Posted December 30, 2009
Weclock
The Creeper
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
prakaa
"Large Talons?"
Registered: Jul 2009
From Australia
Posted December 30, 2009
Hmm Thief sorta looks like a FPS stealth, especially with all the fast movements...
Andy_Panthro
Not the Avatar
Registered: Oct 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted December 30, 2009
Hmm... I have this collection, and was immensely frustrated to find it didn't work in Vista, despite what it says on the back of the box.
May have to try that DDFIX thing though. I have a quad-core, I'm assuming it will require the same fix.
For the benefit of those with win7, would you need the same fix?
May have to try that DDFIX thing though. I have a quad-core, I'm assuming it will require the same fix.
For the benefit of those with win7, would you need the same fix?
Datajack2050
Om nom nom
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted December 30, 2009
Eh, it still worked tho :P
I gave up with Linux shortly thereafter. Too complex for my tastes.
Warmdrink
PGP 30E698EA
Registered: Dec 2008
From Canada
Posted December 31, 2009
That's what it is.
May have to try that DDFIX thing though. I have a quad-core, I'm assuming it will require the same fix.
For the benefit of those with win7, would you need the same fix?
Yep, same fix. In fact I wrote that guide from Win7 anyway. The same fix will work on XP, Vista, 95...
Narakir
Rebel Scum
Registered: Mar 2009
From Switzerland
Posted January 04, 2010
Anyone know if there's a way to get proper text files for these game in order to translate them in English ? I bought the pack for ~10$ in Poland, believing it was in English or that there will be a language option during installation. But it wasn't and my polish is too basic to have any hope to even understand mission objectives...
Warmdrink
PGP 30E698EA
Registered: Dec 2008
From Canada
Posted January 04, 2010
From: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83801
"To see the French, Italian, German or Spanish texts in the game, edit your (Thief3)/System/Default.ini. There is a section called "Locale" around line 829 where you can comment out the line "Language=english" [Place a ; in front of it] and uncomment your target language [remove the ;]. Note: to actually save your changes, remove Default.ini's write protection."
That works for Thief 3 at least, but I don't know about the other games. I'll have a look for you.
Edit: I've looked at Thief Gold / 2 and I've found the "language" line in the install.cfg file. Open install.cfg and change "polish" to "english".
However, my copy only included English. You can check what languages your install has by renaming the file "strings.crf" to "strings.zip" and opening it as a normal Zip file. Remember to change it back to .zip once you're finished. (Go to folder options and untick "Hide extensions for known file types"). If there is an "ENGLISH" folder within that file, your game should support English. If not, then there's not much I can do.
Post edited January 04, 2010 by TheJoe
Arkose
sunglasses at night
Registered: Dec 2008
From New Zealand
Posted January 04, 2010
"To see the French, Italian, German or Spanish texts in the game, edit your (Thief3)/System/Default.ini. There is a section called "Locale" around line 829 where you can comment out the line "Language=english" [Place a ; in front of it] and uncomment your target language [remove the ;]. Note: to actually save your changes, remove Default.ini's write protection."
That works for Thief 3 at least, but I don't know about the other games. I'll have a look for you.
Unfortunately that's unlikely to work; Polish and Russian localisations are typically done by replacing all other languages rather than just adding to them. :(
Narakir
Rebel Scum
Registered: Mar 2009
From Switzerland
Posted January 04, 2010
"To see the French, Italian, German or Spanish texts in the game, edit your (Thief3)/System/Default.ini. There is a section called "Locale" around line 829 where you can comment out the line "Language=english" [Place a ; in front of it] and uncomment your target language [remove the ;]. Note: to actually save your changes, remove Default.ini's write protection."
That works for Thief 3 at least, but I don't know about the other games. I'll have a look for you.
Edit: I've looked at Thief Gold / 2 and I've found the "language" line in the install.cfg file. Open install.cfg and change "polish" to "english".
However, my copy only included English. You can check what languages your install has by renaming the file "strings.crf" to "strings.zip" and opening it as a normal Zip file. Remember to change it back to .zip once you're finished. (Go to folder options and untick "Hide extensions for known file types"). If there is an "ENGLISH" folder within that file, your game should support English. If not, then there's not much I can do.
Post edited January 04, 2010 by Narakir
Warmdrink
PGP 30E698EA
Registered: Dec 2008
From Canada
Posted January 04, 2010
That's troubling. I'll spend some time looking through how languages really work in Thief and I'll see if I can send you some of the files. I won't send the whole .crf archive, you'll have to rename it/them to .zip and insert the strings yourself (probably legal that way).