Brian The Dog on 31/1/2012 at 20:45
Seems like the re-release hasn't fixed the DirextX 7 issues, although the multi-core issue seems to be fixed. I can't believe GOG didn't find this in pre-release testing, the DirectX7 problems are evident for most nvidia and ATI users :erg: Anyway, I'm downloading a copy to check.
lost_soul on 31/1/2012 at 21:32
To their credit, as I said on the Thief forum, it isn't as though there is an army of coders around familiar with DirectX 6/7 anymore. Technically I think Thief 1 was a DX6 game and T2 was DX7. If they had done the right thing and released the code, someone would have ported it to OpenGL long ago.
Brian The Dog on 31/1/2012 at 21:47
Yeah, I appreciate that fact. It just seems a bit sneaky to say that they're Win7 compatible - whilst technically this is true, they're not modern-day-graphics-cards compatible.
Edit - They've clearly done something to make the DirectX calls handled better, my installation to a blank directory works fine without DDFix, first time for me! My nvidia 9800GT on WinXP x64 seems fine, at least.
Al_B on 31/1/2012 at 22:11
Quote Posted by lost_soul
To their credit, as I said on the Thief forum, it isn't as though there is an army of coders around familiar with DirectX 6/7 anymore.
There are probably far more around than you realise - even if they don't create new projects for that version of DirectX. Some things have changed between those versions of the SDK and DirectX 9 but nothing that someone's whose job it is to port it to a more recent version of DirectX couldn't manage in a reasonably short amount of time.
Jason Moyer on 31/1/2012 at 22:27
The description makes it sound like it includes both Thief 1 and Thief Gold. Is this true? I made the mistake of tossing my Thief 1 disc back when Gold came out and I wouldn't mind having the original game again.
sNeaksieGarrett on 1/2/2012 at 03:29
Hmm, yeah the wording on that is weird but I think it's just Gold. Someone please confirm or deny this.
Seems to me like what they were implying was that it was dark project with the gold version as a patch included. (That is, it's dark project but they have a special "gold" patch that makes it thief gold.) Which makes no sense, they should have said that it was the gold edition of dark project.
lost_soul on 1/2/2012 at 05:48
Given that there was never a patch to begin with to go from T1 to TGold, this never crossed my mind. Are there any other reasons to prefer T1 over TGold besides being able to complete RTC by "cheating"?
june gloom on 1/2/2012 at 06:14
Well some people are raw 'cuz they replaced the craymen in the Lost City with mages on an exploratory trip.
Renzatic on 1/2/2012 at 06:37
Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett
Hmm, yeah the wording on that is weird but I think it's just Gold. Someone please confirm or deny this.
Seems to me like what they were implying was that it was dark project with the gold version as a patch included. (That is, it's dark project but they have a special "gold" patch that makes it thief gold.) Which makes no sense, they should have said that it was the gold edition of dark project.
I'll probably buy it this weekend. But to me, it sounds exactly like what they did with Gothic II/Gothic II Gold, which is include the original game for those who want to play it unaltered, but allow you to update to the gold version through the installer.
sNeaksieGarrett on 1/2/2012 at 16:15
Hmm, so you're saying it'd be like they have both versions in one installer and you'd choose which one to install? Do let me know what you find out.
