What works

What works Installation. Play, with recent ddfix multicore fix

What does not

What does not Sound Acceleration without setting to emulation On a multiprocessor machine (dual core here), it hangs with the well known DarkEngine bug. It can be worked around with a (recent, mine is 1.5.5) ddfix and multicore fix. You can configure ddfix graphically if you install dotnet2.0 with winetricks. Don't use imagecfg.exe, it doesn't work on wine, either patching the exe or running a patched exe (it ignores the affinity change). Using taskset or other linux affinity tools on the process wine launched: wine thief.exe & sleep 2 taskset -cp 0 $! appears to work for a while, however the game itself appears to change the affinity after before running the movie of the first mission - it hangs and taskset reports a changed affinity. Only other two solutions i found were setting the affinity on the wine taskmgr clone, or using this utility: http://www.activeplus.com/us/freeware/runfirst/

Workarounds

What was not tested

dromed

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

There is a trick to set winecfg settings to specific executables from the command line (so you don't have to keep the .wine dir). In this case it is: wine reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Wine\\Appdefaults\\THIEF.EXE\\DirectSound" /v "HardwareAcceleration" /t REG_SZ /d "Emulation" Admin note:rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.

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.

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.