Please Help Me. :( - by Eother
Eother on 2/12/2006 at 09:44
Hi. I'm Eother. I have an al-uh...wait. Let me try again.
Thief: The Dark Project was the first real computer game I ever played, and is still my favorite to this day (I first played it in 2000ish). Recently, I was surfing the net, and came across some stuff about Thief. This inspired me to reinstall the game, and play it.
Now, here is my problem. The game installs just fine. The menu screen is just fine. Everything until a level attempts to actually load is just fine. Once attempting to load the level, I got the texture load error, as this guy described.
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109647)
Well, I did what doogle did in that thread. He seemed to be in the same boat as I. However, when the Windows error box popped up, I checked the technical report. It said this file had an error.
C:\DOCUME~1\Elijah\LOCALS~1\Temp\8296_appcompat.txt
I don't know if that will help. By the way, Elijah is my name up there...no, I'm not worried about being stalked because I gave out my name. :)
Now, the above thread was locked because "support is not given for warez versions of this game". It was locked by "David". Last Sunday, I messaged him asking for help, as well as the guy who started the thread ("Rock8man") asking to see if they knew how to fix it. I haven't received a reply yet, so I did this. Anyhow, to be safe: my version of the game is perfectly legal. I bought it at Gamestop, at a mall near my teeny town. So, it isn't a warez or whatever.
Here are my system specifications: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, 1.0 gigs of ram, and Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS video card.
So. I would love some help on this. Thanks a lot (by the way, if this is in the wrong place, go ahead and move it...I just put it here so more people would see it. After all, if you are in the tech section, it means you have a problem and you can't fix mine) :).
CD Set on 2/12/2006 at 10:13
Well, I don't know too much about the texture load error, but your Dual Core Processor might be causing you trouble.
This can be fixed by right clicking the process "Thief" (in the task manager, under "processes") and then select the bottom most option (I don't know what it says on an English computer, but something along the lines of "assign alotment of processor"). Then uncheck one of the boxes there (CPU 1 or CPU 0). You might have to try unchecking a different box if this doesn't work (e.g CPU 0 instead of CPU 1).
Also, you could try running the game in win95/98 compability mode.
I don't know if this helps, but unfortunately these are all the tips I have.
/CD Set
Martin Karne on 2/12/2006 at 20:01
If you can run your card with this drivers 84.21, maybe you can run it, maybe not.
noah on 5/12/2006 at 02:12
Thanks for this...I too was bummed to find the exactly pertaining thread to the problem recently locked for other reasons.
I have been trying to get Thief: Gold to work with XP/93.71 nVidia drivers (7800 GS AGP) to no avail. The solution to enable safe_texture_manager for T2 does work and disabling one of the hyperthreaded processors improves stability for that game.
However, I can't seem to get ThiefG to work past the main menu, with or without the patch linked in the technical FAQ. I've tried various combinations of compatibility modes/patch vs. original .exe/processor affinity with no luck.
I realize that rolling back to previous drivers might be a solution, but as I use this machine for many other (read: current) games, this is ultimately not an ideal solution.
Any insight, tips, tricks would be welcome. Just trying to keep hope alive. :cool:
th|3f on 5/12/2006 at 02:21
Garrett sure does hate those dual core processors.
Jargang on 5/12/2006 at 14:32
I need some help with this too.
I have tryed all of the things that is posted here, exept with the new EXE files, I have downloaded them, and when I try to open one of them, it say that it have encunterd a problem and must exit, so I can't try an install with the new EXE. anyone know what the problem might be? Why it does that?
Eother on 6/12/2006 at 09:17
Heh. Kinda weird that, when I bought a new computer, I couldn't play my favorite game anymore. :/
If anybody smart who CAN fix it but is too lazy, feel free to direct me to a forum/person/God who isn't lazy. Or just stop being lazy, that would be great too. :)
Martin Karne on 6/12/2006 at 12:40
If you started it with win98/ME compatibility, and used safe_texture_mode in user.cfg and used the hacked .exe, then if you don't check different video drivers, you will have to wait for a next hack.
noah on 6/12/2006 at 15:28
I don't think the "safe_texture_manager" config file addition works for Thief: Gold.
I actually have 2 versions of ThiefG - the first being the original boxed copy and the second being the recent EB re-release. The latter is the version currently on my machine.
On the off chance the builds are different, I'll try re-installing from the original discs to see if the "patched" .exe works with that version.
It's a pity there are so many rendering issues with nVidia cards - low res sky and no stars (for Thief II), dithering etc.
Rock8man on 12/12/2006 at 17:37
Greetings. Sorry it took a while for me to reply, but I've been busy over the last month playing Neverwinter Nights 2.
Ok, so I realize that in the original post that started this thread, there's a link to the thread that I started, but there's no resolution in that thread.
That's because I posted my solution in another thread that was simultaneously active while mine was active.
Here's the other thread:
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1514665)
Now, I encourage you to follow that whole thread, and see what the thought process was, but here's what I finally posted in that thread about what worked for me:
Quote Posted by "Rock8man"
Thanks Dan. I asked about a similar problem in a different thread, and it worked for me.
Here's what I did.
1) Went back to old 84.21 drivers.
2) Game still didn't run properly.
3) Reinstalled the game using the instructions in the FAQ on this forum.
4) Instead of running the Thief Gold Direct3D fix this time, I typed in safe_texture_manager instead in the user.cfg file
5) Since I had already installed the Indeo drivers last time, I didn't have to mess with them this time to get the movies to run.
6) Unlike last time when the game only ran when I went to compatibility mode in Win98, this time I left compatibility mode alone
7) I ran the solution that is listed in the FAQ for running only one of my CPUs.
8) I ran the game and it worked.
Unfortunately, the game has crashed for me sometimes, freezing my whole system visually, but I can still hear sounds. I can't alt-TAB or use Ctrl-Alt-Del. But oh well, the crashing in Thief Gold seems to be intermittent, so I have no idea what it could be, and its not listed in the FAQ.
I guess I'll save frequently. Thanks again for the help everyone. TTLG community rocks! You guys are the best. So many years after the game's release and you guys are still over here helping people out, making sure the games run on newer computers. Amazing.
By contrast, Alien Vs Predator refuses to run on newer Nvidia cards, and the one or two people that I found on message boards still playing that game seem to think the only solution is to find an old computer to run it on.
As you can see, the key things that I did to make it work was to install older nVidia drivers, and to reinstall the game. But the other details might be important too, which is why I listed everything in such detail.
Let me know if it works out for you. Sorry again for the delay in replying.
