Whatever I try,ddfix widescreenmod tafferpatche, thief wont to run in win7x64 anymore

Bonusbartus on 27/5/2010 at 05:54

Hi guys,

I thought to be smart and tried reinstalling my perfectly fine working thief 2....
on a windows 7 x64 pc... It just worked a few months ago on the same system, with an old version of ddfix and an old widescreen patch, but I wanted to try tafferpatcher and all of its extra stuff...
now the game just keeps crashing immediatly after starting I tried reinstalling it a few times, and Icould only track the problem down to ddfix, if I don't patch the thief2.exe with ddfix it runs, it works even with the widescreenpatch (altough I cant start a mission then without ddfix...).
I tried different thif2.exe files, one form my laptop (where thief2 is working fine), the one from the link in the ddfix thread, the one that is automatically installed with the 1.07to1.18 patch but nothing works... I am sure I put the right resolution in the ddfix.ini and the cam.cfg...
anyone any idea?

thanks...

Brian The Dog on 27/5/2010 at 13:34

Try installing DDFix manually via a Hex editor, as described in the Readme that comes with it. There's a problem when using the pre-patched exe when the architecture of the host is not x86.

Bonusbartus on 27/5/2010 at 13:44

I'll try that when I'm home...
but as I said, I tried more than the pre-patched exe only, I tried patching the original .exe, which was just updated to 1.18 with DDfixgui.exe at the x64bit pc, and also on a 32 bit pc...

but I will try :)

Bonusbartus on 29/5/2010 at 17:53

Damn I am just stupid,
somehow the problem was caused by a driver setting, didn't have any thing to do with ddfix...
what I did find out however is that the game runs perfectly at 1680x1050 with a combined 2x2Supersampling + 4xMultisampling antialiassing filter via enhancer and the game looks better than ever before ;)