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How to get Thief - The Dark Project and Thief - Gold Edition working on new computers
Version 1.1 - Last Updated May 23rd 2009
Welcome. This guide will help you get Thief 1/Thief Gold running on your computer in less then 15 minutes.
Installing The Game Installing the 1.33 Patch (Thief - The Dark Project Only, NOT Thief Gold) Thief.exe and DromEd.exe files Modifying INSTALL.CFG CRF Files Processor Affinity (Stops Thief Gold freezing when playing) Enabling EAX Enabling EAX in Windows Vista (Realtek Onboard Sound) Enabling EAX in Windows Vista (Creative Sound Card) DDFix Dark Widescreen Mod Modifying CAM.CFG Changing Resolution In Game Movies Not Playing

Installing The Game	Top
First of all. You need the Thief Gold CD. Pirated Versions are NOT supported by this guide. If you really value the game, you'd go out and buy it! Insert the Install CD 1 in the Drive but don't install quite yet. Go into D:\ or whatever letter your CD Drive is, Right click on Setup.exe and Set up the Compatibility to Windows 98. This avoids Thief from not installing due to a compatibility issue back in 1998 with NT systems.Go ahead and install Thief Gold. This tutorial will assume that you are installing to "C:\Games\Thief Gold" but you can install it wherever you like, just substitute the directory above for your own directory. Do a FULL INSTALL of the game.Now, with Thief Gold installed. Open CD1 again in Explorer. go into GOODIES/DROMED and find DROMED.ZIP
Extract the Contents of this Zip file into your Thief Gold installation overwriting any files it finds. All is going well, now Thief Gold should be installed successfully.

Installing the 1.33 Patch (Thief - The Dark Project Only, NOT Thief Gold)	Top
If you are installing Thief - The Dark Project, please update the game to 1.33 now. Thief - The Dark Project 1.33 Patch

Thief.exe and DromEd.exe files	Top
Next, we need to overwrite the Thief.exe and DromEd.exe files that are in the Thief Gold installation. Thief New EXE - DromEd New EXE Put these files into your Thief Directory overwriting the old ones. These help correct errors on newer computers with ATI and nVidia cards.

Modifying INSTALL.CFG	Top
Open your Install.cfg file with Notepad located in the Thief Gold directory (Right Click on the file and click Open With... Select Notepad and click OK). It should look something like this. cd_path D:\ install_path C:\Games\Thief Gold language english resname_base C:\Games\Thief Gold+E:\thief load_path C:\Games\Thief Gold+E:\thief script_module_path C:\Games\Thief Gold+E:\thief movie_path C:\Games\Thief Gold\movies+E:\thief\movies Change it so that it looks like something a long the lines of the following. install_path C:\Games\Thief Gold language english resname_base C:\Games\Thief Gold\CRFs load_path C:\Games\Thief Gold script_module_path C:\Games\Thief Gold movie_path C:\Games\Thief Gold\movies Save the file and close it.

CRF Files	Top
In the Thief Gold directory are lots of .CRF files. These contain information that the game uses such as Textures, Music, Sounds, Voices etc. To make the game more 'Mod Friendly', we shall move these files into their own directory. Create a new folder in the Thief Gold directory and call it "CRFs". Find all of the files that have the file extension CRF and move them into that folder.

Processor Affinity (Stops Thief Gold freezing when playing)	Top
Chances are you are using a processor that has more then one Core inside it. If you were to launch Thief Gold now and run around. It would probably freeze after a few seconds or minutes of Game play. There are 2 ways of dealing with this problem and they are easy to do. Method 1 I have made this Process Affinity Changer which you can download below. Processor Affinity Changer for Thief Gold All you need to do with it is put the contents of the 7Zip file into the Thief Gold installation and run the BAT file. When it's done. Close the BAT window. Method 2 Download and install GarrettLoader. This tool will automatically set processor affinities for all your Thief games once it finds them. Method 3 DDFix allows you to set Processor Affinity for Thief. DDFix is discussed further down the page.

Enabling EAX	Top
This part requires that you have a sound card or some sound device that can handle EAX effects in games. EAX DLL files Put these two files inside your Thief Gold directory. Later, in the main menu, you can enable EAX effects in the Options menu!

Enabling EAX in Windows Vista (Realtek Onboard Sound)	Top
Software called Realtek SoundBack allows you to regain lost EAX functionality in Thief. Realtek SoundBack Page Install this and follow the instructions it gives you to get everything working.

