massimilianogoi on 10/2/2010 at 17:51
Quote Posted by Herr_Garrett
Well, I strongly recommend that you download porn, torrents, stuff from rapidshare and just about anything, really, into C:\WINDOWS\System32, or its equivalent. I assure you, it will do no harm.
Little offtopic
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Hm!.... I see that you are an expert about where to find that crap... And the answer is: no, surely they WILL NOT HARM, if they are only avi, mp*, ogg, mkv, flc, asf or wmv files. WAKE UP! I see that you may be expert in porn, but not expert in computer science... These kind of files ARE NOT ABLE to propagate viruses, trojans, or worms by itself.
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bikerdude on 10/2/2010 at 21:20
ZB & others if you cant keep your attitude in check don't bother posting, otherwise the thread will just get locked.
ZylonBane on 10/2/2010 at 22:38
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
Nameless Voice on 10/2/2010 at 23:48
Quote Posted by Albert
And there was no fam file to begin with so I made one in the ThiefG folder.
You shouldn't be making a fam file, you should be putting them in a fam
folder.
You don't need to modify install.cfg unless you are trying to do something clever.
Thief will automatically look in the fam folder and override the contents of fam.crf, provided that your install is optimised (e.g. crf files in a separate folder).
massimilianogoi on 15/2/2010 at 22:31
Quote Posted by Albert
I love how everyone is blaming me for installing Thief Gold in the root of my ntfs partition. :rolleyes:
Seriously, I simply did what the installer told me, and made it a full install, and applied the no cd patch. The End.
The fact that optimizing the game didn't solve diddly squat, is just flabbergasting, given that prior installations of Thief G have had a fam file.
In closing, ZB and HG:
Up Yours!
Yeah, I didn't want to be wrongly stripped of my insulting image while you flaunt your pointless, and off-topic facepalm pics.
You did nothing bad at all installing your thief in C! Those two are not but frustrated by their wretched existence. I hope your game is working fine now :thumb:
jtr7 on 15/2/2010 at 22:50
What's confusing for someone like me, who don't know diddly about OSs' technical stuffage, is that...I don't just see the OS on the root. I see folders made for my installs and that the default filepath for most of my games is on the root, and since it's ALL on C:\ and in just a folder, or a folder within a folder,or a folder within a folder within a folder, like the OS and the "Program Files", and there's nothing that tells me I shouldn't put anything there, nothing to tell me not to keep my filepaths one folder shorter, and Windows doesn't warn or suggest anything to me when I add something there. (Most of my apps are in the Program Files folder). So when the only heads up I've ever gotten in 15 years of PC computing is a wiseass know-it-all-but-informing-not sneering on a forum, and I follow instructions by people much more advanced than I when installing and they don't say anything about it, nor are they corrected, I don't see the justification.
For installing T3Ed:
Quote:
For reasons that will become clear later it is best to install it to a directory named
Thief3 rather than the default
Thief - Deadly Shadows. Also, avoid installing it under the
Program Files directory, or any other directory that contains spaces in its name.
So, what is to be assumed? Create a folder on C:\ to install the folder into, or some other OS folder without spaces? Does a folder within a folder create the necessary safety?
Nameless Voice on 15/2/2010 at 23:22
It's just messy. Folders are for sorting your data.
Why not make a Games folder and install all your games into there?
jtr7 on 15/2/2010 at 23:32
Sure, but what protects the Games folder, according to the reasoning?
Nameless Voice on 15/2/2010 at 23:34
Protects it from what?
If you make a games folder and put all yours games in there, you have a folder with all your games in it. You don't have a folder that has a collection of very different things, including games, your operating system, your programs, the NTFS bootloader, the pagefile, the hibernation file, etc.
Can't you clearly see that one of those is very messy, and the other is far more orderly?
oRGy on 15/2/2010 at 23:34
Eck, Windows is damn messy anyway. Why cant applications be in "Applications", and documents be in "Documents"? You could even have essential system files in a "System" folder!
Following the guide recently, I did the following in a nostalgia exercise:
1) Install Thief Gold
2) Install DDFix and Widescreen patch
3) Install DarkLoader
4) Run DarkLoader and "Optimise" installation
5) Download Texture patch
6) Extract texture patch to root ThiefG directory, so that files are in ThiefG/fam/[name]. WinZip or 7z File Manger suffice for this purpose.
7) Install the model patch
Ran it, everything worked perfectly, no problems at all.
Rather bizarre to see that this mod was released nearly 10 years ago though. I vaguely remember it being mentioned in print in PC Gamer UK. Scary.
Replacing the textures with fancy modern versions would be possible, but you would be limited to 256 by 256 pixel size. And modern recoatings do tend to lose the essential atmosphere of the originals. So I am not sure of the utility of such an exercise.
