Thief II

[Strahd]

I have been trying to get Thief II running for a while on an AMD K6-2 400MHz, Asus P5A motherboard with a G400 and am not able to get anywhere. The whole game installs fine, I can start the game and select the level of difficulty, and choose all my weapons etc. The game starts to load up, and just as it goes to switch resolutions, BOOM, back to the desktop, no error message, it's not present in task manager. It's just gone.
Any one experience anything similar?

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[Frankfurt]

What driver version are you using, and are you running it in windows 98?
it is because of the thief engine...the matrox drivers 5.41 dont seem to let it work when using those drivers.
Either fall back to 5.30 or 5.52, or in win2k it seems to work for me on either driver version 5.03 or 5.04

Frankfurt

[Strahd]

Seems to me I have tried the 5.30, 5.41, 5.52 drivers and all did exactly the same thing. I'm using Windows 98SE. IRQs are clean. I could always try it in Windows 2000.

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[rjcarr]

Try making sure you desktop display depth is either 16 or 32 (preferably ... 16 I think). If you have it set to 24bpp or some other number I think that is where the problem could be.

-joe

[joxx90]

'Scuse me for askin, but r u running a <u>retail</u> version?

I only had that exact same problem when I was tryin to play a version installed from *.rar files.

If that's what youve got, burn the install files (extracted) onto a CD and install to your HDD from there.

Worked for me.

[Tom]

Strahd,

Are you able to view the cutscene AVIs?
If the game crashes just as the cutscene AVI begins, you need to install the Intel Video codecs. You can do this by running the
"iv5play.exe" on the disc2 game CD.
I would try this first.
p.s. Thief Gold and ThiefII are BY FAR my favorite games. I hope you enjoy ThiefII!

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Matrox G400MAX PowerDesk 6.11.031
PIII 616
Asus P2B-L
128MB
Quantum Fireball KX 27.3
ADI G66
Monster Sound MX200
Motorola CyberSURFR



[This message has been edited by Tom (edited 19 August 2000).]

[Strahd]

joxx90
I think you might be on to something. unfortunately I didn't purchase it. I haven't got a chance to try it yet in a different system but I'm sure the burn is the problem.

Tom,
I can watch the intro at the beginning, it's just as your about to see the game start with the first mission that it kicks back.

I've tried drivers, resolutions, color, etc.

I even tried with my 3D blaster Banshee and it did the same thing so I am sure it's the burn now.

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[jliger99]

Matrox has a patch for Thief II.

The link is:

ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/games/patches/thief2patch107-118.exe

Unfortunately, it's 32.4 Meg...

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JLiger99

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
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