Gillie on 12/9/2007 at 21:20
I had a reply at Eidos. Still with the colours.
the only fix I have heard of is that if your monitor has two inputs and you have 2 video card slots on your motherboard you can install an older Nvidia card in that second slot, such as a 5900 or 6800 series card. You will have to switch back and forth between the two video cards in display properties when you want to play Thief 2. Thief 2 will look good as those versions still do dithering. Am not sure about the 7800 or 7900 series Nvidia cards.
It possibly might work. I am confused about these cards.
I can not find to buy a Nvida 5900/6800 PCI. The last post said the sky was bad too?
I have found a GEFORCE FX5200 would fit my pc the drivers should be compatible with vista.
Does any one know if T2 will play with this card??. How well it does play graphics too. If it worth a try or hassle??
I can not figure how old it is compared to the 5OO/6800
I have asked no one answered it.
I did actually get the game to play. After what @ DJ Riff said to do
That's not because of GF8800 or Vista. The culprit is your dual/quad core processor. You need to set affinity to one core for thief.exe/thief2.exe/dromed.exe etc.
Gambler on 13/9/2007 at 02:57
Does ATI have similar problems?
bikerdude on 13/9/2007 at 07:08
It was me that started that thread, and no there isnt a fix atm.
Quote Posted by Gambler
Does ATI have similar problems?
Yes, I tested a HD2900XT and it showed the same bad dithering/rendering issue as the 8x00 cards.
Quote Posted by Gillie
I have found a GEFORCE FX5200 would fit my pc the drivers should be compatible with vista.
Does any one know if T2 will play with this card??. How well it does play graphics too. If it worth a try or hassle??
I can not figure how old it is compared to the 5OO/6800
I have asked no one answered it.
It was me who suggested this (I started the thread) and I currently have a 8800GTX/PCX5900 combo and I use ultramon to switch between the cards (I change which card is the primary) so that thief plays on the 5900.
And yes thief will play on the 5200, but only upto 1280*1024 0xAA or 1024*768 with 2xAA. And the 5200 is a gen 5 card (Geforce 5) which is one behind the 6800 which is a gen 6 (GeForce 6).
Atm Yes! if you want to continue playing thief and have a 8x00 card in yer pc.
Quote Posted by BrendaM
Some thiefy person posted a link on Bluesnews this morning : ) Perhaps it will get this a little attention.
Were not only just discussing the presentation the work of the people from Looking Glass here--there are hundred hundreds of fan-made levels that people have put countless hours of work into.
Got a link Brenda
biker
Gillie on 13/9/2007 at 10:04
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
It was me who suggested this (I started the thread) and I currently have a 8800GTX/PCX5900 combo and I use ultramon to switch between the cards (I change which card is the primary) so that thief plays on the 5900.
And yes thief will play on the 5200, but only upto 1280*1024 0xAA or 1024*768 with 2xAA. And the 5200 is a gen 5 card (Geforce 5) which is one behind the 6800 which is a gen 6 (GeForce 6).
Atm Yes! if you want to continue playing thief and have a 8x00 card in yer pc.
biker
First I do apologise.:o
I should have read more. Thank you for the answer!.:)
I was thinking about giving up... I can not give up on Thief!!.
It might be worth looking still for a 6800 card somewhere to try as well.
Rogue Keeper on 13/9/2007 at 10:20
I report this problem with 7600GT as well. Especially the once beautiful night sky looks awful. I forgot the exact drivers version - from around the end of 2006 maybe.
Oh well, it looked gorgeous on my old 3Dfx Banshee, even though I couldn't afford higher resolutions.
bikerdude on 13/9/2007 at 17:55
Quote Posted by BR796164
I report this problem with 7600GT as well. Especially the once beautiful night sky looks awful.
This is a known issue, and is unrelated to the 8x00 problem
biker
nb. I have updated the main post, please check etc.
BrendaEM on 14/9/2007 at 10:04
I wonder if the new cards/drivers are totally misunderstanding what the brightness/gamma should look like.
It's funny that to my eye, most of the bright things are rendered correctly, but most of the shadows and dim things are not.
I've notice that Thied 2 does not honor adjustments made in Nvidia's gamma adjustments.
DJ Riff on 14/9/2007 at 10:13
Bikerdude, did you try Thief-1 with 163.44 drivers? Is this functioning?© With or without "anti-blackscreen fixed .exe"?
smithpd on 14/9/2007 at 15:38
Quote Posted by BrendaEM
It's funny that to my eye, most of the bright things are rendered correctly, but most of the shadows and dim things are not.
That is correct. The problem is evidently that the dark colors have an insufficient number of entries in the color table, so dithering is needed to represent the dark colors correctly. Dithering does not work on recent Nvidia cards (after 5xxx). If you use an older card (such as my Ti 4200) that has the dithering working, you can see the dither pattern and the improved dark colors. On the other hand, the lighter colors evidently have sufficient color table entries, so the lack of dithering does not affect them.
The same problem occurs with both the 8xxx series and the previous series, 68xx and 79xx. I am still waiting for some kind soul to make side by side screen shots of the 8xxx and a 7xxx cards with dark textures such as my bedspread shots (see link below) so I can see with my own eyes what the difference are, if any.
(
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=35500&st=0&p=248720&#entry248720) See here for more detail. You might also post in that thread in a hope to get Nvidia's attention.
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I've notice that Thied 2 does not honor adjustments made in Nvidia's gamma adjustments.
I noticed this myself several years ago, and I complained bitterly at the time, but now it works for me. I don't know what made it work or when the change occurred. It could be my upgrade from Windows 98 to 2000 or to XP. It could be the driver version I am using. I am running XP and (
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1744187&postcount=302) these drivers. These modified drivers play T1 and recognize all cards in the 7xxx series and below. The Nvidia Custom Color Settings work with Thief 2 in my current configuration.
