Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5557418-20131202044007/@comment-1915529-20131207182044

I doubt resolution has anything to do with it. But then I can't think why apart from one thing. When I changed the background to what it is now it took a week for it to actually change on my pc. However on another pc it had already changed. For whatever reason I can only assume the changes made take different amounts of time to finalize on different systems (browsers? os?) but I can't be sure.

The only problem with my theory is that the background is much different to edits to the main page. Changing the width of boxes is no different to adding a line of text to any other page.

On Thief I am reading forums where people have managed to play the game without fail once but subsequent times see the game freezing and crashing. This is not the first game I've played where I've had to work around glitches regardless of whether it is because of my OS, graphics card, cpu and so on... The forums were less than useless but thankfully I believe I have found away to work around the problems with Thief.

For both your benefits for the time when you play Thief again, I will list what problems I have faced. It is rather funny that although you guys are Thief Veterans, I am more of a pro than you when it comes to playing Thief on modern OS. Using the least meaning on the word pro :(

Bear in mind that I am playing it on Windows 7.

Glitch 1- Game crashing to desktop (the only time this has happened is when I entered the room with loads of painting)

Glitch 2- Pressing continue on the mission complete screen to start the new mission resulting in game crashing to desktop.

Solution- It appears both glitches 1 and 2 are due to a corrupted save file. Both glitches took place on one save file (my latest one), however when I loaded a different save file none of these glitches happened. It is my way of working that I create many save files as I go along in the event I save during a wrong moment, save after I have stuffed myself or in this case, a save file is corrupted. All I can say is to make backups every few minutes. That way no matter when you reach a glitch, you can go back to a save a mere few minutes before meaning you won’t loose much progress.

Glitch 3- The game freezing or not even loading. Thankfully the forums were helpful on this and I have mentioned the solution of this before.

Solution- Thief does not like multiple cores and as I have said my PC has quadcore. To get around this follow these basic instructions. 1) Open the Thief.exe and go no further than the main menu. 2) Press Alt-Tab or Windows to get to the desktop. 3) Open the task manager and go to the processed tab. 4) Find Thief.exe in the list and right click. 5) Click on ‘set affinity’ and deselect all but 1 core. 6) Close task manager and click the Thief tab to return to the game.

I realise that neither of you sound like you will be playing Thief anytime soon but this thread can be our glitch guide. I adore this game just as much as Dark Forces and Quake. I will not let some stupid fucking technical issues stop me from playing. I will now be able to play the prison level, wish me luck.

Following on from my guide to getting around glitches, feel free to add your own guides to sort out problems you may have experienced in the past.

Windows 7 is superb. So is Windows 8. Hear me out if you have bad views for W8 based on what you’ve heard.

Windows 8 is getting bad press because it is more Tablet-Focused. However Windows 8 does have a traditional desktop mode that works and feels like Windows 7. There is software called Start8 that gives you a proper Start button with Windows 7 style Start menu (W7 trumps even XP in this and many other areas). So now my laptop works and feels just like Windows 7 but with the added speed that comes with Windows 8.

The only 2 things Windows 7 has above 8 is a lower price and gaming. 8 will be more expensive so it depends if that is important to you. When I say gaming the only game I’ve had trouble with is the Dark Forces expansion pack Mystery of the Sith. I have tried very old few games on 8 and most of them work. Needless to say modern games work fine. I have not tried Quake but Jedi Knight works. As time goes on I will try loading more games (mostly old) and I will keep note which games work and which don’t. However I don’t think it will be a big issue. I may load Quake just to find out if it does work.

Hope this has been helpful.