Thief DS Crashing- Nothing's working

zombywoof83 on 24/11/2008 at 00:18

I bought Thief Deadly Shadows off of Steam, and it keeps crashing when it's loading up the first level (I can get the main menu, and running Admin gets me the awesome intro).

I have a Quad-core, but setting affinity doesn't work at all, unlike Thief 1 and System Shock 2. I've tried many other things, but it's still crashing.

My specs are:

Vista Home Premium 32 bit
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-core processor ~2.2Ghz
3 Gig RAM
Direct 10x
NVidia GeForce 8800

Does anyone have any ideas to get past this?

EvaUnit02 on 24/11/2008 at 00:29

Make a backup of your t3.exe and try (http://rapidshare.com/files/166766214/T3.zip.html) this. Don't worry, it's a legitimate Non-copy protected v1.1 EXE that was included on my retail Thief 3 DVD.

zombywoof83 on 24/11/2008 at 03:31

Thanks, but it didn't work.

massimilianogoi on 24/11/2008 at 05:14

Try to play it under (http://www.vmware.com/) virtual machine before, with XP on.

Download their free VM player (not for music eih? :p) and configure before the VM with (http://vmmanager.sourceforge.net/) this. It shouldn't be too hard (remember to activate the 3D accelleration).

If still doesn't works, well I suggest you to buy a gun :p.