Thief II: The Metal Age

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.

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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.

Anyone know why this may occur?

If videos stop working, run:

winetricks icodecs

To fix the annoying mouse lag/delay, use dardack's patch at ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1051483&page=22

I could only get it to run by using a fixed exe file.
I could watch the videos without installing a new dll.

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?

I think you are, the only hardware API/driver available in the video preferences is DirectDraw HAL and possibly because of that the frame rate is abysmal since it's in pure software mode it seems. Even with all video settings turned to lowest and res at very low is it still completely unplayable. Using a 4850x2, Phenom II X4 3.2GHz proc, 4GB RAM, Ubuntu 8.10, fglrx driver. Using latest 1.1.21 Wine.

Oh and also, I didn't install iv5play or whatever, or anything else besides Thief 2, and then the latest patch (1.18?). The cinematics are fine, it's just the 3D that is the problem.

Again: How do I force Directx?

Thief2 is not playable on my Kubuntu and Intel X3100 card becouse very low FPS and freezing... Is thare any way to run game in software rendering mode like in Thief 1 which runs smoothly in wine ?

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)

At which point I get a blank error box.

I should note that this is on wine-0.9.52

This is bug no.:
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40284

This is bug no.:
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40284

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)

You can do this via taskset:

taskset -c 1 wine thief2.exe

0x2 is the *second* core/CPU, which is wrong in my experience - Thief2 has a very slow menu if not run on the first core. So, these two are correct:

taskset -c 0 /usr/bin/wine thief2.exe
or
schedtool -a 0x1 -e /usr/bin/wine thief2.exe

Also, I get a black screen and crash after loading a game, but this fixes it:
echo -e "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Wine\\Direct3D]\n\"DirectDrawRenderer\"=\"opengl\"" | wine regedit -