Jefftime on 16/9/2020 at 13:58
Hello! New member here and have been loving the fan missions I've tried out from this contest so far.
I can't seem to get this mission to load at all. When I hit play, it crashes before I even get in game. I'm playing with a GOG copy of Thief II. I tried updating to NewDark 1.27, copying the files over into the directory. I set my audio channels to 48 and hardware acceleration to on. Still crashes. Any advice?
I've loaded it with both DarkLoader and FMsel, and both seem to be fine, so I don't think it's the loader
EDIT: I actually figured out what I did. Since I primarily use DarkLoader, and this mission wasn't showing up in the list (since it's a .7z not a .zip) I had decompressed it, and then rezipped it and put it in my FM directory. This made it show up in DarkLoader, but apparently broke it. Given the advice I found elsewhere in these forums, I don't think I'll be using DarkLoader anymore :). I redownloaded the mission, reinstalled Thief 2, and used FMsel instead and it was able to load into the first cinematic!
Hopefully this is useful info for anyone else that had this issue
Looking forward to trying this mission out!
Necrohowl on 25/8/2021 at 10:24
Does anybody have a Walkthrough link for this? I'd like to explore the mission to the 100%, but I also wanna be sure I do that, hence walkthrough.
Kinda wish Ricebug was still motivated for making walkthroughs, heh.
On another note, as much as I love the mission, I really don't like the "technical difficulties" it has, what with having to set Sky Detail to Low even for an amazing PC lest you will suffer very low frames, and the fact OpenAL causes extremely loud noise issues.
Dahenjo on 25/8/2021 at 11:19
Don't forget we have this wonderful resource now:
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https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151182) Walkthroughs, Loot lists and Lets Plays...All in one place!
Fortuni's walkthrough is excellent and in the same style as Ricebug's:
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xML3IisFiI4EnH1xIFvJVdEbkLDgyVPk/view)
I just played a half-hr of it at 4K resolution with regular/high quality settings, got bounced to desktop once when coming outside after the elevator ride up, then reloaded and repeated doing that several times without a crash running all around outside. It's only that one spot so you can change the Sky Detail to low if needed then put it back after getting inside.
FireMage on 25/8/2021 at 12:55
Quote Posted by Dahenjo
Don't forget we have this wonderful resource now:
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https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151182) Walkthroughs, Loot lists and Lets Plays...All in one place!
Fortuni's walkthrough is excellent and in the same style as Ricebug's:
(
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xML3IisFiI4EnH1xIFvJVdEbkLDgyVPk/view)
I just played a half-hr of it at 4K resolution with regular/high quality settings, got bounced to desktop once when coming outside after the elevator ride up, then reloaded and repeated doing that several times without a crash running all around outside. It's only that one spot so you can change the Sky Detail to low if needed then put it back after gettting inside.
This issue of crash is actually due to just a mistype in one of my scripts which does an infinite loop and overload memory. You just have to save once and reload to get rid of this issue as reloading interrupt the loop once and for all.
I will never stop to apologize for this issue
Necrohowl on 25/8/2021 at 13:29
Quote Posted by Dahenjo
Don't forget we have this wonderful resource now:
(
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151182) Walkthroughs, Loot lists and Lets Plays...All in one place!
Fortuni's walkthrough is excellent and in the same style as Ricebug's:
(
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xML3IisFiI4EnH1xIFvJVdEbkLDgyVPk/view)
I just played a half-hr of it at 4K resolution with regular/high quality settings, got bounced to desktop once when coming outside after the elevator ride up, then reloaded and repeated doing that several times without a crash running all around outside. It's only that one spot so you can change the Sky Detail to low if needed then put it back after getting inside.
Thanks a lot, very useful!
I did beat it completely, with all secrets, but I never knew there was an Easter Egg there, I should get it.
Quote Posted by FireMage
This issue of crash is actually due to just a mistype in one of my scripts which does an infinite loop and overload memory. You just have to save once and reload to get rid of this issue as reloading interrupt the loop once and for all.
I will never stop to apologize for this issue
If you were to make a new version or so, wouldn't it be fixable, then?
FireMage on 25/8/2021 at 13:49
Quote Posted by Necrohowl
Thanks a lot, very useful!
I did beat it completely, with all secrets, but I never knew there was an Easter Egg there, I should get it.
If you were to make a new version or so, wouldn't it be fixable, then?
It is! And I even already found the solution to this problem but not published yet as I would like to fix several other things.
But atm, I am too busy with The Black Parade and irl stuff to work on it.
When TBP will be out, I'll certainly fix Whistling of the Gears and Builder's Paradise like promised! :D
Thinking Robot on 25/8/2021 at 13:54
Quote Posted by FireMage
It is! And I even already found the solution to this problem but not published yet as I would like to fix several other things.
But atm, I am too busy with The Black Parade and irl stuff to work on it.
When TBP will be out, I'll certainly fix Whistling of the Gears and Builder's Paradise like promised! :D
Sounds good! Is there still a lot of work to do for the Black Parade project?
FireMage on 26/8/2021 at 15:35
Quote Posted by Thinking Robot
Sounds good! Is there still a lot of work to do for the Black Parade project?
Nice try! :cheeky:
But I won't say anything about the campaign! ;)
Orfeus21 on 13/3/2022 at 17:03
Im using newdark 1.7 but when i load the mission I get the original thief 2 interference! same with troubling transitions and my favourite year! all other missions work
baeuchlein on 13/3/2022 at 20:09
Quote Posted by Orfeus21
Im using newdark 1.7
There is no NewDark v1.7. The newest version is v1.27.