Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140727111634/@comment-3547390-20140727232837

Well, that is just because you were lucky. See, that fix reinstalls the Indeo codec. It has a tendency to get corrupted for some reason on newer Windows versions, mainly due to your media player. This means that it might work for a bit, something will happen, and it will stop working. So, yeah, it is no surprise that it worked and now doesn't work. What surprises me is that you made it through the two games without a single codec problem. Sometimes people have to install it every time they want to touch Thief (it is very frequent in mine so that I could only make it about a quarter of the way before having to get Garrettloader).

The Thief forums will just say to install Newdark or Tfix most of the time. That is their solution for everything these days. If you want to play in the vanilla version, you will need to reinstall the codecs. (actually, on viewing the FAQs, I was surprised that they hadn't changed this. Maybe Newdark wouldn't fix this problem).

But, the stuff I am seeing is to create .bat files and double click on them when the game no longer has working cutscenes. I don't know about you, but I don't want to even have to deal with a cutscene not playing in the first place.

Heh, it's okay. I advise you just follow my advice (well, who would have thought that one :P) and not try and do the batch files so you never have to worry about the problem again. Load it up in the FM loader, play the game fine. You need the loader anyway when playing FMs, so you are actually training yourself for when you want to play such FMs. Plus, like I said, it is all automatic so you never will notice the problem.