ThiefinRain on 1/2/2011 at 14:28
I was away from it for a couple of years as I dreaded installing Thief on new machines and finding I had to tweak a lot to get it working.
I bought Thief The Complete Collection recently and installed it on my latest hardware, i7 965, windows 7 64-bit, nvidia GTX 580. And what a nice surprise it was that all 3 games played perfectly :D, without any tweaks whatsoever. I only had to hunt for and install Creative Alchemy for win 7 to get EAX back. Bingo!!
The first mission I played and finished was The Burrick's Head Inn and what a lovely and classy way of easing back into Thief. I enjoyed it so much that I played it again on Expert.
I take this opportunity to thank Yandros, the highly-talented author of the fm, potterr who gave us GarrettLoader, and of course ttlg and its members for keeping this awesome game alive and fresh!
Now going to download Rocksbourg 3!
Happy taffing..
lost_soul on 1/2/2011 at 18:14
Welcome back! I've been playing Thief since the demo came out. I always keep all of my games installed, because hard drives have gotten so big that they can hold every game I've ever played in my life and then some. I remember having a 6.4 GB drive and having to pick which games to have installed at a given time.
voodoo47 on 1/2/2011 at 19:21
hmmm,no graphics problems on brand new hardware,and without ddfix? no offense,but I find that hard to believe.
jtr7 on 2/2/2011 at 00:46
Several people have claimed such. There seems to be a full bell curve of people who never get anything Thiefy working, and people who don't have any troubles at all, and most in between who have to apply some tweak or fix.
theBlackman on 2/2/2011 at 01:09
Quote Posted by jtr7
Several people have claimed such. There seems to be a full bell curve of people who never get anything Thiefy working, and people who don't have any troubles at all, and most in between who have to apply some tweak or fix.
I'm one of the lucky ones I guess. The Complete Collection installed on my W7 and XP pro machines with no tweaks, and run with no problem. This includes running FMs.
How-some-ever, I am not using a "wide screen" monitor. So no DDFIX or other tweaks, except Garrettloader and Darkloader.
jtr7 on 2/2/2011 at 01:40
And honestly, I've come across more trouble-free claims in the last two years than ever, so it's nice to know something's been changed somewhere to increase compatibility.
Bluegrime on 2/2/2011 at 01:42
Quote Posted by voodoo47
hmmm,no graphics problems on brand new hardware,and without ddfix? no offense,but I find that hard to believe.
Why? I've never had a problem getting a Dark Engine game to run properly on any of my computers. I have no idea what sorts out the people that have problems and don't but I assume its luck.
voodoo47 on 2/2/2011 at 09:06
well,the multicore/hyperthreading incompatibility should be the issue here,if nothing else-unless the complete collection is patched to run on a single core right out of the box,and I have never seen that before (although we do have a report or two of dark engine games running without a hitch on the latest intel cpus,maybe I will have a look at this).
ThiefinRain on 2/2/2011 at 12:05
Well I myself was equally surprised!
By the way when I installed GarrettLoader, it recommended that only one CPU should be used and asked whether I wanted that. I said yes and it did it itself.
One more thing: I normally use an LCD for other computer work and games but I keep an ancient CRT monitor specifically for Thieving, so I am using the latter.
Good to see some folks from way back then still around here!
jermi on 2/2/2011 at 17:57
With the exception of the multicore bug, Thief worked for me also out-of-the-box on win7 64-bit. Without fog, of course.
Not that there has been any point in playing Thief on a 16-bit screen since ... umm 2009(?)
