Lord Ornlu on 26/4/2011 at 14:29
Hello, I recently purchased a pack that contained all 3 Thief Games, Thief 1 being Gold. The company that issued the pack was called Mastertronic. I have a Windows 7 64-bit system with an AMD Phenom 6-core 1090T, Asus AMD 890FX motherboard and an ATI Radeon HD 6870.
The games all open normally, without any patches, run widescreen, play the videos, but 5 minutes into the game and the game crashes. Or rather, it just freezes.
I tried DDfixing both games with DDfix 1.5.11 and I changed the widescreen resolutions as well (basically followed all this to the letter (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449)) and now they both crash before I can even load them.
Thief III runs smoothly. Any suggestions??
Goldmoon Dawn on 26/4/2011 at 15:29
I am tempted to just go ahead and say that the fact that Deadly is even on your system is the reason that the first two games dont work. :ebil:
Albert on 26/4/2011 at 16:02
Lawl. Try 1.5.8 and see if that works. :rolleyes:
DJ Riff on 26/4/2011 at 17:03
Change your Thief shortcut to:
Target: cmd /c start /affinity 1 thief.exe
Start in: {your Thief folder with full path, should be already there}
If you experience sound stuttering, try /affinity 2 instead of /affinity 1 .
Albert on 26/4/2011 at 17:37
I believe the ddfix 1.5 series applies multicore fix, no?
Lord Ornlu on 26/4/2011 at 18:33
tried 1.5.8 didn't work.
Thx DJ Riff, I forgot about the affinity. After I made the post, I remembered it and changed them manually from the Task Manager, thx for the piece of code, it's gonna be useful :)
Suprisingly enough, Deadly Shadows is the only one that made no bug yet :P not even the jumping bug when garret freezes midair :P
thx for all the help guys
Albert on 26/4/2011 at 20:52
Well that's not so surprising. Thief 3 is based on an engine with better comparability, whereas the proprietary Dark Engine for the first two was made to run best on the systems of its time.
But if you've got it (thief gold/2) working now then go back to 1.5.11, if you haven't already.
DJ Riff on 27/4/2011 at 05:56
Quote Posted by Albert
I believe the ddfix 1.5 series applies multicore fix, no?
It doesn't work sometimes. Even patching the .exe with FlipTIB or imagecfg doesn't work sometimes.
