Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20161116194210/@comment-3547390-20161228163848

Heh, listen to my videos. I think I make a good Abe Simpson.

Hey, I told you we are doing it today. Unless something unexpected happens at the last moment like yesterday. In which case we won't. Simple, right? But, yeah, I expect things to go well today. I don't feel exhausted like I did yesterday.

Indeed. Nobody will know Call of Duty, but everyone will know every terrible level in Q2. No year after 1996 existed. Watch, if there was an apocalypse, as everyone realizes they are out of toner. I mean, imagine a society build solely on my insane ramblings. They will worship Q2 as being one of the few games to have ever existed! That senile rant above would be one of their Psamlms. I think society would have reason to panic...

EDIT: Windows 7 vs Windows 8, Test 1, Installing Thief 1

Thief 1 is a pain in the butt game to install and was already quite shaky on Windows XP, so this means both OS could have great struggles in dealing with it.

Windows 7 - Scary message, but I get something about Direct3d not working since I am in Safe Mode or something. I insert the disk. My familiarity with the OS helps quite a bit, meaning it is easy to select the autorun program with no struggle. Of course, upon loading it I find myself face to face with a frozen screen. This doesn't look promising, but I wait it out and eventually get a message about Shockwave Player. Upon installing it, the setup responds immediately. I click to install the game... setup freezes. Luckily I can load the setup directly from inside the CD folder. The terms take a second to appear, but nothing else abnormal occurs. I get told I need DirectX 6. Thief starts up in a ridiculously tiny window, but is working. I quit. I try starting it again. It crashes. Rebooting does nothing. Well then. Install Directx Runtime. Still fails. Figure out how to install Direct3d in a VM. Still fails.

Windows 8 - I insert the disk. My unfamiliarly with the OS means that while a giant pop-up appears that should be easy to select, I have trouble getting my VM mouse over there. This is probably due to the fact that a VM in Windows 8 is extremely unstable while my Windows 7 functioned perfectly. Still, I use Windows Explorer to get to the autorun application. Clicking it results in a weird arbitrary error about some file in System32. Eventually sitting around and waiting results in the setup appearing, but I never have an option to install Shockwave. Even if I made it, I would freeze like in Windows 7. Luckily I can load the setup directly from inside the CD folder, albeit with an error message similar to the one at autorun. The terms take a second to appear, but nothing else abnormal occurs. I get told I need DirectX 6. Installation finishes, but Thief crashes on startup.

So what have we learned? Thief is not easy to install on any VM. Now to get my laptop with Windows 7 and see if it can install Thief.