jay pettitt on 14/5/2009 at 21:30
Not so long ago I kind of noticed that I had hardly used Windows on my lappy in over a year and it was sitting there taking up 80 gig of disk space so I ditched it. There's one or two things I'll miss a bit, but not as much as I miss half my hard drive. One of those things will be Thi3f. Th1ef and T2ief work pretty much fine with (
http://www.winehq.org/) Wine.
Oh wait Thi3f works too :D. nearly. (I'm sure you all knew this a year ago, but it's news to me, so I'm excited and I'm going to tell you all anyway)
On my system the menu text is corrupted, so it's a little hard to know what you're clicking on, but its just about workable with.
Bloom causes some interesting rendering artefacts. This can be fixed by switching Bloom off. Multi Sampling then works a treat.
The biggest problem seems to be that mouse input is restricted by the size of the screen. You can look left until an imaginary mouse pointer hits the edge of the screen, after which you can look left no further. It's annoying but work aroundable by mapping a couple of keys (happily the key mapping menu is not corrupted) to Rotate Left and Rotate Right - carefully coordinating your mouse looking escapades with your rotating left and right escapades means you are free to move around
and look at stuff. It's easier than it sounds. There's probably a better fix if you know what you're doing.
Elsewise it's smooth, fast and the sound works (which was never the case under Vista). I'm going to have to give the editor a go. Oh and some mods.
--edit--
oh wait - readables are a bit funky too, much like the menus.
And the editor is, as far as I can tell, unusable...
On the other hand Wide Screen and JohnP's texture mods work well.
In case anyone is interested I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit as it happens, but I can't see that making a difference) and running wine 1.01 using nVidia 180.044 video drivers - which is just the bog standard Ubuntu stuff on my system.
Ladron De La Noche on 15/5/2009 at 01:01
1 s33 w4ht u d1d th3r3. ;)
Thi4f :p
Stath MIA on 15/5/2009 at 01:26
Quote Posted by jay pettitt
The biggest problem seems to be that mouse input is restricted by the size of the screen. You can look left until an imaginary mouse pointer hits the edge of the screen, after which you can look left no further.
This is no bug. Take pleasure in knowing that you have an actual body, with all its advantages (virtually none) and disadvantages (this)! This is Ion Storm's attempt to make gameplay more realistic (can you twist your head around backwards?:confused:), your gonna have to move in order to look.
Beleg Cúthalion on 15/5/2009 at 06:20
Every sort of menu or readable text is created with an alpha dds texture file including all letters. Don't know what you can do about DirectX. :confused:
PsymH on 15/5/2009 at 08:08
What me really interest is: Is it possible to have EAX effects turned on?
eddy on 15/5/2009 at 13:41
There's no EAX support in Linux and also no EAX emulation in Wine.
jay pettitt on 15/5/2009 at 14:05
Quote Posted by Abysmal
Have you tried T3 with the latest Wine 1.1.21? You can download the newer versions in Ubuntu .deb format from (
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html) here. I'm very interested to know the results.
T1 and T2 have always worked basically perfect in modern Wine builds, even with DDFix, widescreen support, and fan missions. In fact I'd even go so far as to wager that soon (if not already) Linux will be the superior platform to run legacy Windows software.
Doesn't work for me with Wine 1.1.21. Game hangs at the main menu. Sorry :(
Quote Posted by eddy
There's no EAX support in Linux and also no EAX emulation in Wine.
Creative have proprietary linux drivers for their X-Fi cards that support EAX. I've no idea how or if this applies to Thief.
Stath MIA on 15/5/2009 at 19:53
Hmm.... so maybe I've had a bug all along and didn't know it. Freaky.
jay pettitt on 15/5/2009 at 22:59
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