jbairdjr on 18/10/2006 at 00:08
Whilst I play Thief Gold on a (somewhat) regular basis, I experienced a problem with this game which I find rather interesting.
The other day, I loaded TG into my cd player, double-clicked on my desktop TG icon and got the following dialog box:
"You have xM of free disk space. Thief requires 35M. Thief cannot run."
I found this very odd as over the course of playing the game, this message NEVER appeared--until now.
My first thought was that it the disk got scratched. So I checked the disk and no problems. Then I thought it was a virus. Sure enough, as soon as I ran and update and immunize SpybotS&D, StopZilla! (my pop-up blocker) says "VirusBurst" was on my system and wants to know if I want it removed. Of course I click yes and after a few other anti-virus checks (I ran Ad-Aware, Spybot again [several times], CWShredder, Spyhunter and Norton) all seemed well.
So I tried loading TG again and I get the same disk space dialog box. Only this time, it tells me that the disk space I have was less than when the dialog box appeared the first time. What gives?
Has anybody else been through a similar situation? Can this (or any other) virus modify the disk space requirements or the user.cfg file such that the disk space dialog box appears? What about when the dialog box appears, it shows that the available space is decreasing?
I'll run a few more virus checks tonight before I modify the user.cfg file as per the FAQ. In the meantime, can anybody help me? This is too weird.
Thanx! :)
Eshaktaar on 18/10/2006 at 00:37
Thief is just an old game that doesn't expect hard drives to be as large as they are nowadays and thus gets the remaining disk space wrong. The virus you found at about the same time likely doesn't even have anything to do with it.
jbairdjr on 18/10/2006 at 00:52
If that's the case, then why would TG start sending me that memory space dialog box when it never did before?
Eshaktaar on 18/10/2006 at 00:59
Because the amount of free space on your HD just happened to trigger the message. If you installed a program or deleted some unneeded files (>35 MB), the message would disappear. It can happen anytime and even never at all ;)
derfy on 18/10/2006 at 01:20
Quote Posted by "TFF"
Thief is saying it cannot play, because I do not have enough space, even if I have a lot of free disk space: how do I fix this?
Open the file user.cfg found in the Thief directory and add the line skip_starting_checks to it and save it. Please note, it may be necessary to create this file.
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june gloom on 18/10/2006 at 04:44
one day i got this message. apparently it was because i had less than 3.5gb of HD space, but more than a gig. thief reads only the first few numbers of total space remaining, so it thought i had 15mb of HD space left (lolz). so i added some more crap that put me under 1gb, and it worked.
Mortal Monkey on 18/10/2006 at 08:26
And if you don't have any crap, you can always (
http://phpfi.com/164934) make some.
Vigil on 18/10/2006 at 09:50
Quote Posted by derfy
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Open the file user.cfg found in the Thief directory and add the line skip_starting_checks to it and save it. Please note, it may be necessary to create this file.</h2>
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Mortal Monkey on 18/10/2006 at 19:22
But that's no fun :(
