Lady Taffer on 3/8/2008 at 07:52
Thanks!. . .of course now I feel even more stupid because I can't find what the switch opens.
Anyway, I managed to finish the game without whatever the secret was.
Kin on 3/8/2008 at 09:16
I have the same corrupted save problem. Downloaded the latest version of the mission and every time i save i can't reload. I use darkloader 4.3
My thief is patched to 1.18
Ok i think i found whats wrong and it has nothing to do with installation of thief2.
In darkloader setup on the options tab there is a "savegame compression level". I set it to "1" and now i can save and reload fine.
SinisterShadow on 3/8/2008 at 10:19
As long as you don't (un-)install the mission, DarkLoader doesn't do anything to your saved games. So if you play the mission without changing missions in between, DarkLoader won't be the problem.
But thanks for the info, maybe there is something wrong with the zip compression library DarkLoader is using.
potterr on 3/8/2008 at 11:08
If you want to try GarrettLoader its available here: (
http://www.potterdevelopments.org.uk/fm)
All your DarkLoader saves will work in it as well.
GL uses InfoZip as its zip compression DLL which is pretty much stable (it doesn't like square brackets in files names much though). Also info on the state of the next GL version is here (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122089)
I haven't seen any problems with DarkLoader zip compression myself, although increasing the compression to the maximum on any compression process will take much longer and is more prone to corruption.
For info: save games in DL and GL are only zipped up during the uninstall process of an FM and unzipped during the install process. So if you haven't changed FMs then its nothing to do with the FM loader itself, just the thief game (or the FM files themselves).
Kin on 3/8/2008 at 11:32
Quote Posted by SinisterShadow
As long as you don't (un-)install the mission, DarkLoader doesn't do anything to your saved games. So if you play the mission without changing missions in between, DarkLoader won't be the problem.
But thanks for the info, maybe there is something wrong with the zip compression library DarkLoader is using.
I haven't played other missions between but the save problem was there. Now after the compression tweak i have tried to uninstall or install other missions between and reinstall the mission, it loads and saves fine. It seems that it was a darkloader issue. I am glad i can continue playing the mission because it is awesome. Can hardly believe it's your first Turcaill!:thumb:
Kin on 3/8/2008 at 13:57
After about an hour playing i tried to quick save and reload. The game crashed and the save corrupted. After all i am not sure what's going on. Other fan missions din't cause that problem. Is it the mission? is it the installation? Do not know.
deathshadow on 3/8/2008 at 17:47
Ok, I FINALLY got it working with no slowdowns or crashes... I re-installed from scratch, repatched, added ddfix, and it ran ok...
I then installed T2X, NTEX and EP - still ok... Which should have been what I was at to begin with as the zip file I created for restoring should have been just that baseline.
Most likely some cruft from another fan mission must have been left behind causing my problems. I'm creating a new 'vanilla.zip' from this point so I can restore to baseline faster.
Kin on 6/8/2008 at 19:41
I also reinstalled everything from scratch (Thief, patch, ddfix, darkwidescreen) and after playng for about an hour (after alot sucssesfull saves) tried to save and corupted all my saves. Guess it is a bug and i can't finish the mission.:confused:
P.s. And also got that frame rate slow down
SinisterShadow on 7/8/2008 at 07:43
Thief corrupted all your saves at once, you say? :weird:
That's strange, because when you save a game, Thief should only touch that single game save and nothing else.
Please try the following: delete your game saves and start from scratch (again). This time, everytime you save your game, switch out (ALT-TAB) and make a backup copy of that saved game from the SAVES-Folder to some external media, like an external hard drive. If you've got no external media, copy the saves to another location of your internal harddrive (adjust the file name to prevent overwriting the other backups). When you notice the lag to be occuring again, save your game imediately and check if you're still able to load your other game saves. If so, continue playing until it stops working.
Now if you can't load the saved games located in your Thief saves folder anymore, make another backup of those saves, zip any saves you have backed up, put them on rapidshare and let me have a look at them. Make some notes to let me know which saves did work and which ones didn't, as well as which backup file contains the working version of a file (which one?) that you didn't overwrite but got corrupted while you saved into another save slot.
