Thief Gold locks up

[ike]

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I am running XP SP 2 and v1.37 of Thief Gold and have installed the
nVidia patch to prevent the black screen 3D bug. I have also tried
setting Thief.exe compatibility mode to Win NT SP 4. However, the game
freezes after a few seconds of game play and the only remedy is to
reboot. I do not have this problem with Thief or Thief II ( have not
tried since updating to SP 2). Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

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Ike wrote:
> I am running XP SP 2 and v1.37 of Thief Gold and have installed the
> nVidia patch to prevent the black screen 3D bug. I have also tried
> setting Thief.exe compatibility mode to Win NT SP 4. However, the game
> freezes after a few seconds of game play and the only remedy is to
> reboot. I do not have this problem with Thief or Thief II ( have not
> tried since updating to SP 2). Any suggestions?

Important information is missing: did Gold ever worked? What did you
change since the last time it worked? The patch? or SP2?

If you haven't run Gold before, ... you're not on a hyperthreaded
system? If you are, you probably need to tweak CPU affinity.

--
Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath

 

[ike]

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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:56:30 GMT Anders Thulin
<ath_no_spam_please@algonet.se> wrote :

>you probably need to tweak CPU affinity.

Bingo! That was it. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

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How do you "tweak CPU affinity"?
I have the same problem as Ike did.
Thanks

"Ike" <spamminator@spamminator.com> wrote in message
news:hngkq0d5ca1ap4kv8fv4a2tuo4dp4coead@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:56:30 GMT Anders Thulin
> <ath_no_spam_please@algonet.se> wrote :
>
>>you probably need to tweak CPU affinity.
>
> Bingo! That was it. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:37:05 -0500, "John Webb" <jwebb7@cox.net> wrote:

>How do you "tweak CPU affinity"?
>I have the same problem as Ike did.
>Thanks

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031

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Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

 

[Guest]

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John Webb wrote:
> How do you "tweak CPU affinity"?
> I have the same problem as Ike did.

There are several web sites that describe it: this just happens
to be the first one I found:

http://www16.brinkster.com/salvage/thief/darkengine.htm

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Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath