What's your dream computer to play Thief?

DJ Riff on 5/5/2011 at 06:33

I have this rig for Thief now:
AMD 3700+, 2Gb RAM, GeForce7600GT, Vortex 2 Soundcard, Win2000, Mitsubishi DPro 750SB CRT. Seems ideal for all Thieves and Dark Mod.

As a back-up machine:
AMD 2000+, 1Gb RAM, GeForce Ti4200. Good enough too.

Azaran on 5/5/2011 at 10:21

My current system runs all 3 games fine (with ddfix for T1 and 2, and the other patches): Acer Aspire AX1800, 4gb of ram, 600gb hard drive, Nvidia Geforce 7100 (256mb) Windows 7 x64.
Before that I had a Pentium 3 that I periodically updated, and it ran T1 and 2 fine, but with ddfix (XP Pro, and an Nvidia 256mb card.). The last time I was able to run T1 and 2 on it without any patches was when I had Win 98SE on it, and an ATI Radeon 64mb video card (the only problem was that fog didn't work in T2, but otherwise it was fine).
But like Gunsmoke said, with all the fan patches available, it makes downgrading to an older system pretty pointless

truz on 6/5/2011 at 18:01

Actually, I've got an LCD screen but everytime when I'm home (the 2nd one^^) I play Thief on an old PC (my parents bought it in 1999 I think) with an even older tube monitor, and it looks WAY better than on my LCD screen (although this PC has really shitty graphics so you can't even run TDP on higher resolutions and with much detail)...
Colors are simply "better", you have "real" black and everything looks... uhm.... Arrrgh, can't describe it. Simply looks better.

So, my dream PC for playing Thief would be some random pretty new one (let's say build after 2005 or so) but with a nice, old tube monitor.

all on 6/5/2011 at 20:55

Ok, so I understand old tube monitors are better for Thief than LCDs. Would older monitors be compatible with Eyefinity (as Brethren mentioned earlier)? I'm assuming Thief would be thanks to the numerous patches highlighted above...

I just found this for the dark mod and wondered how such a setup would feel with thief: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpAh-pVXDc)

another example: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAyapfX7jpg)

So, in regards to the screen, what would be better between Eyefinity or a single huge 40 plus inch?

And what about plasma monitors?

lost_soul on 6/5/2011 at 21:41

This (http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/) http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/USB stick , which happens to have a 700 MHz processor, 128 megs of RAM and opengl graphics.

Albert on 8/5/2011 at 06:45

Woah! :eek:

I so want that. :D

taffing benny on 8/5/2011 at 08:20

:ebil: i'm evil. i've got a computer running all the thief games on it and it's just got XP and vista on it and i like how the moniter looks fine. [tds doesn't like win 7]

theBlackman on 9/5/2011 at 23:02

My monitor. Dual feed from Win98 system and my XP system.

(http://www.superwarehouse.com/IBM_ThinkVision_C190_Black_19%22_CRT_Display/6739P0N/p/647071)

I have a LCD but this analog 19 incher is great for THIEF and much preferred.

Sg3 on 10/5/2011 at 03:14

One of my old computers. That was my dream computer for playing Thief, until the computer died. : (

Ghost on 15/5/2011 at 21:04

i have a P4 3 gig box and a windows 98se hard drive with the games loaded when i want to play. no updating or shenanigans needed :p