Ok so I just got Thief 1 and 2 double pack and have been having some trouble. I was wondering if some of the Thief players here could help me out.
First Ill start with the older thief game. So I installed them and everything but neither thief 1 or 2 would work, I just got a black screen and a "texture memory" error when I tried to start the first mission. I did some searching and used the "safe texture manager" fix for thief 2, and it worked great. But thief 1 has the same problem I had with thief 2, just a black screen when i try I start the training, but there is no safe texture fix for T1. I went on one of the Thief game forums and tried some of the fixes in the FAQs, like rolling back my nvidia drivers to the 8x.xx range which didn't work. I tried getting one of the fixed exe files on this site
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/media/patches/
but all it really did was just took away the cd-check and made the error box of "3d card does not report texture memory" go away instead now it's just a black screen and when I open the task manager it just says not responding. Then I tried getting the latest drivers from nvidia, 162.18 and they did not work. So basically to sum it up so far, I can't play Thief 1, but thief 2 works great with the "safe texture manager" fix. A bit aggravating considering there's a logo on it that says "Windows XP compatible" right on the game's front cover.
Now, onto Deadly Shadows. This one is a horrendous bug. First off, I am using the steam version (I had a retail copy but I lost it so I bought it on steam). Now I started it up and as it was loading the training mission my computer just randomly rebooted itself, when it got back to the desktop it said "windows has just recovered from a serious error" which was a windows stop error caused by something with the drivers. So I tried it again, this time I actually got into the training mission and played all the way through. But...I decided to close down the game to go eat breakfast so I got back to desktop and clicked on "My Computer" to go look for something, and boom, the computer rebooted again with no warning. I just double clicked on "My Computer' after exiting TDS and an immediate reboot just came out of nowhere. So basically, the reboot bug only occurs AFTER exiting the TDS program (or during loading of an area), if the comp reboots, the bug does not happen again unless it crashes again during loading, or after exiting the program.
I reinstalled my latest nvidia drivers and reinstalled the game but it kept doing the same thing. This bug does not happen on ANY other game that I have and I would really like to know how to fix this because I'm a bit annoyed that I spent $20 for something that has done nothing but crash my computer.
I should mention that I used to own Deadly Shadows hard copy, and it never did this. It was the same version as the steam one (1.1). I also had another bug caused by my Saitek USB keyboard, but some googleing helped me fix that quick. But I can't keep doing this, having my computer randomly reboot is not a good thing, so if I could get some quick help that would be great. Thanks
Specs:
Nvidia Geforce 6800 256 mb (latest drivers 162.18)
2 GB RAM
AMD Athlon 64 processor 3700+
Creative X-Fi sound card
I've just tried the latest Omega Nvidia drivers, both with and without the fixed Thief 1 .exe file and they did not work, I got the same bug. Also the Omega Drivers did NOT work with Thief 3 either, it crashed my computer again within seconds of loading the training mission and a windows error report shows this:
I also just reinstalled DirectX, and it did not fix these bugs. Also I did some searching and only found 2 references to my problem with Thief 3 Deadly Shadows..both of these people had nvidia cards so my best guess is that it has something to do with my graphics card.
Any helpful input would be great, thanks
First Ill start with the older thief game. So I installed them and everything but neither thief 1 or 2 would work, I just got a black screen and a "texture memory" error when I tried to start the first mission. I did some searching and used the "safe texture manager" fix for thief 2, and it worked great. But thief 1 has the same problem I had with thief 2, just a black screen when i try I start the training, but there is no safe texture fix for T1. I went on one of the Thief game forums and tried some of the fixes in the FAQs, like rolling back my nvidia drivers to the 8x.xx range which didn't work. I tried getting one of the fixed exe files on this site
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/media/patches/
but all it really did was just took away the cd-check and made the error box of "3d card does not report texture memory" go away instead now it's just a black screen and when I open the task manager it just says not responding. Then I tried getting the latest drivers from nvidia, 162.18 and they did not work. So basically to sum it up so far, I can't play Thief 1, but thief 2 works great with the "safe texture manager" fix. A bit aggravating considering there's a logo on it that says "Windows XP compatible" right on the game's front cover.
Now, onto Deadly Shadows. This one is a horrendous bug. First off, I am using the steam version (I had a retail copy but I lost it so I bought it on steam). Now I started it up and as it was loading the training mission my computer just randomly rebooted itself, when it got back to the desktop it said "windows has just recovered from a serious error" which was a windows stop error caused by something with the drivers. So I tried it again, this time I actually got into the training mission and played all the way through. But...I decided to close down the game to go eat breakfast so I got back to desktop and clicked on "My Computer" to go look for something, and boom, the computer rebooted again with no warning. I just double clicked on "My Computer' after exiting TDS and an immediate reboot just came out of nowhere. So basically, the reboot bug only occurs AFTER exiting the TDS program (or during loading of an area), if the comp reboots, the bug does not happen again unless it crashes again during loading, or after exiting the program.
I reinstalled my latest nvidia drivers and reinstalled the game but it kept doing the same thing. This bug does not happen on ANY other game that I have and I would really like to know how to fix this because I'm a bit annoyed that I spent $20 for something that has done nothing but crash my computer.
I should mention that I used to own Deadly Shadows hard copy, and it never did this. It was the same version as the steam one (1.1). I also had another bug caused by my Saitek USB keyboard, but some googleing helped me fix that quick. But I can't keep doing this, having my computer randomly reboot is not a good thing, so if I could get some quick help that would be great. Thanks
Specs:
Nvidia Geforce 6800 256 mb (latest drivers 162.18)
2 GB RAM
AMD Athlon 64 processor 3700+
Creative X-Fi sound card
I've just tried the latest Omega Nvidia drivers, both with and without the fixed Thief 1 .exe file and they did not work, I got the same bug. Also the Omega Drivers did NOT work with Thief 3 either, it crashed my computer again within seconds of loading the training mission and a windows error report shows this:
I also just reinstalled DirectX, and it did not fix these bugs. Also I did some searching and only found 2 references to my problem with Thief 3 Deadly Shadows..both of these people had nvidia cards so my best guess is that it has something to do with my graphics card.
Any helpful input would be great, thanks
(atleast with the dark project)
