Sneaky Upgrade: Unofficial patch for Thief 3

[lowenz]

In borderless mode NO, it's why it has been introduced
But of course you can set the max frame rate to 60, just to consume less power.

[Axx83_]

Did anyone make it work in Linux using Lutris? I tried this official installer as well https://lutris.net/games/thief-deadly-shadows/ but when it runs sneaky upgrade nothing happens, it gets stuck somewhere. I'm on Ubuntu 23.04.

[snobel]

I tried it myself - on Ubuntu 22.04. It went like this:

• Installed Lutris from the repo
• Installed the game (without mods) from GOG via Lutris
• Ran it once to make sure the registry values were set up
• Used Lutris' "run exe inside Wine prefix" function to install the SU 1.1.10 (with all-default options)
• Ran the game from Lutris - crashed
• Opened Bash through Lutris, navigated to the game's System folder and ran "wine T3.exe" - game ran fine
• Restarted Lutris - now the game runs fine from there too

[Pachira]

Can't change brightness in borderless mode, is there a fix/something I missed?

[snobel]

There's no fix for that. Brightness is changed using a D3D function which is tied to a hardware feature and which affects the whole display. So in windowed mode it would change brightness for everything on your desktop.

[lowenz]

Can't change brightness in borderless mode, is there a fix/something I missed?

Just use crosire d3d8to9 + reshade
But the default is fine.

[Pachira]

There's no fix for that. Brightness is changed using a D3D function which is tied to a hardware feature and which affects the whole display. So in windowed mode it would change brightness for everything on your desktop.

Ah yeah, I know what you mean. Call of Duty 1 has that issue too sorta.

Just use crosire d3d8to9 + reshade
But the default is fine.

Thanks, that works good for me.

[snobel]

Four years and change since the last release, a new version is finally ready. A couple of new tweaks and some fixes but the vast majority of the work went into Thief 3 Gold - see the separate post linked below.

If things work out, the actual release will happen around 1 SeptemberOctober.
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This beta (mirror) has the following changes relative to 1.1.10:

The code patch and installer:

• New tweak to auto-equip the blackjack instead of the dagger when you click attack with no weapon selected. (On by default in the MP)
• New 'no idle breathing' tweak
• A new tweaker page for difficulty settings - more fine-grained control
• For new installations of the SU, two quicksaves will now be used. Also, clear-text savegame names by default
• The Options screen multisampling slider now shows "OK" for the settings that are actually valid, and the full range of 16 values is available
• The 'Lower res while using mouselook' option is now off by default for all installs, to allow depth buffer calculations with ReShade >= 4.8.0
• 'Direct load' is now off by default. (Could cause crashes during quickload)
• Press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+End in any order to end the current mission. (Previously, End had to be pressed last)
• Fix for the option to disable gamepad phantom input. (Config key mismatch)
• Fix for the jerky camera when exiting unpaused reading mode
• Fix for the installer almost always replacing a local d3d8.dll. Should now leave a manually installed DLL alone
• Fix for SneakyTweaker going into an endless loop when the Installed Mods folder was empty
• Updated the bundled d3d8to9 DLL to commit a1f11b3e
• It is now possible to set up a self-contained and portable install (but no installer support yet)

Thief 3 Gold:

• Please see this post

Collective Texture Pack:

• New option to disable textures specific to the training mission - for completeness, all textures can now be disabled

The Fonts mod:

• Fix for the tweaker always showing individual font textures as enabled on startup

[lowenz]

You're DA MAN!

[Csimbi]

Four years and change since the last release, a new version is finally ready.

Well done, thank you!

[FenPhoenix]

• It is now possible to set up a self-contained and portable install (but no installer support yet)

Will this affect the location of SneakyOptions.ini? Or will it still always be located at the path specified in HKLM/Software/Ion Storm/Thief - Deadly Shadows/SaveGamePath?

[snobel]

A portable install will ignore the registry completely but the Options folder is then always in the root of the game install. From the SU readme:

As of 1.1.11, a second options file, Sneaky.ini can be placed in the System folder in the game install,
containing the following:

[Install]
IgnoreSaveGamePath=True

This will make the game ignore also the SaveGamePath registry value and instead expect to find the Options,
SaveGames* and ScreenShots* folders in the root of the game install. Installed mods and FMs can be moved
here too, by changing two lines in SneakyOptions.ini to "InstallPath=..\Installed FMs" and "InstallPath=..\
Installed Mods" respectively. This makes the install portable.
To also move FM archives into the install, Place them in a subfolder, e.g. "FanMissions" and replace a line in
fmsel.ini in the Installed FMs folder with "ArchiveRoot=..\FanMissions"

It should be possible to set up the paths from the installer Edit: Not really. But you can provide the absolute paths for easier manual editing later.

[FenPhoenix]

Oops, missed the beta link. Thanks for pointing out the new info. I'll add support to AngelLoader for this.