Berty on 22/4/2006 at 13:28
I've just installed Thief: the deadly shadows on my PC but I can't launch it - i click .exe file and nothing happens, and a in a second my PC stops to react on my actions - the only way to reanimate it is to reboot with reset key.
:(
My system is windows XP SP 2, DirectX 9c, P-IV 2400, 512mB RAM, nVidia GeForce 5700fx.
Please could you help me, and sorry for my poor English
Domarius on 23/4/2006 at 04:14
Sounds pretty bad. How long ago did you re-install your system?
Berty on 23/4/2006 at 12:31
Domarius
Maybe, last auyumn?
To tell the truth, i hate to reinstall system - so much programs to reinstal with windows itself...
But I've fixed the problem - it was, actually, NOD32 (the game was loading SO slow, that I thought it didn't load at all)
:)
Domarius on 24/4/2006 at 13:34
Ugh, I remember making that same diagnosis on someone else's system. You know those virus scanners scan ever single file the system asks for? Major performance impact.
Myself, I've got an image of my system drive, so even if I got a virus, I just have to re-image, problem solved. So I don't run any virus scanners.
Berty on 24/4/2006 at 18:12
An interesting solution ) but where do yo keep it? Another HDD? My system drive is more then 20Gb...
Actualy, NOD32 is the best anti-virus soft i ever used... and Thief3 is the only programm conflitcts with nod32 resednt modules...
Even DOOM3 runs very quick with it on my rather old machine
Soul Shaker on 25/4/2006 at 01:28
Just use a nice free one like avg...
Doesn't scan every damn file and works!
But, isntead of an image, learn how many times system restore will save your arse...Really, it's so far saved me for 4 viruses within the space of about 5 months. And the viruses are those really, really, REALLY annoying ones that give you some stupid little bubble thing telling you that you're infected every 2 seconds...and it tricks your scanner...and sends you on a wild goose chase to eliminate a virus you don't have.
That was one virus that shows how GUI(some may understand what i mean) XP is...
Domarius on 26/4/2006 at 02:38
I have a big hdd partitioned so that there is a smaller 5gig drive. This is my system drive C: that I make an image of. I keep the image on the other partition, D:
I install apps to D:, and when I make an image of C:, any registry settings of installed programs are kept in the image, so when I restore the image to C:, everything comes together the way it was before, since D: is left untouched.