Enabling EAX in Windows Vista (Creative Sound Card)	Top
This part requires that you have a Creative Sound Card. First, grab the files in the Enabling EAX section above and put them in the Thief Gold directory. Windows Vista handles sound differently. Old games will not have the ability to have EAX enabled because Microsoft removed DirectSound from Vista. DirectSound allowed EAX to work. Fortunately, Creative have created software called Creative ALchemy. This software allows OpenGL sound to be translated back into DirectSound. Creative ALchemy Homepage Depending on what card you have, Download the relative software and add Thief.exe to the list. Once you have done that, the software will automatically pick up on when you start the game and will begin translating!

DDFix	Top
Now, things become a little more advanced from here on in. You will need to download DDFixM.7z from one of the two links below. Timeslip's Website -- 1.3.11, My Website -- 1.3.11. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you get the Manual version. It's a lot easier to work with. My website hosts the Manual Version. Extract all files into your Thief Gold installation. Open DDFIX.INI and you'll be faced with a number of options. These options are important to get the game working properly. I will run through my personal options because I found them the most reliable. [Main] ;Screen resolution ;Must be 800x600 or greater gWidth=800 gHeight=600 You can set this to whichever screen resolution. If you want a different resolution like 1024 x 768 then change the corresponding numbers after the =. However, make sure that your CAM.CFG says the same resolution as you put here. This will be explained in more depth later. ;Set to 1 to fix the duel core related crash MultiCoreFix=1 This is the DDFix Method 3 for Multi core Machines. Best to have it on 1 for all Dark Engine Games. ;Set to 1 to automatically register lgvid.ax each time thief is started up VideoFix=1 1 is recommended as it will register the codecs the game requires to play FMV's on startup. ;This can be set to zero to get a more accurate z-buffer ;Doesn't usually make a noticable difference to picture quality UseCompatibleZBuffer=1 1 should be on by default. Personally, any other number crashes the game on starting a mission but it could be different for you. ;Turns on the 32 bit texture loader and adds support for some unsupported screen resolutions ;Will cause a crash if used with an unsupported exe ; 0 - Disable ; 1 - Determine exe automatically ; 2 - Thief 2 v1.18 Thief2Extensions=1 For Thief Gold. This should be left at 1. ;Set to 1 to disable the windows keys while thief is running DisableWindowsKey=0 ;Set to 1 to enable anisotropic filtering AnisotropicFiltering=0 ;If you want to share overriden textures between thief installations, uncomment the next line ;It should contain the absolute path to the equivilent of \res\ddfix, including the trailing \ ;TexturePath=C:\Games\Thief2\res\ddfix\ I personally left the first at 0, AF to 1 and left the TexturePath option alone but, again, it's down to you to decide what you want. ;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ;XX Compatibility settings XX ;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ;Changes the way direct writes to the frontbuffer are handled ;SS2 players should set these options to '2' and '0xf81f' respectively ;Thief 2 players with corrupted in game text should use '2' and '0x0000' ;Players who experience slowdown with UseSysMemOverlay=2 should set both options to 0 UseSysMemOverlay=2 OverlayColourKey=0xf81f I left this option alone from its default. Thief Gold seemed happy to run with these settings.

Dark Widescreen Mod	Top
If you are one of those lucky punters with a Widescreen monitor. You would see that the screen, when playing the game, is very stretched. Recently, a mod was released that enables Widescreen support in Thief Gold, Thief 2 and System Shock 2. It is easily installable and removable. There is a link below that will take you to the Dark Widescreen mod website. Dark Widescreen (Version 6v3r3rc3 Latest) My Website (Version 6v3r3rc3) Extract the contents of this ZIP file into your Thief Gold installation and run the BAT file. The instructions are easy to follow and you'll be done with the process in under a minute or so. Make sure you set the resolution to the same numbers you entered into your DDFIX.INI file.

Modifying CAM.CFG	Top
Open CAM.CFG with Notepad (Just like you did with INSTALL.CFG) and you will see something like this: Add these two lines to the bottom of the document: Always_Play_Intro Skip_Starting_Checks Now the document will look something like this: Keep this document open for the final step.

Changing Resolution	Top
If you haven't from the last step covered. Open CAM.CFG with Notepad and find a line called game_screen_size. You'll see two numbers next to that line (default is 640 480). You can change these numbers to match what is in your DDFIX.INI file. If you set DDFIX.INI up to look like this: gWidth=1440 gHeight=900 Then change game_screen_size 640 480 to game_screen_size 1440 900.

In Game Movies Not Playing	Top
Download the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack from CodecGuide.com This is a pack of codecs that allow you to play movie files on your PC. This pack has something called ffdshow which handles the playback of Thief Gold's AVI files which are encoded with Indeo codec technology (which is very old and unsupported nowadays).

That's It!	Top
OK, you should now have a fully working copy of Thief Gold. It can now be played on Windows XP/Windows Vista in glorious widescreen! Here are some pictures of the first mission in 1680x1050 I took after following my own guide.



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