Titan Quest (Use this thread only! Do not start another Thread!)

[BarryB]

Seems it's a DEV c0ck up, from the Silentgate nfo:

                           S p e c i a l  N o t e s
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  Titan Quest Engine crashes sometimes because of the following reason:
  The engine.dll uses multithread technic which means 2-5 processes use the
  same mem address. This means loading sfx and loading gfx goes to same 
  memory address and sometimes this leads to that they get mixed and then
  crash because the unpacker module is NOT designed for multithread.
                                       ^^^
  So no matter what they claim in Support Forum the crack is fine and 
  working smooth.
 
  Tested Proper Systems:  AMD 2400         2gb ram gf5600 agp
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  AMD 3000       512mb ram gf6600 agp
                          Pentium D 3466   2gb ram gf7900 pcie
                          P4 3600          1gb ram gf7800 pcie
 
  Game Finished with:     Pentium D 3466   2gb ram gf7900 pcie
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
  Troubles we had with retail dvd and crack:
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Troubles are freezing or crashes when leaving a quest fight or a cave.
 
                          AMD 2800         1gb ram ati9950 agp
                          AMD 64 3400      1GB ram gf7800  pcie
                          P4 2800        512mb ram ati9000 agp
 
  Best solution extract the bigfiles before start the game:
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  Be sure to have about 20GB free on the HDD where u installed Titan Quest.
  Go to commandline change into your titan quest install dir and do:
 
  ..\archivetool fonts.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Creatures.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Effects.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool InGameUI.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Items.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Levels.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Lights.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Menu.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool OutGameElements.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Particles.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Quests.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool SceneryBabylon.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool SceneryEgypt.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool SceneryGreece.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool SceneryOlympus.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool SceneryOrient.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Shaders.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool System.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool TerrainTextures.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool UI.arc -extract "installdir\resources"
  ..\archivetool Underground.arc -extract "installdir\resources"

Needs a patch methinks!!