jbairdjr43 on 6/8/2012 at 11:36
I had to force install Thief Gold. No surprise there, but when I tried to play it, the game crashed on me. A dialog box appeared saying, "Thief Gold encountered a problem....." I went to the help section here and was told that this problem is associated with Vista. Only I'm using XP!
Any ideas? Many thanks in advance!
jbairdjr43 on 6/8/2012 at 11:47
incidentally, I tried installing the unofficial update for Thief Gold, Darkloader, DDfix, and OrGy's texture patch, but when I go to play, the graphics are bad, I get mixed "colors", and the same end result: crashes.
Homebuilt tower pc dual core processor
HDMI monitor
jbairdjr43 on 6/8/2012 at 11:48
Hi, Constance!
I tried that, but to no avail.
jbairdjr43 on 6/8/2012 at 12:01
So after all that, I uninstalled Thief Gold, and am starting from square 1. I can't even get past the opening screen (the one where EIDOS appears in big blue letters) before I get the dialog box "Thief Gold encountered a problem blahblahblah....."
:(
jbairdjr43 on 6/8/2012 at 12:23
Tried the unofficial patch again, and once I get to the game, crash! The screen goes pink and I have to force quit and reboot my whole computer!
When the intro vid plays, I notice there are two very large black bars on the left and right of my screen. This lasts right up until the game crashes.
voodoo47 on 6/8/2012 at 12:52
post your full hardware specs. any chance you are running hd radeon under winxp? where exactly are you crashing - right before you would get into the game, after clicking the "play mission" button? and the videos play, you say?
Constance on 6/8/2012 at 16:26
Quote Posted by jbairdjr43
When the intro vid plays, I notice there are two very large black bars on the left and right of my screen. This lasts right up until the game crashes.
That part at least is totally normal if you have a wide screen, because the videos are 4:3
jbairdjr43 on 6/8/2012 at 17:31
Quote Posted by voodoo47
post your full hardware specs. any chance you are running hd radeon under winxp? where exactly are you crashing - right before you would get into the game, after clicking the "play mission" button? and the videos play, you say?
WinXP SP3
Intel Core Duo Processor
4 gigs of RAM
Onboard video with HDMI interface, and onboard sound.
Sunmicro mobo
I'm not running any extra pci or pci-e cards, so there shouldn't be a chance of my tower running an hd radeon video.
Before all the updates, I was crashing right after I double-clicked on the Thief:Gold icon. After the updates, I crash a few seconds after the game starts. Same thing every time: bad graphics, ghosting, screen turns colors (it was almost psychedelic, actually) , and everything freezes.
voodoo47 on 6/8/2012 at 17:41
ah yes, the joys of intel integrated graphics cards. try using the hdradeon fix that is included with TFix (see the readme). try updating you graphics card driver as well.
