Getting Thief 2 to work on Windows 7

Sycamoyr on 4/2/2012 at 21:21

Hello, I am using Windows 7 Home premium 32-bit. I have installed Thief 2 on my desktop with the game cd (from Sold Out). It installed, ran the movies and started the first mission, yet it froze after playing for a minute or two. Most of the time it froze when a sound other than the ambient sound was playing. The freeze stops gameplay, but will continue to play the sound clip until it is done. It does not crash to the desktop, so I have to CTRL+Alt+Del to get it to quit.
I found (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125853&page=7) this forum topic when searching on google and saw this person's problem:

Quote Posted by H.P

Hey all!
I got a bad problem with T2 on windows 7 64-bit. When full installed, it crashes to desktop after playing a while.

It seemed somewhat similar to my problem, so I followed the directions to install DDFix. I installed DDFix-1.5.11.zip and DDFix-Thief2.zip
I tried to play the game, but it refused to start it up this time, displaying the message
Invalid resolution in cam.cfg
Any advice? Please let me know if you need more information.

EvaUnit02 on 5/2/2012 at 17:38

Sounds like you haven't patched the game's EXE to force it to use only one core of your multi-core CPU (single affinity). That's usually why Dark Engine games crash within a short time of loading a mission.

I recommend just doing a fresh install and applying the latest beta of (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131106&p=1965795#post1965795) Tafferpatcher upon it. It take most headaches out of the equation.

ffox on 5/2/2012 at 19:04

Even better - let Tafferpatcher do the installation.

Sycamoyr on 6/2/2012 at 01:09

Thanks for responding.:D I uninstalled the game and even deleted the thief 2 folder for good measure. I'm waiting for the tafferpatcher to download and will keep you posted as to whether or not I got it to work.

Sycamoyr on 6/2/2012 at 04:49

Nothing but problems so far.
I followed the directions to install, but when I got to the point where I needed to designate where the source information was coming from, I got several error messages.
At first I selected the thief2 folder on the cd:

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I got these two messages:

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When I tried the cd as a source and when I tried copying and pasting the entire cd contents into my games folder, I got this message:

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Would it be possible to install Thief 2 before installing the tafferpatcher? It's probably not finding what it's looking for because the disk is from Sold Out, it's a two sided Thief 1 & 2 Two-in-one disk.

EvaUnit02 on 6/2/2012 at 05:19

Quote Posted by Sycamoyr

Would it be possible to install Thief 2 before installing the tafferpatcher? It's probably not finding what it's looking for because the disk is from Sold Out, it's a two sided Thief 1 & 2 Two-in-one disk.

Yes. I recommended that you do that in the first place.

Sycamoyr on 7/2/2012 at 20:55

I installed Thief 2 and then the Tafferpatcher....
Wow, it works perfectly! I could cry for the beauty of it. The game looks amazing and I've never seen it run so smoothly! Thank you so very much for your help:cheeky:

Sycamoyr on 8/2/2012 at 22:36

Is there a Tafferpatcher for Thief 1? Or for Thief Gold?
I have the same problem with freezing with Thief 1 as I did with Thief 2.