Help Please. - by Mahoney
Mahoney on 26/8/2006 at 06:49
I've put Thief 3 on my new computer but for some reason it won't go to the title menu screen. Whenever I press escape from the rooftop cinematic, it will show the screen but will flick back to the beginning of the cinematic. Also I can't go into XP. Any ideas?
KingAl on 26/8/2006 at 07:17
Have you got a dual core/Hyper-threading machine? If so, you need to create a .bat file which tells the program to run in single-core mode (see the guide here: (
http://www16.brinkster.com/salvage/thief/darkengine.htm), and replace the thief.exe references with t3.exe and t3main.exe).
Do try to check the sticky threads at the top of the forum before posting.
Mahoney on 26/8/2006 at 07:42
Yeah sorry buddy will do in future.
I have a 4.2 GHZ dual Core, AMD athlon 64 X2, 2.0 GB ram, GeForce 7950 GX2. Does this affect the performance? Will do as you say.
KingAl on 26/8/2006 at 11:58
With that setup I'd have no worries about affecting performance - it'll rocket along beautifully. There's also 'John P's cumulative texture pack' (from here: (
www.graphics-by-john-p.com/textures/Thief-DS/index.shtml)) that you can use to improve the graphics.
Mahoney on 26/8/2006 at 13:32
Thanks. I thought the thing may run the game too quickly or something thus causing all the problems? I have the texture pack from my old computer. It ran perfectly well on that one.
Mahoney on 26/8/2006 at 19:13
Is this only for the games stated in that link?
KingAl on 27/8/2006 at 01:27
It'll work for any games that can't run on dual core - I've used it to fix Far Cry in the past, for example.
Mahoney on 27/8/2006 at 07:28
I changed the stuff to thief 3 in the notepad to bat file, but it's not working. Can you tell me what I put in it?
KingAl on 27/8/2006 at 10:32
Did you do it for both .exe files, and run it from the folder in which they are contained?
