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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Everything
What does not
N/A
What was not tested
Completing game - just first mission.
Additional Comments
First install Thief 2. Then install iv5play.exe from CD2. Now apply the 1.19 patch - it was for me essential. Without the patch the game was unplayable (ridiculous low FPS+no keyboard input) and videos didn't worked. It also enables 32-Bit graphic mode and a high resolution.
Sources for the patch are (thanks to http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140085&p=2143402#post2143402):
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/33869454/file.html | md5 : 131cd0a1d9e626ee90e569571e8d0d01
http://www.saleck.net/downloads/thief2/t2_v119.zip
http://anodal.org/thief/t2_v119.zip
http://www.southquarter.com/downloads/2012/t2_v119.zip
With this (amazing) patch a No-CD-Crack is no longer needed.
I have a Quadcore-processor but did not need to run it with a special command (e.g. taskset). It just works with the patch.
if you want to view the cinematics then you will also need a native quartz.dll
Running on multicore systems
I am told that the command
taskset -c0 wine thief2.exe
is needed (and sufficent) to run Thief and Thief2 on a multicore system.
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Thief 2 bug with ddfix
by Gena Shevtsov on Thursday June 28th 2012, 8:06
I have recently tried to use an older version of ddfix with Thief 2, version is 1.1.1 which uses directx 9. Other ddfix versions use directx 6 which result in a considerable fps drop in Thief 2. ddfix 1.1.1 on the other hand results in smooth high fps performance. The only problem is objects are seen through walls, objects such as walls, tables, trees even enemies.
Multiple keys being held down omits mouse commands
by Mark Hamik on Monday June 6th 2011, 13:32
Alot of things have been fixed with the recent DDFIX beta releases, but one issue that persists is the issues I get with keypress and mouse input. Holding down alt+w omits mouse click input which limits what I can do in the game.
directdraw HAL
by Mark Hamik on Sunday May 10th 2009, 1:15
Hi, the game boots up perfectly for me (I'm using the game as a moved copy from what I installed on my other computer that has vista, this system I'm on uses Ubuntu 8.10, I'm hesitant to move to 9.04 as of yet), or, at least the main menu does. No matter what I try, the game constantly crashes on me when I click on "Start Game" in the main menu. After setting a few options, I've succesfully have gotten the games ddfix settings correct, but the same problem persists. I think the games sound settings are fine (bareable though due to wines lack of EAX support), but the problem I think is that thief 2 just isn't picking up wines native direct x support (I think it used dx7-6, am I correct?) and is instead using the directdraw support which is probably not helping the games 3d graphics to function, am I right? I need a way totell the game that my systems uses directx, how do I go about doing this?
Video playback with builtin quartz.dll
by Alexander Dorofeyev on Sunday July 27th 2008, 12:44
AFAIK all known problems with video playback in Dark Engine games should be fixed as of wine-1.1.2. So everybody is encouraged to try it out with out-of-the box Wine, without dll overrides. Report bugs if something doesn't work.
Hey guys, I was really hoping to play this game using wine, regardless of the pointer issue (I hear its fixed in CVS) because my nvidia drivers in XP are too new (what?)
First question: how do you start the game in window mode?
Secondly here is the result if I don't try to start in window mode:
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f6a8,0x00000000), stub!
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1680x1050x16 @0! (XRandR)
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1680x1050x16 @0! (XRandR)
RE: by Ali Shah on
Sunday February 3rd 2008, 11:15
Crashes on Mulitprocessor systems
by Ben Hall on Sunday December 2nd 2007, 8:24
I've found a non-wine, dark engine problem that gave me some issues to do with multiprocessor systems. The program hangs in both windows and wine/linux for these systems, though in linux this can be overcome by installing the schedtool package and running it as:
schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine thief2.exe
(This was adapted from similar advice by David Hall in the "Command and Conquer Gold" AppDB comments)
