Reply With Quoteremember, you may need to restart the current mission by hitting the restart mission button in the menu after reinstalling/repatching.
Yes, good point. I did check that when I was troubleshooting mine. I checked the black doorway with each step I did, just to see what would fix it. After uninstalling HD Mod and installing T2Fix, the door was fixed. Then after installing HD Mod, thankfully the door was still fine
remember, you may need to restart the current mission by hitting the restart mission button in the menu after reinstalling/repatching.
I ran in the past hours different installation modes, from simply to advanced. Never there was a single point of change in the behavior of crash after start thief2.exe. With or without any mods - there is no solution in changing something with Mods.
I am now about to install Thief2 as fresh it can be.
After then I run T2fix only in the simple modus.
So I did it as I posted.
Fresh installation and after this I started "NewDark Graphics Settings" to adjust some details.
Nearly everything runs fine.
Only in the last played mission "1MIL_Recipe" the following terrible textures:
note that hdmod issues are better off posted in the hdmod topic.
That issue occurs because Recipe for Turmoil is a Thief Gold mission.
While I suppose the original issue you were facing is now a moot point, the fact that a blank main menu was briefly displayed prior to the game crashing points to the possibilities of the language being set improperly or perhaps missing resources.
The current version of the HD Mod does, in fact, overwrite any existing Thief 2 executable with the 1.26 release of NewDark. This is fairly problematic and will certainly break a few things, notably T2FMDML, as many of the DMLs that it includes rely on features introduced in NewDark 1.27. As a hopefully temporary measure to work around this, you can back up your mod configuration (located in cam_mod.ini), run T2Fix again after installing the HD Mod, and then restore your backed-up configuration. Alternatively, you could just back up the Thief 2 executable provided by T2Fix and restore it after installing the HD Mod.Originally Posted by Darkness_Falls
I appreciate the suggestion. Detecting and presenting the currently-installed game version in such a manner is an interesting idea and would be trivial to implement, though I wonder how many would find this beneficial. While the other information probably does not have a place in the installer itself to avoid further cluttering the interface, the first post can certainly be amended to include additional helpful information.PS: When I installed T2Fix 1.27d today, I was really hoping its install wizard would identify and tell me what version of New Dark I was currently on (since I wasn't exactly sure where to look at first), and have it ask me what I wanted to do; possibly with some guidance. For example, something like this:
* "You're on T2Fix and New Dark v1.26. If you proceed, 1.27 will be installed. No need to uninstall your earlier version of T2Fix or New Dark. Note: Any earlier custom T2Fix settings for water, sky, and New Dark (including captions/subtitles and blood decals) may be reset to defaults, so make a note of what you have and/or maybe make back-up copies of _these_files_(e.g., user.cfg)_. Want to proceed?" (or whatever guidance you feel is realistic to provide)
* Ideally, also saying to uninstall the HDMod first and re-install it afterward would be helpful, as that seemed to be necessary for me. (I had some HD graphics anomalies when I didn't uninstall it first (I had a black doorway leading out to where the pirate ship is in "Shipping & Receiving", and a very bright gamma main menu, for example.)) I'd understand if that's not feasible or desirable to add this note, though, given the number/types of mods people might have installed. Plus, I'm just one example. Maybe it works fine for everyone else to not uninstall it first.
OK, I looked at first the version of thief2.exe. It must be 1.27. Could that mean, that, after the new installation of Thief2, my only failure was to start the wrong FM (only for Thief Gold) ?
I try tomorrow a new step, your tipps in hand. Thank you!
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