Application Details:
Version: | 1.0-1.33 |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.eidosinteractive.co... |
Votes: | 4 |
Latest Rating: | Garbage |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.23 |
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What works
The game works "ok" with just some wine settings altered. However without my method below you get some annoying things like playing it in a window on your desktop, and an annoying mouse cursor in the middle of the screen.When I did my little scripts though I think the experience is not perfect but surely without major problems and I say it is very playable. What I did, that you can read how to do below, is to start wine and the game in a second Xserver with evilwm as windowmanager with just a small black 1px border and black background, and transparent mouse cursor, to simulate a fullscreen experience.Best of luck to you!
What does not
- Fullscreen. : You have to run it in virtual desktop mode or you get problems. My script hack below makes it playable anyway though so don't worry.- Mouse cursor : The window manager mouse cursor is visible in the game. My script hack below makes it playable anyway though so don't worry. - Movies- Menu screen and play screen has different size. The menu screen is smaller than it should and doesnt scale to the full specified resolution but is in its original size in the top left corner. Just annoying but doesnt affect gameplay at all.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Um a lot most likely?
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
How to make it work and notes: - Configure X to be startable by everybody. On Debian you do this with "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common". There change so everybody can start the X server. This is needed to be able to execute the script to initiate a second X server for wine and the game. - Download and install or make a transparent xcursor. http://wiki.x.org/wiki/AdvancedTopicsFAQ tells you how to make one. - Make scripts to start the second xserver and start wine and thief. Since I suck at scripting I made two scripts. /home/jesper/bin/thiefI_start.newxserver.sh containing " xinit /home/jesper/bin/thiefI_start.wineexec.sh -- :1 " and /home/jesper/bin/thiefI_start.wineexec.sh containing "xsetroot -display :1 -solid black -cursor /home/jesper/bin/emptycursor/transp.xbm /home/jesper/bin/emptycursor/transp.xbm & evilwm -bg black -fg black -bw 1 & xterm -bg black -fg grey20 -geometry 120x5-300-0 & cd /home/jesper/.wine/drive_c/Games/Thief/; /usr/local/bin/wine THIEF.EXE -geometry +200+200" Remove the xterm if you dont want a n xterm below game window if you want to or have to launch something to debug or whatever. In #winehq at freenode they say it is best to start the games with windows path like "wine "C:\Games\Thief\THIEF.EXE" but for some reason I got errors. - Of course chmod +x the scripts and edit to your own paths and filenames. - I found that installing evilwm and using it as I did solved getting rid of the cursor and be able to position the window nice. There are of course other ways to do this that you might like more. - Run winecfg and check "Emulate a virtual desktop". I have mine at 1024x768, which is thiefI's maximum resolution. - Oss works for sound for me. - I find it to be very responsive and playable. I have heard people saying before that it is slow but I don't notice it. It might be that I have a powerfull system though. I am running a core2 duo 2 gig ram and nvidia 7950gx2 card.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | macOS Monterey 12.2.1 | Feb 16 2022 | 6.23 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Garbage | John Doe | |
Show | openSUSE Leap 15.3 | Oct 26 2021 | 6.20-staging | N/A | Yes | No | Silver | Ben Suttor | |
Show | Pop!_Os 20.10 | Feb 10 2021 | 6.2-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Dylan | |
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 |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
881 | Mouse cursor not blanked | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
5823 | Thief Direct3D renders VERY slowly, with blocks of colour drawn | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
7585 | Thief: the dark project hangs on 'esc' keypress in game if X in 24bpp mode | NEW | View | |
12722 | intel software codecs video not working for thief/system shock | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
13954 | Only top half of screen visible | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
15157 | Thief the dark project crashes on startup. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
16559 | PixelFormat_WineD3DtoDD Can't translate this Pixelformat | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
17900 | RenderTargetLockMode=disabled required for playable display (ati) | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
24870 | thief gold multiprocessor bug not affected by taskset or schedtool. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
46429 | Multiple games need IV50 codec to play videos (Thief Gold, Thief II: The Metal Age, Commandos 2: Men of Courage) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
52004 | Thief Gold and Thief II, NewDark engine, mouse lag | UNCONFIRMED | View |
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.
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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