Darragh on 3/6/2007 at 10:50
I have another question.
How do you choose difficulty level?
At the start it is stuck on normal or easy and after the training mission I think I put it on hard but at the end of the first mission in the statistics screen it was back to easy again.
Is there a console command to check or change the difficulty level during mission?
Darragh on 3/6/2007 at 11:56
Quote Posted by theBlackman
I run an ATI AIW X800XT and all the THIEF games (TDP, TMA,GOLD, and TDS) run on XP with no problems.
I do run the OMEGA drivers, however. Over time I have found that (
www.omegadrivers.net) deliver better drivers than Nvidia or ATI.
I'm downloading the OMEGA drivers right now. I'm not that technically inclined, so can you tell me how to go about installing them? Do I need to unistall the previous one's first?
Vigil on 3/6/2007 at 12:02
Quote Posted by Darragh
At the start it is stuck on normal or easy and after the training mission I think I put it on hard but at the end of the first mission in the statistics screen it was back to easy again.
Have you patched the game? The 1.1 patch for the game corrects a bug whereby the AI difficulty level is reset when you reload. I didn't think this actually showed up on the statistics screen, but it could be the same thing.
Darragh on 3/6/2007 at 12:24
Yes it's patched to version 1.1.
c130 on 3/6/2007 at 19:15
You can sort that manually:
1) Go into the Thief DS "System" folder
2) Open up DEFAULT.INI (make a backup copy first) in Notepad
3) Scroll down to [Difficulty]
4) Change the number next to all five "Easy" lines to match the equivalent Hard or Expert numbers
5) Save, close, restart Thief. Hooray, now it doesn't matter if it changes back to Easy, because Easy will just be Hard or Expert under a different name.
Darragh on 4/6/2007 at 09:17
I played through the training mission again and after it ended selected the hard difficulty level. I then played through the first mission and at the end it was still set to hard. So it must have been my own error in the first place.
I installed the Omega drivers but TDS wouldn't load because of some error encountered. I had to uninstall everything and restore my computer to a previous state before I could get it working again. Now my gfx card is running on some WinXP default set of drivers and I can't manually search for drivers of my own choosing because when I try clicking the properties tab nothing happens.
However that's just something to do with this computer because I'm borrowing it from my sister and she hasn't a clue about maintaining a PC and everything is just chaos on this one due to random installations and deletions of software. It badly needs a format/reinstall.
Anyway I reinstalled the Omega drivers and while I can't get TDS working, I can still play Quake 3 Arena on the high performance settings I am used to, which the WinXP default drivers wouln't allow me to do. I am buying a new PC soon anyway as my old one died recently, so I will just wait until then to play TDS.
Thanks for your help guys.
