Dafydd on 16/6/2009 at 09:20

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I'm trying to switch my Thief playing to a newer, better computer I now have. Here is what I did:

1. I successfully installed T2 on the new machine. (I tried and failed to install TGold on that same machine, but that's a problem for another thread!)

2. I installed the 1.07 to 1.18 patch.

3. I installed all the various scripts I found (three major ones -- Telliamed (1.54), Nameless Voice (1.1.0), and Gaylesaver (I just now checked, and I think these are all the most recent versions).

4. I copied all my FMs from the old machine to the new, in a corresponding directory.

5. I downloaded, installed, and configured DarkLoader 4.3.

6. I loaded the particular mission I've been playing -- the Seven Shades of Mercury.

7. I copied all my savegames from the old to new computer.

8. I started T2; the SSofM load screen appeared, and I selected Load.

9. I loaded the last savegame... but the game crashed as soon as it started to play.

10. I tried starting the mission from the beginning, and it appeared to play; so for some reason, it can't seem to comprehend the savegames.

I really don't want to start all over again; does anybody have a thought or suggestion what could be causing this problem and what I do to fix it?

Thanks,

Dafydd

baeuchlein on 16/6/2009 at 11:40

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I regularly exchange saved games from FMs among several computers, and usually there is no problem with that. In theory, your approach should work.

With The Seven Shades of Mercury (version 1.1), however, I had problems loading some saved games even on the computer where I saved them. This happened in the area below the Cathedral where there is a metal bridge over a lava lake. If I save there and reload that game, Thief 2 crashes to the Desktop and will only work again if I restart the computer. In all other areas I have reached so far, saving and reloading works normally.

If that's not it, then I have another idea.

When I exchange saved games, I exchange the zipped saved games found in the allsaves folder of Darkloader. When I do that, I always select and "install" the Thief 2 original missions from within Darkloader. I do not exchange saved games from inside Thief 2's saves folder.

I think your way of exchanging the saved games should work, but I do not have much experience with it.

Dafydd on 17/6/2009 at 01:29

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Hm... I tried all three of those things, but I still get the same result.

I copied miss19.mis, HammerA.gam, and thief2.exe over from the old system (where the same FM is and has been installed all this time) to the new; then I copied over DarkLoader's entire allsaves directory (which in my system was a subdirectory under the Thief2 directory); then I used DarkLoader to load the OMs, then again to reload the Seven Shades of Mercury.

The initial screen looks all right; but when I try to load any savegame, I get the crash to the desktop (with the cheerful suggestion from Microsoft that I should send them all the info about the crash... yeah, what are they going to do about it? :rolleyes:)

Not only that, but I think I have to correct one earlier point: I tried playing from the start, and I saw the water... but then the game froze. I could still hear the audio, but I couldn't move or turn.

I had to use the Task Manager to quit; and while there (it took several tries), I noticed the CPU usage was 99% to 100%. So I don't think it's a savegame problem at all. For some reason, Thief2 isn't playing properly. It's just eating up all the (considerable) CPU power and freezing.

If you need to know my system configuration to make any suggestions, please tell me also how to find out that information (preferably something already in Windows XP SP3 or a free download, rather than something expensive I must buy!) I think I have an Intel Core Duo CPU, but I can't remember offhand the exact model... I saved the box, but it's off in a storage facility and hard to access.

This is really frustrating; I have a great computer system, but so far, I can't use it to play Thief!

Thanks,

Dafydd

ffox on 17/6/2009 at 08:30

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I'm baffled. Is it the same with a fresh quicksave?

To answer one of your previous questions, Start -> Run and type in dxdiag to get the system info.

ffox on 17/6/2009 at 10:08

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F11 and F12 on mine.