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Title: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: Azazel on February 15, 2008, 07:19:15 PM
So I finally got around to giving this thing a run, only to find that it crashes approximately every minute on my 8800. So instead of a BiiF, we have a quick question here to see if anyone has managed to run it on a modern PC?



Title: Re: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: acerogue26 on February 15, 2008, 08:59:56 PM
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031

It's a hyperthreading issue. None of the Thief games like it, and it's a fairly complicated hack to fix, but this is the place to learn how to do it.


Title: Re: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: Azazel on February 15, 2008, 11:08:00 PM
Thanks for the link.  :-)

Now I need someone like Trippy or CMLancas to tell me WTF the second option here
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/
means in English, and if it's what I want to do to my computer.



Title: Re: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: Murgos on February 16, 2008, 06:24:44 AM
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/start-an-application-assigned-to-a-specific-cpu-in-windows-vista/

Little simpler if you have Vista.


Title: Re: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: Tairnyn on February 16, 2008, 07:54:04 AM
Thanks for the link.  :-)

Now I need someone like Trippy or CMLancas to tell me WTF the second option here
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/
means in English, and if it's what I want to do to my computer.


The second option is a hack for the game files that forces them into single processor mode when running instructions. It shouldn't do anything to your computer since it's only being run on the files and doesn't make any changes to your system. After you make the change the game should work transparently.


Title: Re: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: lesion on February 16, 2008, 10:05:45 AM
I'm glad that's sorted

I was ready to flip out and kill everyone in this thread


Title: Re: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: cmlancas on February 16, 2008, 11:13:23 AM
Yeah, I think Murgos's link about covers it. Also, isn't there a way in control panel->advanced properties->.... to turn off a core and only run single core?


Title: Re: Thief II: The Fail Age
Post by: NowhereMan on February 18, 2008, 02:42:58 AM

I was ready to flip out and kill everyone in this thread

I'm glad I'm not in this thread. Oh wait!

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