Hi all,

I had no problems with cutscenes not playing during my playthrough of Thief Gold and the beginning of Thief 2. After the mission "First City Bank and Trust" of Thief 2, however, I started to notice that the game skipped a) the "Success" cutscene and b) the cutscene that's supposed to tell you what the next mission is all about. I just got thrown into the shop for the next mission and that's it. This has not been the case for all of the following missions, but for most of them and it hurts the immersion badly.

Does anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong? The video files exist in the game's folder, that I checked, but somehow the game won't play them. Any help much appreciated...

Have you already tried running the game as Administrator? (right-click the game's start icon => Run as ..) Maybe, when the videos worked, you were running it as Admin before e.g. by starting the game from the installer.

Yep, the game always runs with Admin rights and I have always started it that way (i.e. desktop launcher). The behaviour I described above was/is happening during the same gaming session(s). Some cutscenes play while others don't...