Artyom on 9/2/2012 at 15:29
Hi everyone!! First of all congratulations for this awesome site!!!
You helped me a lot with the ddfix an FAQs for the thief series, that I recently adquired in gog. (And escuse me for my bad english it isn't my native language)
I manage to run perfectly both Thief gold and Thief 2 in windows 7 but I have a little problem with Thief gold controls... I can't use the left control key :( I allways use this key for crouching in videogames but in thief doesn't work. I go to the key bindings and set the action of crouching in the left control key... but it doesn´t work :confused: What can i do?, is there something i can try to make it work?
The funny thing is that I tried to set it with Thief 2 and it actually works... so I don't know what can it be :(
I hope you can help me :)
jtr7 on 9/2/2012 at 21:15
It's a known problem, mentioned just over here:
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138289)
The current solution isn't bug-free, unfortunately.
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
It seems impossible (on my Win7 system anyway) to map the Control key to crouch from the key config screen. Attempting to do so maps LCTRL, RCTRL, and CTRL all to the same action, which Thief apparently hates and just ignores.
I had to manually dig into the BND file and map crouching to LCTRL only, which works, but seems glitchy in that it sometimes takes a second tap to register.The bind files that Thief creates are significantly different from the included ones, defining a lot more binds. Lots of DromEd stuff in there.
The included binds aren't very consistent with each other at all. Some of them map actions to LCTRL, RCTRL, etc, some just to CTRL. Some include random DromEd commands, some don't. They don't even all specify the same mouse sensitivity. It's all quite a mess.
wonderfield on 9/2/2012 at 21:55
I imagine it would be possible to reassign the Ctrl key to some other key (say, X) with a keyboard mapping app prior to starting the game. This way, you could specify within Thief that X will be bound to hold crouch and still utilize Ctrl to perform the action.
It's ugly, but it's one potential approach to solving the problem.
