Nightwalker on 17/12/2014 at 15:40
Good idea, Terry! Thanks! :)
gnartsch on 17/12/2014 at 18:28
Nice idea!
I have a few questions, though:
I would have imagined to have all obsolete files to be removed, which only cause trouble, since the regular settings and tweaks in the players Thief installation itself are ignored.
That makes it impossible to really use that FM like any other FM, since one has to do the tweaking all over again.
One thing you did in order to compensate for that was to add EP.crf?
I would say: drop all this and T2X will really work just like any other FM:
Quote:
darkinst.cfg
cam.cfg
cam_ext.cfg
dark.cfg
EP.crf (wasn't included by the T2X team anyway)
dark.bnd
user.bnd
user.cfg
motiondb.bin (identical with original thief anyway)
LGVID.AX
codec\
SAVES\
And you are already set !
And the players settings (video, key-bindings, ...) and mods will work as for any other mission and do not need to be adjusted just in order to play T2X.
But please keep t2x.exe as a sweet memory, although it doesn't work anyway. ;)
Stefan_Key on 19/12/2014 at 21:34
If I understand well, you mean to unzip the file and delete all the files you mention and zip it again and only then play it as a regular FM ?
GUFF on 20/12/2014 at 00:28
You may be able to just delete the offending files from the archive itself with modern file compression tools, but yes the idea is to run it as a FM (this is what it is, after all) because of the fact that the t2x.exe launcher doesn't work on modern systems. Using FMsel is preferred as well as it will use NewDark's loading capabilities to try to make sure there are as few file conflicts as possible.
gnartsch on 20/12/2014 at 10:34
Quote Posted by Stefan_Key
If I understand well, you mean to unzip the file and delete all the files you mention and zip it again and only then play it as a regular FM ?
Right, you can open the ZIP with any reasonable program and just delete the files and folders I mentioned.
And then install the stripped down version.
T2X required it's own config files, because it used to be installed in a different folder than your Thief folder.
Now that T2X is available as a regular mission ZIP, there is absolutely no reason to have them around anymore and to cause hazzle.
With these files present, one has to do all the configuration and tweaking all over again.
They contain nothing that would be special for T2X and can be safely removed.
Ricebug on 20/12/2014 at 13:43
I'll do what you suggest, since it makes perfect sense. I didn't add the EP.crf, my copy already came with it. But hey! Deleting that will certainly reduce the file size.
My DSL upload speed is horrible, thanks to everyone in the apartment building watching YouTube videos and NetFlix (we're on a DSL trunk). And T2X is a huge freaking file. Gimme a day or so.
Uh-oh... I think my wife is getting out of bed. And yes! She's checking YouTube!!!
nickie on 20/12/2014 at 14:19
I linked this in the Links thread some time ago. If you're removing the EP, could you let me know if I need to change the link.
Ricebug on 20/12/2014 at 15:35
OK. It's fixed. Unnecessary files removed. Same link.
Stefan_Key on 20/12/2014 at 17:41
Thanks for your work, guys! :D
fxdwg on 20/12/2014 at 17:49
Quote Posted by Stefan_Key
Thanks for your work, guys! :D
I agree, thanks for improving on the improvement. We will all benefit!