passionne on 25/9/2005 at 07:48
Hello,
I have the same problem : the introduction movie keeps playing. And when I press the escape key, the movie begins again.
I solved that problem by reinstalling the game. But if the game freezes or crashes again, the same problem appears and I no longer can play it, because of the movie.
I tried to modify the .ini files but I did not manage to stop this loop. I assume that a registry key is the cause since the into movie always play as soon as I relaunch the game after a freeze or a crash. This key might be updated and deleted when deinstallling the game. I searched in the registry but I found nothing.
Or it may be caused by a hardware incompatibility : what is your configuration ? If 3 of us have a common component, it may be the cause.
My configuration :
DFI Lan Party nF4 SLI-D
AMD X2 4400+@3 Ghz
2 XFX 7800 GTX
2x512 MB OCZ PC4800
4x80 GB Hitachi SATA II
1x80 GB Seagate PATA
1x250 GB Maxtor PATA
Windows XP SP2
Thief version :1.1, no textures patchs
Dr.Spangle on 25/9/2005 at 17:09
I know what the problem is. Your computer hardware is too fast and too advanced. The only solution is to send it to me. You can PM me your contact information and credit card numbers, and I'll be sure to help you out. :angel:
passionne on 25/9/2005 at 17:39
I managed to solve the problem today : I attribute only 1 CPU to the game. For that, I use the very useful tool, WinLaunchXP. You can find it on the web.
242 on 26/9/2005 at 09:23
Quote Posted by passionne
I managed to solve the problem today : I attribute only 1 CPU to the game. For that, I use the very useful tool, WinLaunchXP. You can find it on the web.
TDS works (and should work) just fine with 2 cores enabled (Pentium 4), T1/2 don't though.
passionne on 26/9/2005 at 09:35
Quote Posted by 242
TDS works (and should work) just fine with 2 cores enabled (Pentium 4), T1/2 don't though.
Nevertheless, the intro movie loop and the reccurent crashes in the game have disappeared since I select only 1 CPU for Thief 3.
aRTimus on 25/1/2006 at 15:27
Quote Posted by passionne
I managed to solve the problem today : I attribute only 1 CPU to the game. For that, I use the very useful tool, WinLaunchXP. You can find it on the web.
Thanks for the pointer to Winlauncher. I had exactly the same looping intro issue as described above with T:DS on my new X2 system. Changing affinity once the program had launched didn't work, but using winlauncher to set affinity to one core only seems to have done the trick :)
Edit: Installing the Microsoft hotfix from (
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256) seems to have solved the problem completely. I can now run T: DS normally without using WinlauncherXP and without having to restrict it to one core :)
bogogf on 28/1/2006 at 08:20
I too was having this exact problem, the fix seems to have worked for me also, need to test further though. I've got an Amd 4200+ 64 X2, 2gb of ram, nvidia 7800 GTX O'C etc with the latest nvidia drivers.
elitenoobboy on 30/1/2009 at 01:14
That seems to work nicely. Was having a lot of trouble with crashes once I got to south quarter. Many thanks.
