Dainem on 1/10/2012 at 23:17
Hello.
I am curious if anybody of you know a quick way of a complete re-installation of the Thief games. I am trying a lot of things with the new patch and therefore I am sometimes forced to do a clean installation.
Current I have my CDs as images on my HDD and install the Games via Daemon Tools. But I am getting tired of changing them two times for every installation.
Is is for example possible to put the Thief folders in zip- archives and just extract them?
epithumia on 1/10/2012 at 23:35
Run the GOG installers (just one exe to run per game), install whatever patches you want, configure as you like, then zip up the results so you don't have to do all of that again.
voodoo47 on 1/10/2012 at 23:49
I usually just zip the fresh, clean install, then just unpack it when I need it.
Dainem on 1/10/2012 at 23:50
GOG only has Thief in the english language, am I right? Than this is not an option.
Weasel on 2/10/2012 at 00:07
Once you have Thief installed once, it should be possible to make a copy of the whole folder and/or zip it up. I've done it.
MrMunkeepants on 5/10/2012 at 21:17
I kind of been wondering something similar myself: there have been so many mods and enhancement kits (and now the new patch) over the years, it's kind of hard to know which overlap, which work well together, and what order to put it all in. Is there a guide for getting the maximum out of T/T2?
nickie on 6/10/2012 at 00:06
Reading pretty much every post, I have to admit that I'm verging on brain explosion with the various patches for this, that and the other, and whether they're included or needed in this, that and the other. But, once I have one set-up organised with what I want included, it will merely be what I've always done - copy and paste. I'm happy that at least I've got a new working T2 on a usb stick so I won't always need to take my laptop with me.
At some point, I can see there's going to have to be an overhaul of the various relevant FAQs and we only finished redoing them a couple of months ago. Damn your eyes Monsieur Corbeau!
Edit. I should say that having now installed and tried it myself, there probably won't be any need for any overhaul but it would be good to eventually get something together for installing the various patches.
Constance on 7/10/2012 at 08:18
Quote Posted by Weasel
Once you have Thief installed once, it should be possible to make a copy of the whole folder and/or zip it up. I've done it.
Yep, indeed. You just might need to adjust the various paths in install.cfg or darkinst.cfg to either make it "portable" before you create your archive, or modify it after you uncompress it to a different drive/folder upon "reinstalling".
However, if for some reason you
really want to use your CD images, you may just do that :
- create two virtual drives
- mount each disc image to a different drive
- run the installer from disc 1
Then when the installer prompts you to insert the next disc, you'll just have to type the drive letter to the other virtual drive and it shall continue.
Note : Some other games (for example Diablo II if I remember well) automatically browse all your drives and don't even prompt you for their path as long as all required CD images are mounted at time they are needed ^^
LarryG on 7/10/2012 at 17:00
I haven't tested this latey, but if I remember correcty, you don't even need a virtual drive, you can just dump the contents of disk 1 into a folder, then the contents of disk 2 into the same folder and run with no prompts. That's if I recall correctly.
voodoo47 on 7/10/2012 at 18:01
but you will have to create a correct darkinstall.cfg manually, if I remember correctly.
