Hi there. I bought Thief 3 while it was on promo and tried it last night. It runs but the gameplay is very choppy and the framerate is low. I don't really understand why this is happening considering the laptop I was playing on surpass the requirements of the game.

Laptop specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
1.8Ghz dual-core Athlon
256MB Geforce 7000M
2GB RAM

Is there anyway I can fix this problem? I really want to play this game. Thanks.

"surpassing the minimum requirements" does not equal "smooth gameplay". your hardware is not up to the task, as simple as that (especially the butchered down graphics card).

try the latest update, it might gain you some fps.. or not. http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138607

Alright thanks.

I just tried this game on my 1.6Ghz Atom, 128MB Intel graphics, 1GB RAM netbook. The game runs better on that than it does on my laptop which is ridiculous...

I think it's to do with the graphics, a 7000M graphics card is not the beefiest, and Intel graphics vary a lot in quality so we'd need to know exactly what type they are. But at least it's working. If you get it to work at all on laptops, then that's a good thing - the original customer support didn't support installation on laptops at all...