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Started by Geneve
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:39
Thief 2 / EVGA 8600 / Video woes in game
Author: Geneve
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:39
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:39
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Hello, I am having troubles with the game now that I added a EVGA 8600 GTS nvidia card. The graphics on the first two screens are ok but when I enter the level that is when things look bad. I see a lot of black. See game level called 'A Brawl in the Tombs' for specific reference please. I am in Windows XP Home, One gig of ram. Video card has 512 megs. DX9 is installed. Quicktime free player 7 is installed and working. I went to microsoft and had them scan for the latest updates. I am using the drivers that came on the cd for the video card. The card has been plugged in the system a whole 3 days so its that new so to speak. In the level I see massive amounts ofblack and green. The only time when thing start to look like some thing is when I am near the soldiers or zombies. If I camera down at the tomb floor with nothing nearby all I see is black floors and black walls with pieces of dark green here and there. I just dont know what to do about this. I am disapointed that I might have to deleted thief 2 on my system. :( Any one out there know any thing about his ? -- "If confused why this or that is going on." "I suggest you go to http://www.timdoc.com"
Re: Thief 2 / EVGA 8600 / Video woes in game
Author: Les Matthew
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:25
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:25
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Geneve wrote: > Hello, I am having troubles with the game now that I added a EVGA 8600 GTS > nvidia card. > > The graphics on the first two screens are ok but when I enter the level that > is when things look bad. > > I see a lot of black. > Read this: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031#texturememory may be relevant to your problem les...
Re: Thief 2 / EVGA 8600 / Video woes in game
Author: Darin Johnson
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:43
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:43
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This may be due to a known problem with the Nvidia 8600 series with Thief 2 and System Shock 2. The "new" video cards have dropped support for 16-bit color (being optimized for games released in the last 30 minutes than for compatibility). This page may help: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117616 Or hunt around for similar discussions on the web. I couldn't use the fix for System Shock 2 because everything ran so slow, so I put up with horrible colors instead, but it might work better for Thief 2 since that's what it was designed for. People have claimed fog isn't working right or is too slow. -- Darin Johnson
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