talker10 on 19/1/2007 at 12:37
Hello,
I have just got the Thief 2 : The metal age after I finished Thief : Deadly shadows. At first, i got the Error: "Direct 3D device driver does not accurately report texture memory usage" and I was very upset when your faq didnt helped me (change the nvidia drivers to 8 or below virsions).
I have found a solution that worked for me (I own a nvidia geforce 6800 but I am sure it will work for others):
At first, patch the game for the newest virsion. After installing the patch, you will need to edit the user.cfg file in the Thief 2 folder on the hard drive. Open the user.cfg file with notepad, and remove the ; (semicolon) from the beginning of the line that says "safe_texture_manager " This change will become active when the file is saved.
I found it here : (
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-003810.htm)
I now can play the game (yay !), hope I helped for some of you that wondered how to fix it. Good day.
edit : oops i am sorry, i didnt read the whole explenetion on how to fix it (you wrote that the drivers fix is the only solution for nvidia, apear not to be true), sorry :[
