Preno on 5/11/2006 at 00:22
I have a strange problem with Thief 2 I've never encountered before.
It won't run. Whether I choose to play a FM or the OMs, it crashes during the stage when I should either start the mission itself or see the store screen. The objectives are displayed alright, and when I choose the difficulty, the mission starts loading - it's just that I never actually get ingame. Even DromEd can't load any mission.
What's strange about this is that I haven't done anything 'suspicious' at all. The last FM that worked OK was The Old Tribe - then I tried to play The Hole, only to encounter this bug. Tried several other FMs and none of them work.
So I checked Thief's directory - and I see that for some unknown reason, a folder called 'Bitmap', which contains a few tga's and thiefpal.pcx, has newly materialized there (none of the FMs I played even contains this folder!). The only other file that changed (besides the normal ones, like DarkLoader.current) is cam.cfg, it now says:
Quote:
; hey, which game is this
game dark
; general configs
include_user_cfg user.cfg
editor_include_dromed_cfg dromed.cfg
; game specific paths/configs
dark_include_install_cfg darkinst.cfg
shock_include_install_cfg install.cfg
; set trait cache to include concretes
trait_cache_flags 2
no_network
sfx_vol_music -474
fogging 1
enhanced_sky 1
render_weather 1
game_full_screen 1
game_screen_flags 13
sfx_vol_3d 0
game_hardware 1
gamma 0.5
sfx_vol_2d 0
game_screen_depth 16
ambient_volume -300
sfx_device 1
sfx_channels 12
game_screen_size 640 480
master_volume 0
skip_intro
vmCenterY 0.4380341768
vmCenterX 0.4949748814
last_command light_bright
d3d_driver_index 0
skip_starting_checks
It seems to me that the problem arises when Thief/DromEd tries to draw the mission. If so, the heart of the problem might be this file.
Unfortunately, I can't find the original T2 CD and just reinstall the whole thing. Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?
(And no, I did not install any new video drivers or twiddled with any settings)
Preno on 5/11/2006 at 16:42
OK, I figured it out (or rather, dug out an old post by bukary which helped). In case someone else has the same problem - for whatever reason, you need to delete (rename) motiondb.bin. Don't ask me why, but it worked.
june gloom on 5/11/2006 at 22:34
the builder helps those who help themselves. :thumb:
that IS a strange bug, though. i'd recommend looking harder for your T2 CD in case something else pops up.
