Videos not playing in Thief 2 - Already tried the usual methods

Fearless Son on 26/7/2009 at 19:26

Okay, before anyone asks, yes, I did read the sticky, and yes, I tried every option expected to get the movies playing again.

None of them worked.

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, and I know that these movies were working for me on this computer earlier. However, between now and the last time I played Thief 2, I had installed a large third-party pack of many video codecs to play some old video files I had lying on my hard drive. That was a mistake, as not only will the Thief movies no longer play, but I cannot even stream MPEG files to WMP any more (I have to go through QTP for that now.) I have attempted, many, many times, to correct this wrong by re-installing the Indeo codecs, but no amount of reinstallation seems to resolve the issue. I have been using the command prompt to manually register as many irXX_32.dll files as I can, but nothing has shown results. I can still hear the audio to the files when played in WMP, but the video is shot and all I see is the virtualizer.

Anyone know of any other methods I can use?

bikerdude on 27/7/2009 at 15:42

Quote Posted by Fearless Son

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, I have attempted, many, many times, to correct this wrong by re-installing the Indeo codecs, but no amount of reinstallation seems to resolve the issue. I have been using the command prompt to manually register as many irXX_32.dll files as I can, but nothing has shown results. I can still hear the audio to the files when played in WMP, but the video is shot and all I see is the virtualizer.

You might have to download and install a codec pack that support x64 version of windows...that said I could have sworn that Theif 2 ran correctly in W7 X64 with out any special x64 compatable codecs.

Im sure someone will be along shortly..

Fearless Son on 28/7/2009 at 05:55

Well, it did run correctly on Vista Ultimate x64 before. I know because it used to work on this very same machine, very same OS install. The third-party codec pack is the only thing that I could think of that might have caused this.

Does anyone know how to uninstall all non-stock codecs from a Vista machine? If I could do that, I could selectively re-add codecs and make sure that they work.

voodoo47 on 28/7/2009 at 08:03

I would try wiping out all codecs from the system (google for tools if you can't do it manually,I think cccp insurgent can help a bit) and installing the cccp codec pack-while I haven't tried it specifically on vista64,it has always worked for me on any machine/system I had in my hands (playing all movie files and thief videos),so I guess its worth a shot.

Ostriig on 29/7/2009 at 00:42

Can I piggie back my way in here too? Just installed Thief 2 and I'm also getting instant crash as soon as the screen goes black and I assume it's trying to play the intro.

Windows XP Professional 32bit SP3, C2D 1.83, 2GB RAM, HD 2400XT. Dual core patch has been applied via imgcfg. Attempted all three fixes outlined in the FAQ - manual run of iv5play.exe (reports that nothing was installed because newer versions are present, but then reports installation finished succesfully), regsrv32.bat method, manual regsrv32 registration via Run. No success. CCCP is already installed and the only codec pack on this machine, as far as I remember.

When running, the game crashes and the Visual Studio Debugger returns the following message:

Quote:

An unhandled win32 exception occurred in THIEF2.ICD[random number].

voodoo47 on 29/7/2009 at 14:06

this does not seem like a video related issue to me.try renaming your movies folder,the game should start working if this really is just a video issue (skipping the cutscenes,of course).

Ostriig on 29/7/2009 at 14:28

You're right, thank you for that. I renamed the movies folder and it's still crashing on start-up. I'll take this to a new thread.

Fearless Son on 29/7/2009 at 20:15

How odd. CCCP Insurgent showed no codec packs installed...

When I installed the CCCP Codec Pack, it said something about MKV Splitter being on the system and known to cause problems, then prompted me if it could disable it. I hope that this works...

Excellent! Installing the CCCP Codec Pack seems to have solved the issue, and the movies are now playing! A big thank you shout-out to voodoo47! :D