Thief: The Dark Project

Original & Gold editions

Application Details:

Version:	1.0-1.33
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.eidosinteractive.co...
Votes:	4
Latest Rating:	Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested:	2.10-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

P. Neidhardt

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Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

Menus, installation, copy protection. Installation (as with System Shock 2, which is based on the same engine) must be started with the "-lgntforce" flag to convince the program that it is not being run in nt. This is not necessary to run the game

What does not

Cutscenes, game itself. After accepting the mission the level loads and a blank screen is presented. It remains this way for an extended period of time and must be killed to stop it. The game itself never starts.

Workarounds

What was not tested

N/A

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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Additional Comments

Similar problems as experienced in Ubuntu 606 (below), except that no frames are rendered and it doesn't crash. This previously worked on the same system for version 0.9.7. Other "Dark engine" games have similar problems (Thief 2, System Shock 2)

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Funtoo Linux AMD64	Jul 11 2017	2.10-staging	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Anonymous Anonymous
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Feb 07 2017	2.1	Yes	Yes		Platinum	P. Neidhardt
Show	Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 16 2015	1.7.45	No, but has workaround	Yes		Gold	Ezequiel Ferriol
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 14 2014	1.7.16	Yes	Yes		Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 12 2014	1.6.1	Yes	Yes		Bronze	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
7585	Thief: the dark project hangs on 'esc' keypress in game if X in 24bpp mode	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

Hardware compatibility

Thief is an old game that will have problems on modern hardware, Windows or Wine. Therefore you must install TFix to run the game.

TFix might prompt a warning on language settings for the GOG version: you can safely ignore it.

Installation

Original setup

Launch it with `wine setup.exe -lgntforce` to bypass the DirectX limitation warning.
The Intel video codecs proposed at the end of the installation ("iv5codecs.exe") are no longer necessary with recent versions of Wine.
Copy the THIEF/MOVIES folder from the disc to the game installation folder in order to play the game cutscene without disc.

GOG setup

It may prompt an error message at the end of the process. Do not confirm or it will revert the install. Kill wine instead.

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