Thief ver 1.33 NO CD

[Waterdust]

What about this one for the paranoid people? - btw thanks cow, i been using august's release, didn't know they updated it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[Joe Forster/STA]

I've been downloading stuff from FileHippo for several months and, sometimes, checked it against the "genuine" download on the authors' sites. You shouldn't worry about stuff on FileHippo, it's the same as the real one. (The PC Games forum FAQ mentions both for DirectX.)

[Waterdust]

Be that as it may, I just thought I'd suggest throwing that up for such people.

Meantime.. @ cow - well I tested that out, it appears fine there, though the game speed
remains an issue along with the direct x error even with the updated DX files.

[Cowsheep]

Try one this tools for the speed issue:
http://www.sierrahelp.com/Utilities/...Utilities.html

Unrar this to your gamedir AND C:\Windows\System32

[Waterdust]

I'll make this shorter than I was gonna.. I kept sys32 as it was, put those new ones into
the game dir (it's a long story as to why so don't ask) an nothing had changed, however
I did notice that I was finally able to turn on "hardware mode" inside the game.. now I'm
not sure without reinstalling the game all over again an repeating the fix one file at a time
(it's my method.. dun ask) until fully done.

However the game speed issue is now fixed be it in part to the new files.. or some other
reason I'm entirely unaware of. All that remains is the DX error which appears to have no
impact on the game anyways.. so I'm not sure what you wanna do from here.

(Bearing in mind hardware mode used to also cause our original crash at one point
and yes before someone asks I've been testing that option each time up till now.)

I'm gonna run some more of my own tests later when I have some more time though.

[Cowsheep]

http://fileforums.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=123

The files here have some graphic improvements included, the game is generally much sharper.

[Waterdust]

Those files don't change anything with hardware mode off however the game screen
shows some sort of "the screen mode you chose couldn't be used" sort of message.

Enabling hardware mode on like before just makes the game go black an all you can
see are the health icons (with those files).

[Cowsheep]

You must play without improvements then:http://www.thief-thecircle.com/download.asp?fid=726

[Waterdust]

I agree that's the only way to make it work.

I suppose now all that's left is a full start to finish test run =) we'll see what happens
an I'll report my findings but I'm sure your confident in your work cow =p what could
go wrong with it now right? ^.~ lol..

Anyways it's up to you if you wanna try to kill off the annoying DX error, it appears
to have no effect on anything up to this point so yeah.

These are the files I'm using, the texture fix exe supplied and your mod'd various other files
you can check them out here. (Disabled by me)

I wrote my own lil read me file for my archives, I've no intentions of passing it out
but you can decide on that. If the game plays thru fully without error I'd like to say
someone should throw it up somewhere for other people as that was the purpose
of this entire thing was so that others could enjoy having the platinum edition work
without a CD.

You'll notice the lil readme I made gives you an the thief site credit =)

[Waterdust]

After quite sometime I finished going thru the game start to finish. However it's time
to note that cut scenes don't always play if at all an the ending cut scene doesn't
launch either. The direct x error that states I should at least have version 6 installed
still keeps poping up with each launch also.

Otherwise the game appears to "play" fairly well. I'm sure at this point no one
is interested in resolving these few issues.. which is a shame.. oh and I should also
point out that if one uninstalls the game an reinstalls it for the purpose of running it
back off the cd to allow cut scenes to operate normally & remove the direct x error
forget it.. even if you remove the extra files for making the no-cd work an reboot
5x an/or not clear up registry issues that still won't change anything for it.

My thanks still go out to cowsheep for helping as he appears retired now.

[Cowsheep]

Thats a missaunderstading, im still here.
Try this.

You have a movies dir in your game folder, right?
Any codec packs installed?

[Waterdust]

As requested - [Disabled by me]

[Cowsheep]

Try this, unrar all to gamedir.

[Waterdust]

"Resolution in cam.cfg doesn't match that given in ddfix.ini"

My version of the file should you need it.

[Cowsheep]

Fixed cam.cfg