Thief DS - crash on start

Szynek on 14/9/2010 at 13:37

Hi there! I've got unusual problem with Thief - Deadly Shadows. I didn't find solution in FAQ, so I'm posting here.

When I run the game ("t3.exe") and try to play the new game the only thing I see is black screen and some interface on the bottom of the screen. Nothing happens, so I have to kill the Thief process via task manager. The weird thing is, that after that, most of the game files are missing! See for your self (screenshots before and after first running the game):
(http://img201.imageshack.us/i/16746416.png/)

Inline Image:

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9643/16746416.th.png (http://img199.imageshack.us/i/97567081.png/)

Inline Image:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/594/97567081.th.png

I'm playing on Toshiba Satellite A300 and I've got Windows 7. I'm using firewall and antivirus, I have the latest drivers, I'm cleaning my HDD regularly and I've never seen anything like this before.

Please help me, I'm running out of ideas :(

DJ Riff on 14/9/2010 at 16:49

1. First of all, make sure you have full read/write access to your D:\Gry folder. Otherwise, Windows may try to move those files to virtual location and then forget to place them back.

2. Find your SaveGames folder. Usually it is placed in Your Documents\Thief - Deadly Shadows
3. Move the folder to your D:\Gry\Thief - Deadly Shadows
If you couldn't find the SaveGames folder, just create it, the game will create all files in it from scratch.
4. Open the Registry Editor, find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ion Storm\Thief - Deadly Shadows and change the SaveGamePath parameter to D:\Gry\Thief - Deadly Shadows
5. If you have a multi-core processor, use any software to set the affinity of T3.EXE and T3MAIN.EXE to one and the same core ((http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127533) FlipTib or imagecfg should be fine).

Szynek on 14/9/2010 at 17:29

Quote Posted by DJ Riff

2. Find your SaveGames folder. Usually it is placed in Your Documents\Thief - Deadly Shadows
3. Move the folder to your D:\Gry\Thief - Deadly Shadows
If you couldn't find the SaveGames folder, just create it, the game will create all files in it from scratch.
4. Open the Registry Editor, find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ion Storm\Thief - Deadly Shadows and change the SaveGamePath parameter to D:\Gry\Thief - Deadly Shadows
5. If you have a multi-core processor, use any software to set the affinity of T3.EXE and T3MAIN.EXE to one and the same core ((http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127533) FlipTib or imagecfg should be fine).

Thank you, the game works perfectly :) I'm not sure which one of these points helped me but I really don't care about it right now :cheeky: