Calibrator on 21/8/2005 at 07:14
Hi John,
Part 2 has some great design & detail and is a major improvement over your earlier missions! :thumb:
But I have heavy problems with the stability with the second part. The start is fine and dandy but starting with the area of the jail (around & inside) the framerate goes into the cellar. In the deepest cellar - meaning it becomes unplayable. Regardless of the screen resolution and without any power-hungry settings like antialias or anisotropic filtering, I might add.
I also have a savegame that crashes the game back to the desktop... :eek:
As I have a sufficent system (Athlon XP 3000+, 1 GB, Geforce FX5900XT, WinXP) and working drivers (no problems with other missions) I'm fairly sure that these are not the problem. But I'm open to suggestions, of course.
BackStabSmiley on 21/8/2005 at 07:43
John, great mission - well done.
By the way, I returned to Johns house with everything else accomplished,
and the final objective didn't tick off... :erg: Oh well.
Yet again, well done. Keep it up, waiting for the next mission! :)
bss :sly:
SirFreddieM on 21/8/2005 at 09:45
BackStabSmiley.
[SPOILER]Use the box next to the bed and out the window. Voila.[/SPOILER]
:thumb:
prjames on 21/8/2005 at 11:36
I'm having the same problems as Calibrator. Near the jail in Part 2 (it started when I roped up to the roof and then roped down to the jail area) the frame rate became dog slow. I changed the resolution from 1024x768 to 800x600, and that helped somewhat, but it's still very noticable.
I also have had problems with save games that die ("Windows has encountered a problem - do you want to send an error report?") in this same area. One occurred when I blackjacked the lady in the upstairs cell of the jail, another occurred after I blackjacked the dude sleeping on the street outside the jail but who wakes up if you walk by him, another occurred in the food shop outside the walkway where the un-blackjackable guard is patrolling. I am playing at the second "KO" difficulty (medium). The save games issue is making this much more unplayable than the framerate issue.
My machine can also definitely handle Thief 2 (AMD Athlon 2500, although Windows XP thinks its only running 1.83 GHz, 512 Meg RAM, a BFGTech 5500 (a NVidia GEForce FX 5500)) so I don't think it's my machine.
- prjames
Sir Lance on 21/8/2005 at 12:09
prjames - I can't understand why you get the save and framerate problems. My PC is 1700 and Windows ME. I am also playing it on medium difficulty and have haven't had any problems.
teemac on 21/8/2005 at 13:29
I have had slow downs in the same areas also but not so bad as to stop play (AMD xp64 3500+ with 1gb Dual Ram and fx5900 card, winxp pro with sp2/3). I also have had several crashes. The crashes are probably from being in areas I am not supposed to reach - [SPOILER]like the area above the 3 balconies over the canal. This is a 3 story bar/pub. I got to the top of the building and saw a brief glimpse of a transformer power station room[/SPOILER] then I was spat out of the game with a "windows error - do you want to send it etc".
I have done everything except smash the window over the Blacksmith's.
I can't find any blacksmith's shop [SPOILER]only a foundry with a double shutter window in the front of a building high up just past the foundry. I've used fire arrows etc to try and break it but nothing happens. I thought it must have to be blackjacked - so -[/SPOILER] Every time I try to box up to it from the roof next door I lose 2 or 3 health points when I place a crate.
Is this the Blacksmith's shop or have I totally missed it?
Any help would be appreciated - Thanks.
john9818a on 21/8/2005 at 14:30
The blacksmith is the building with the double doors. The sign in front has three gears on it.
I don't really know what could be causing the slow frame rates and crashes. I'm using a P4 2.66 with 512MB and an InVidia 5700LE and only had frame rate problems when I had the grandfather clock running at 100 times normal speed. In this version the clock is running at normal speed.
I'll take a look again. Maybe there is a bad AI somewhere. :confused:
Zwolf on 21/8/2005 at 14:32
Teemac, Spoiler: [spoiler] Try jumping across from the air mages tower. there's a guard standing up there, the window is right above him.[/spoiler]
Zwolf on 21/8/2005 at 14:35
OK, I'm stuck. In jeni's new house, the door in the lower bedroom. Not the "back door" with the balcony, the metal one. Can't find the key, or switch.
teemac on 21/8/2005 at 15:05
Zwolf - thanks for the hint about the window - I passed it a dozen times - was looking for a plain glass one and not a painted one.
Your problem with the metal door :
[SPOILER]In that bedroom - above the bed is a high window with curtains - hidden switch in top right corner under edge of frame which opens a panel beside that bedrooms light switch - key found.[/SPOILER].
Great level - going to play it again very soon - it's 1am now and time for some sleep.