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Kevin,

The skip_intro works.  I reinstalled the Indeo 5.06 and it didn't fix the
problem.  I'm going to try 5.11 and see.

I can live w/o the movies...

Thanks for the info.

"Kevin Goodsell" <good...@bridgernet.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:54:34 -0500, "Luke Winikates"
> <thisspaceintent...@null.com> wrote:
>
> >AMR wrote
> >> Hmmm... This is what I used (verbatim)
> >>
> >> G:\setup.exe -lgntforce
> >>
> >> When I start Thief 2 the screen goes blank as it would normally
> >> do and then kicks back out to the desktop.
> >
> >Weird.  I never had that problem.  What's your graphics card?
> >You could try telling XP to run T2 in compatibility mode for 98.
> >
>
> First, I'm not sure that switch is required with T2 (I don't recall
> using it in win2k).
>
> Second, the problem of immediately crashing back to the desktop is
> often a result of the videos not playing correctly. There is an easy
> way to check this. Open the file cam.cfg using notepad and add a line
> to the end of this file. The contents of this line should be
> "skip_intro" (without the quote marks). Save and close the file.
>
> Try to launch the game again. If you make it to the menu, try viewing
> the intro or credits. At that point, I suspect you'll crash back to
> the desktop again.
>
> If this goes as I predicted, you probably have a problem with the
> Intel Indeo codecs that are used to play the in-game movies. Possibly
> they are not installed at all.
>
> Put your Thief 2 disc in and look for a file called iv5play.exe. Run
> this to install the codecs. If it still doesn't work, you might try
> downloading and installing the latest version of the Indeo codecs
> (search the web).
>
> I once had a problem where the codecs seemed to be corrupted, but
> refused to re-install because they were already installed (why do
> people make installation programs do stupid things like that?). The
> solution to this was too complicated to explain in detail. Basically I
> had to track down the files for the codec and delete them (actually, I
> just renamed them), then run the installer. When I did this I actually
> deleted a few files that I shouldn't have, so I had to restore those
> after (I could tell because the installation didn't re-create those
> files).
>
> If you can't resolve the problem by fixing the codecs (or if it
> crashes without you ever seeing the menu, after adding skip_intro in
> cam.cfg), then my next suggestion is to reinstall DirectX. You might
> run through the tests in the DirectX Diagnostic tool first to see if
> it finds any problems. You can get to that by running dxdiag from the
> "Run" command in  your start menu.
>
> -Kevin