🚀 go-pugleaf

I grabbed Indeo off Ligos and what I got from there worked.

You da man...
"AMR" <route...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uni47bis35tg2f@corp.supernews.com...
> 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
> news:ajddnucsnvce6u7c9pmknitks7ocuf614r@4ax.com...
> > 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
>
>