, later Windows NT 3.51 and later Windows NT 4.0. (I don't know what the actual computers there have.) This means that the computers were old when we have got them. And it also means that there was no DirectX on the computers. Also there was no ability to install programs from a CD here as there was no CD drive in the computers. (The server was in a locked room in the cellar, and no one in our office had a key for that room, even not our boss who was the boss of the office, but he had a chief in the central office in Vienna, and when needed then an operator of the of the data center came with the key to open the door. The updates of the computers were not made via Internet but via Datex-J that was also used to send data to the data center where they had an IBM /370. (Did I mention that our system was pretty old although new installed?)

The computers in my job did not only miss a CD drive, they even had no soundcard. Also later when we had Internet and "normal" computers (probably with a soundcard) we couldn't play music as there was no program to do that - f.e. YouTube and all other websites to watch videos or hear music were blocked or locked. Even the search engines (f.e. Google, Altavista, or Yahoo) were blocked - we always got a message saying (in German) something like "This website is blocked. You cannot call it."

Also no one has tried to experiment with the computers - the fear of losing their job kept the colleagues from trying it out.

A friend could also not experiment on his PC at work. Although this PC had an internet connection he could not open the Windows Explorer, or the Internet Explorer. Trying to do that opened a window saying "You are not authorized to perform this function." (This happened also when he hitted the Windows-key on the left-down side of the keyboard.)

(I'm not sure how to run Thief 1, Thief Gold, or Thief 2 with Windows NT 3.51 or with Windows NT 4.0 without DirectX. So I played the games always just at home...)



You could make a test with DxDiag.


Gerhard

ddaymace on 5/1/2021 at 22:25

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I am doing this with just TFix with the GOG version of Thief Gold, and I am noticing: the window constantly (anytime transitioning to and from the 3d engine) centers itself on my screen, when I would like it to stay in the corner. Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent this behavior?

Thanks