Tannar on 20/5/2010 at 23:18
Need some help. Suddenly, I can't play any Thief fan missions or the OMs using Darkloader or Garrettloader. It was working fine yesterday. I didn't change anything on my computer between yesterday and today. The missions will install fine in both DL and GL but when I try to play them it just crashes to the desktop. I just get the standard windows error message...
Thief2: The Metal Age has stopped working
...and the choice to look online for a solution or close the program.
I have two separate installs of Thief2. I thought maybe the one I normally use got corrupted somehow so I pointed both DL and GL to the other install. Same problem.
I uninstalled and reinstalled one of my T2 installations and tried to just run Thief.exe. Same problem, so we can rule out DL and GL I think.
I ran a complete virus scan, no virus.
Anyone have any ideas?
Here are my specs:
Dell Inspiron 1526 notebook
Processor: Dual core AMD 64 2Ghz
Memory: 3 Gb RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1270
OS: Windows Vista 32 bit
Darkloader v4.3
Garrettloader v1.419
Free disk space: ~ 70 Gb
LarryG on 21/5/2010 at 22:27
Here is an idea: Maybe you have reached a free disk space limit. I can't recall the exact threshold, but Thief is so old that modern drives have way more storage than Thief allows for. So when your used space reaches any multiple of the maximum that Thief thinks is possible, it crashes, thinking that there is no space left. All you have to do is increase or decrease your storage usage so that it is not near that boundary. This causes Thief now think you have enough free space. I keep extra copies of Thief installed just so that I can copy or delete whole installations. That always gets me over this.
Tannar on 21/5/2010 at 22:38
Thanks, Larry. I'll give that a try.
EDIT: Nope, that didn't fix it. Thanks anyway.
I tried it again and when I got the error this time, I noticed there was an error log:
Application Timestamp: 38dfb97a
Fault Module Name: lgvid.ax
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 325977a7
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000151d
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 56dd
Additional Information 2: 4d8213becb00cf1775981efa2b594ccd
Additional Information 3: 199c
Additional Information 4: a523b2a71634035bff6790fa665212b8
I noticed the Fault Module Name was lgvid.ax so I did a search for that and found the solution on the SS2 forum about halfway down this thread page:
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http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117616&page=50)
Seems to be working now. Thanks for the suggestions though, Larry.
LarryG on 22/5/2010 at 06:04
So, any guesses as to why that started happening to you just now? Did you change to the widescreen patch or something? Anyhow, glad you fixed it!:thumb:
Tannar on 22/5/2010 at 06:40
No, that's the really weird part. I hadn't changed a single thing on my computer. One minute it's working fine, then next it's not. Go figure. :p
