T2 FM "Calendra's Legacy" official release (April 1st, 2002)

Avalon on 27/6/2004 at 15:48

Quote Posted by epithumia

The mission was released as Purah wanted it released. I will not accept any modified versions at thiefmissions.com.

You can't complain that size is preventing people from getting the mission when there are plenty of people willing to put it on a CD and mail it out for free.

This is true. However, that's more than a small hassle for many, and I know that more than a few Thief fans are weary about giving their address to folks on the intarweb.

Free CDs are just one of many ways one can explain away what really just amounts to gross irresponsibility, and this is what pisses off most of us more-responsible types who literally spend hours upon hours upon days upon weeks upon months trying to think of legit ways to truly impress the FM-players instead of these cheap tricks. Well, one of many things that pisses us off because it's easy to get us going.

And yeah, I'd probably be pissed off if somebody messed with my mission archives and tried to resubmit them, too, which is why I don't - not my business. Though, I'd feel like a total jerk if I found out I had released a 300 meg behemoth that could very, very easily have been less than half of that size; I'd fix it and resubmit it myself. Hint, hint. Oh wait, I don't remember if Purah still visits these parts - did we piss him off like we did with CC when not everyone jumped to give his mission the 'Gold Hammer'? :p

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Domarius on 28/6/2004 at 00:42

I totally agree with Avalon here.
And I would have been in total disbeleif if I had downloaded a, say 75mb or 120mb Calendra's Legacy, and played it.
I would like to suggest cutting down the mission size to Purah himself.

Jysala on 8/7/2004 at 22:30

I found that the only way to save a FM (In this case CL), you have to run the Thief.exe icon. Well for whatever reason I am only able to play CL from within game mode of DromEd.

I try to play it through the T2 icon, and it doesn't work. It's like the game is all messed up. This is the only FM so far, that has done this to me. And being that this is a big FM, I virtually have to start over every single time I want to play. (Or end up leaving my computer on all the time until it is finished.)

Can someone help me to fix this? I should mention that this is not a patched version of T2, (to my knowledge). Since I am not able to patch it. (I get an error that says, "Cannot determine installation directory"

Any help?
Thanks :)

theBlackman on 8/7/2004 at 22:45

Delete the desktop icon. OPEN the THIEF folder, scroll to the EXE file, right click, and SEND TO DESKTOP.

Try that. This will put a new shortcut on the DESKTOP that points directly to your THIEF installation.

As to the Can't find, did you change the Install or DARKINST config files to run w/o the CD?

Jysala on 8/7/2004 at 22:48

Quote Posted by theBlackman

Delete the desktop icon. OPEN the THIEF folder, scroll to the EXE file, right click, and SEND TO DESKTOP.

As to the Can't find, did you change the Install or DARKINST config files to run w/o the CD?

That is the icon on the desktop. It came directly from there.

I'm not sure. I did put in a no-cd patch though. Could this of caused it to not work? (If so, I'll do a clean install)

Thanks

theBlackman on 9/7/2004 at 16:04

Quote Posted by Jysala

That is the icon on the desktop. It came directly from there.

I'm not sure. I did put in a no-cd patch though. Could this of caused it to not work? (If so, I'll do a clean install)

Thanks

The Icon was put there when the game installed. If your registry has changed due to tweaks, then that one may not work (as you say it has not been).

So if you manually delete the old one, and then use the SEND TO DESKTOP to make a NEW one, it should allow you to start the game from the desktop instead of by using the EXE, as you say you now have to.

Geacid on 21/9/2004 at 21:58

I ve read your solutions Zacharias and Nightwalker about the question of Lord Chaos which concerns the ''bug'' in objectives marked i have the same problem even with the patched version (1.18) of Thief II any ideas :rolleyes:

klatremus on 21/9/2004 at 23:38

I don't think anyone has a simply and obvious solution to this. Sorry! :tsktsk:
Been in the same situation myself and it only got fixed after reinstalling Windows (for some other reason of course).

Or was it that I was using Win98 at the time...can't recall exactly.
Hang in there! :)

- Klatremus
NORWAY

Geacid on 22/9/2004 at 03:32

Thank you Klatremus for your essential help. I cant in fact reinstall windows for this reason but i appreciate the fact that you respond me and help me. Good taffing and have a nice day

Low Moral Fiber on 9/12/2004 at 21:37

Well, while this is topped....

I had a blast playing Calendra's Cistern, and just last night I put this on my computer. But even at 800x600 resolution, it's incredibly choppy. I really want to play this, as I've heard nothing but rave-type reviews for it.

I meet the requirements, so I'm not sure what's wrong.

P3 933 Mhz
GeForce 3
512 MB RAM

I'm playing it through DarkLoader.

Oddly enough, since I've played it, everything on my computer is taking forever to open. I've defragged, rebooted, the works, but it's all so damn slow. Not sure what to do, as I'm not the most computer illiterate person.

Ah well, if anyone can think of something off the top of their head, it'd be much appreciated.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and apparently there's supposed to be cutscenes. I've started the first mission, and haven't seen any. The cutscenes work fine for the main Thief 2 campaign.