thief trouble

[glynnoss]

has anyone had trouble with thief.
im running it on a g400(32 meg dh),pd 5.41& dx7a.it wont let me use resolutions above 640*480 and the textures on water are corrupted,any ideas?
P3-500@525(105*5.5)
abit eb6 mobo
128meg ram
g400(32 meg dh)@158/210

[G200 PSYCHOMAN]

Yo,
i've got thief demo on my system which i've just begun playing. i don't think thief detects Dx7 (and yes i have read the readme files)- when i enable hardware acceleration it justs switches back to software saying something like "unable to initiate video mode or something"
i have Dx7 and PD5.41 on my g200sd.

[Nuno]

You mean, you are actually able to run Thief with 5.41 drivers? Consider yourself lucky. These drivers have a bug that crashes Thief and Thief engine based games (like System Shock2). Try using 5.30 drivers (but run Matrox unnistaller 1st)

[Spire]

The PD 5.41 bug does not cause Thief to crash. It will run, albeit in what appears to be some kind of corrupted software mode -- just as glynnoss described above.

As Nuno said, the only work-around at the moment is to downgrade to PD 5.30. Matrox is currently working on a fix.

[glynnoss]

put the 5.30 powerdesk drivers back on & theif works great.
cheers nuno & spire!!
godddammit wheres the beer!!

[glynnoss]

dammit,spot the toilet who cant spell!!
soz people(i am also a lazy english a-hole who cant be arsed to use caps lock).
merry christmas

[Nuno]

Glad you got it working

Merry Christmas man