bikerdude on 4/5/2008 at 22:23

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What version of T3 have you got...?


* retail
* direct2drive (or simlar)
* or something else..?

biker

bcuda on 11/5/2008 at 05:40

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To kick Vista out of the equation I installed XP on another partition and tried reinstalling T3. Still no difference at all.

Symptom recap:
Install T3 with no errors.
Set processor affinity to one of the 4.
Start T3.
I get the C++ Runtime error.
The mouse cursor changes to an active CD icon until manually setting the mouse pointers back - or restarting.
The CD drive no longer ejects except by "force" (inserting a paper clip in the manual ejection hole) or restarting the PC.
Tried setting the processor affinity to each of the other 3 - no difference.

Just for fun I installed it on an older Dell, single-CPU P4 running Windows XP and T3 runs with no problem.

It doesn't make sense - the C++ Runtime error is essentially immediate. T3 bombs out on my HP so fast that I doubt it gets a chance to start loading any drivers..

Any suggestions???

bcuda on 11/5/2008 at 18:29

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I've eliminated all non-essential software/services - no change.

I've installed the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86), Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86) SP!, and then Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86). No change with any of them.

I've updated my video driver to nVidia's latest - 175.16 beta - no change.

Out of desperation I even tried starting in Safe Mode to see if I could even get a different error message - no change.

One thought, might it be that my CD is SATA have something to do with it? If so, are there any other methods that might work with T3 so I could try it as a test? :nono: :tsktsk: :eww: :erg:

bcuda on 12/5/2008 at 17:16

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Since I'm not even getting to the first "EIDOS" screen, Are there and command-line switches to bypass these and go straight to either the "Main Menu" or directly load a saved game?

ercles on 9/7/2008 at 08:30

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Hi, sorry about the necromancy, but I am experiencing a slightly different problem of the same type. I am trying to buy a retail copy of Deadly Shadows on a new Vista laptop, with an intel core 2 duo processor 2ghz, with 3 gigs of ram.

It doesn't have a graphics card, but it shares memory. This is the info I could scrounge on the graphics hardware:

Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium* , (6.0.6000)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 10.0
Physical Memory: 3061 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 358 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 203 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13
Processor Speed: 1994 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2A02
Device Revision: 0C

And finally, to the problem: I load thief 3, and it is all good until I hit new game, and then start, and it crashes once it has completed loading, this is the error displayed...

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: T3Main.EXE
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 4099f594
Fault Module Name: igdumd32.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.14.10.1409
Fault Module Timestamp: 477bc05d
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0004ba80
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: 2fe4
Additional Information 2: aab972ef55443ce7f379b1c9c5dd197c
Additional Information 3: e27a
Additional Information 4: bc8580686122afc63fbac8c575699265

I admit that I am completely hopeless at this kind of thing, and I was just hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction.

Cheers