Savar on 20/10/2010 at 11:28

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Urumo
You must to jump off the stairs.

Urumo on 20/10/2010 at 15:58

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Hello again,

finally made that jump off the ladder to find the Glyph letter. This was very difficult for me. But now: where is Eric's Hammer? Is it also at Eric's place? Can't find it. Help please.

Thanks and greetings
Urumo

mabsy on 20/10/2010 at 18:01

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Thanks Savar, but here I reveal the depths of my ignorance - how do I start the game without GL? Is there an .exe file in the zip file?

mabsy on 20/10/2010 at 21:21

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:joke: Thanks gnartsch, I've already tried some of the above, but I'll check the debug.log file and if not - try and find out how to play this mission without using GL.

Tiens on 22/10/2010 at 05:53

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You can skip GarrettLoader. Steps in detail:

1) uninstall the game and delete both its folders (with the game and with saves). Also you may check the register for mistakes.

2) install TDS again, but the pass to it should have NO SPACES (for example, "D:\GAMES\Thief3\")

3) patch the game to version 1.1 (if you need it, of case). The patch is here (thanks to The Dark Fate): (http://darkfate.ru/?show=files%2Fpatches%2Fthief3%2Ftds_patch_1.1.rar)

4) replace the exe-files with files from here (thanks to The Dark Fate): (http://darkfate.ru/?show=files%2Ffan-missions%2Fneedful_stuff%2Ft3main.exe_and_t3.exe.7z)

5) run the game, load the inn and make a save.

6) unpack the mission strait into the game's folder and add the content of the file "user_patch.ini" into the file "user.ini" manually (it's in the main folder).

7) start the game by pressing the exe-file named "t3.exe" (it is into ...\System subfolder).


If the game still doesn't launch (sometimes it happens with Win7 and Vista), do the following:

a) download this launcher from (http://darkfate.ru/?show=files/editors/t3ed/tools/thief3launcher.zip)
Un-pack the zip-file and run the Thief3Launcher.exe

b) in the row for "Thief 3 Path:" show the pass to your game's folder. And in the row for "Gamesys:" (if the launcher didn't find it already) show the pass to subfolder System (in the game's main folder), file named "T3Gamesys.t3u"

c) press the "Activate Thief 3", then - "Launch Thief 3". Usually, you don't need to run the launcher any more. But if pressing "t3.exe" still doesn't works, you may always run the game from the launcher by pressing "Launch Thief 3".


ADDED LATER:

Forgot to say! Self-evident advantage of this method is avoiding many types of bugs. But this method has it's weak point too: you'll have to re-install TDS every time for installing next fan-mission. I mean, GarrettLoader is created to take care about this problem without bothering you. But by skipping GL you'll have to think about such things by yourself. It's easy: all you need to do is simply to repeat actions - all the steps from number 1 to 7 once again.