Lyril on 19/2/2008 at 04:20
I hope this is the right forum but here goes........
I've been having great difficulty opening any readables for a while, but it's got much worse now. If I can open any of them (and it takes lots of attempts) I get at most a second to read.
Which isn't long enough.
I'm playing on a reconditioned Dell, W98, only used for Thief, and running all through Darkloader 4.3. I reinstalled everything a couple of months ago but no improvement. The one-second reading-time is new.
Please, does anyone have any suggestions? Diaries, scrolls, crumpled notes, even the Hammer/Mech doctrines are just so important, not just as clues but essential for atmosphere.
A myriad of thanks for any suggestions!
Yandros on 19/2/2008 at 04:27
I assume you're fully patched? I've never heard of this problem before.
jtr7 on 19/2/2008 at 04:30
Yet another odd error. This is happening more than a couple times a week, now. More details, if you can think of any, please. The fact that it's been growing worse over time is the only clue, so far.
Lyril on 19/2/2008 at 04:31
yes, fully patched. It is the same for TG and TMA, as well as all FMs (I forgot to mention that). I'm not playing T3
BrokenArts on 19/2/2008 at 04:53
:weird::weird:
Telliamed on 19/2/2008 at 06:01
What happens if you set your game resolution to 640x480.
When you frob a button, do you hear a double-click?
Lyril on 19/2/2008 at 09:25
Well it just got worse. Darkloader now just gives me an error message for all TG and T2 fms and oms.
So assuming something had self-destructed I tried to uninstall both games. Add/Remove programmes seemed to be working and said it had removed both, but they are both still there, in the same bloody place. Except that add/remove now can't find them.
I have just renamed both folders and reinstalled TG where it was before. It seems to be working better, even being able to read a scroll, except that there is only a black screen instead of the 'death' screen, so I can't get back into it without restarting the computer. This is ok, I can live with that (just staying alive works!).
I haven't tried reinstalling T2 yet. I think I need to find out how to remove the existing ones. They were both configured for no-cd, so the uninstall command on the cd won't work either.
How can I remove the earlier versions? I just hate going through all this rigmarole whenever Thief implodes, though after so many years I ought to be better at it.
Yandros on 19/2/2008 at 17:51
Just deleting the folders should work.
nickie on 19/2/2008 at 19:00
I'd also suggest running something like RegCleaner or CCleaner in case there are any stray registry entries mucking things up. Had a similar problem with Darkloader recently and although I removed through Add/Remove, I forgot to do a search for Darkloader and manually delete leftovers before reinstalling.
Yandros on 19/2/2008 at 19:48
Good point, nickie. While Thief itself doesn't store anything in the registry, I hadn't thought about Darkloader. I wasn't aware it did either, but sounds like you are. :)
