kage61 on 6/8/2008 at 05:15
My system:
Win XP SP2
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
MB: Gigabyte ga-k8u-939
1 gig ddr sdram
nvidea geforce fx 5900 XT (128mb)
Does this system look good to run the original theif I?
Can I assume that I will have to spend quiet a few hours installing patches, tweaking to get it to run? Has anyone every been able to just install and go on an XP system? Thanks much.
bikerdude on 6/8/2008 at 08:44
Quote Posted by kage61
My system:
Win XP SP2
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
MB: Gigabyte ga-k8u-939
1 gig ddr sdram
nvidea geforce fx 5900 XT (128mb)
Does this system look good to run the original theif I?
Can I assume that I will have to spend quiet a few hours installing patches, tweaking to get it to run? Has anyone every been able to just install and go on an XP system? Thanks much.
Yes, more than capable, but if you intend to run ddfix T1, you might need a beefier graphics card...
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poroshin on 6/8/2008 at 16:15
Quote Posted by kage61
Can I assume that I will have to spend quiet a few hours installing patches, tweaking to get it to run? Has anyone every been able to just install and go on an XP system? Thanks much.
Actually this is no longer true. All you need is the DDFix (and the Widescreen patch, if you have a widescreen monitor). Also, I'm not sure if DDFix already does this, but you may force AA/AF on in your nVidia control panel to get even better graphics.
Bjossi on 6/8/2008 at 19:21
To get the game running (at all) doesn't necessarily need any tweaks on that system.
But it is a good idea to install DDfix. I did get T1 running before DDfix existed but it played way too fast and I had to use software rendering. Installing DDfix made T1 a whole new game for me; D3D and normal gameplay speed along with AF. Not to mention it supports modern graphics cards and drivers. :cool:
Thor on 6/8/2008 at 21:18
/sarcasm on
no, it wont run -_- because your PC is too weak and doesn't meet the requirements...
Bjossi on 6/8/2008 at 21:27
That was actually my thought at first when I saw the thread title, was the guy talking about meeting the actual requirements or was it yet another concern due to the game's age? :p
kage61 on 10/8/2008 at 05:12
Well im baffled buy the several people that said it worked on their xp system with no tweaks. I tried it in 3 seperate systems. I got it to play on only 1 - my ancient thinkpad pent 3. That would be fine except the graphics are terrible - eventually all walls turn to red squares. Plus it ran too slow on the thinkpad - had to play in 640x480 to get anything smooth.
I thought it was going to run on my inspiron athlon 64 x2 laptop, as it installed, but game freezes right off the bat. Tried the solution for that from the faq about dual processors, but for me when I go to affinity it already shows that only one chip is running.
On the system mentioned at the top of this tread it won't install at all. :o(
Bjossi on 10/8/2008 at 05:37
A dualcore processor is just one chip. Do you mean CPU1 is greyed out or not checked? The former would indicate that the 2nd core is disabled in the BIOS, if that is even possible. :erm:
kage61 on 10/8/2008 at 06:25
cpu 0 is the one that is checked. There is the option to check cpu 1 also, but by default when I bring that screen up, only cpu 0 is checked.
I ran ddfix on the Inspiron which did not solve the issue.
kage61 on 10/8/2008 at 18:09
Well, it's running on my old thinkpad pent 3. I wish I could get it to run on the Inspiron as for the 8 or so frames I actually saw before it froze it was super smooth in full res on that computer. But guess I'll be glad it will play at all.
With the thinkpad in full screen res its a bit choppy but playable. Then there's the issue of walls and other things turning red but all I have to do is exit and come back and its back to normal.
