Thief:Gold and Windows 7

bigshaun6767 on 19/4/2010 at 08:34

I got it working but still crashes when going to options menu

Thanks

Brian The Dog on 19/4/2010 at 23:50

Some quick checks:
- Have you tried installing DDFix manually? You need a different version of the DDFix graphical installer for x64 versions of Windows.
- Make sure the graphics resolutions are 1280 x 1024 in both the ddfix.ini and the thief config (cfg) file. That's probably the best one to try out while debugging. The resolutions must be "standard" 4:3 ones.
- GarrettLoader won't make any difference to the Dark engine, so it's probably best to leave it uninstalled while you try to fix Thief.

Psychomorph on 2/4/2012 at 02:12

I bought Thief gold and Thief 2 from GoG.com. Both have ddfix installed already. I only need to apply the widescreen patch to Thief 2 and it works. Thief Gold however doesn't. The games menu launches in windowed mode and maps are not loaded, the screen remains black after the cutscene.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Psychomorph on 15/4/2012 at 03:44

Shame there is no solution for this. :(

voodoo47 on 15/4/2012 at 16:04

try the sticky on the gog thief forum.

andrei178 on 17/5/2012 at 12:13

It's 2012 and this still helped loads. Thanks a lot!! :)

Quote Posted by Namdrol

(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031) http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031
If you'd looked in this thread you'd have found what you need to know. :p

I actually installed TG on Win7 this morning.

OK, Put CD in drive -
Go to Start, then Run, then type d:\setup.exe -lgntforce, where d:\ is your CDrom/DVDrom drive.

Install, run it (to set up the cam.cfg file), it will probably freeze and you'll have no vids.
Close it down.
(http://www.filefront.com/14667053/ddfix1.3.11.zip/) Extract DDfix to the directory your Thief.exe is in.
Run the ddfixGUI.exe (right click, run as administrator), check the video fix box and choose what resolution you want. (if you have a wide screen/non standard resolution monitor, then just leave it on 800x600 and we'll fix it later). Click apply patch.
Go to the Thief Gold shortcut on your desktop or the THIEF.exe file, right click, go to compatibility, choose XP, service pack2 and run as administrator.
There we go.
If you have a wide screen monitor now extract the (http://files.filefront.com/DarkWidescreen+v6r3zip/;13839558;/fileinfo.html) widescreen fix to the folder with your thief exe in. Run the DarkWidescreen.bat file and enter your resolution. Enter 100 for the fov.

Sit back and enjoy Thief Gold.

Godfather on 20/12/2012 at 10:30

Guys, I have a problem. I installed Thief Gold by following your instructions because I have Windows7 and every time I try to play thief, the game blocks, it stops completely after a while and I don't know what to do...help please:confused:

voodoo47 on 20/12/2012 at 10:58

(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134733)

have you seriously dug up a 2010 topic instead of just reading the big stickied one?

gnartsch on 20/12/2012 at 10:59

Quote Posted by Godfather

The instructions above are pretty much outdated, since in october a miracle happened and an ultimate fix (NewDark v1.19) has been gifted to the community.
I would recommend to start from scratch using the instructions that voodoo47 just pointed you to:
The (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134733) TFix patch contains basicly everything you need in a convenient way.

Welcome to the forum, Godfather !

Michael. on 16/1/2013 at 21:58

Quote Posted by Namdrol

I actually installed TG on Win7 this morning.

OK, Put CD in drive -
Go to Start, then Run, then type d:\setup.exe -lgntforce, where d:\ is your CDrom/DVDrom drive.

Hello,
when I type d:\setup.exe -lgntforce nothing happens.
I can't install Thief Gold and Thief 2 on Win 7 with DirectX 9.29 but I had it installed on my old CPU with Win 7. :confused: