Mac the Knave on 5/4/2007 at 22:03
Alas, my old computer has gone to heaven. I built a new one. It has a Athlon 3200 64 processor (it is not dual core) and a PCI express NVidia 9750 GT graphics card. Pretty hot graphics card, but useless to me since it won't play Thief.
I have read there are problems with some dual core processors and thief, but I don't THINK that applies to just 64 processors, but I could be wrong.
Here is what happens: Thief boots to the intro screen but goes blank when you try to play.
Are there graphics cards anyone would recommends? I want to get one with 512 memory. Please respond, headed to Fry's in an hour with a mission ... must reunite with thievery.
Thanks in advance.
dbrilliant on 6/4/2007 at 03:43
There are problems with programs that are trying to run on dual-core chipsets. There are tricks for this but cannot remember where I found them. Try altavista.com just in case this may have a solution to your problem. As far as you video card is concerned NICE!!!!!!!! ATI is the only other way to go, and for the money anything else either has issues or compatibility problems.:weird: I seem to be having a few problems as well, of course with Windows Vista and getting SB Live 5.1 to work and for windows to find the card. I have dual-booted OS's on my system Vista & XP/SP2. Thief Deadly Shadows gets to the second disk whenever I have SP 2 installed then the system locks up. I've tried disabling the firewall and anti-virus software as well.
Beleg Cúthalion on 6/4/2007 at 17:43
Oh, that is interesting. Someone in the German forum has a similar problem: Pentium 4, Geforce 7600andsomethinglikethat...and when starting the game it crashes with the usual "...has detected an error" message. The graphic card test by TDS says "no pixel shader supported" while the card has version 3.0. I almost think there are two different problems here, but maybe someone could help here, too.
