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On 9/29/2012 4:21 PM, rms wrote:
> JJ wrote:
>> Just to clarify, are we/they saying that this patch (which
>> costs...nothing?)
>> will let us play Thief on a contemporary PC (such as the Dell XPS >>
>> laptop. I'm using here)?
>
> Yep!  Mind you, I haven't tried it yet myself, but it looks like the
> real deal.

I tried it yesterday and it worked great, on Thief 1! Even though the
patch is officially (or unofficially..) for Thief 2, support for the
first game in the series is also there.

You need to install the base game and the last official patch.
Alternatively you can get the game from GoG, which is what I did making
use of the great promotional deals this weekend. The GoG version is
fully updated to begin with.

Once the game is installed and updated, you need to make the following
changes:

1) Unzip the patch and copy the *contents* of "contrib.zip" and
"new_dark.zip" wherever Thief 1 is installed.
2) Create a directory "patch" where Thief 1 is installed.
3) Unzip a file T1.7z present in new_dark/doc folder, and copy the file
interface.crf to the patch directory created in step 2.
4) In main Thief 1 folder, edit the file cam_ext.cfg and add a line
"dark1" (without the quotes) anywhere.
5) Run Thief2.exe binary (should be in main Thief 1 directory, after you
copy new_dark contents), and you'll see Thief1 using this new updated
engine.

Updating Thief 2 is of course much simpler. You need the base game,
updated with official V1.18 patch. Then just copy the contrib.zip and
new_dark.zip contents into Thief 2 main folder.
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Noman