Thief 2 tech issues

I decided to just post this here, in English, because I don't want to get into any too deep tech discussion in a language I'm not too epic with.

Basically, Thief 2 hangs after a little while of playing. I tried the Dark Engine Fix, and after I input the game folder and clicked установить, a screen flashed by too fast to read (I assume it was the installing screen), and then a DOS shell screen which said "Dark Engine Fix," so I assumed that was done because when I tried to re-run it, it said it was already installed.

Anyway, after that, I ran the game, and it ran a little longer than it had before, but it still hung, but I noticed that the character, who was speaking at the time, finished his speech when the game hung, so I decided to try the thief2vidfix thing, from darkfate.ru, but that said it needed Thief 2 v. 1.07, and I had 1.18 (I used the .exe). I tried the single-CPU fix, but when I click "Set Affinity" in the menu (English equivalent of "задать соответствие" in case anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about), it just says something about me not having permission to do that.

Any ideas?

-DOS forever

 

But Virgil, as I just said, when I click "Set Affinity," I get the message that I don't have permission to do that.

-DOS forever

 

Like SMArt and Virgil have said, you do not have administrator's privileges. I bet it's also the reason DarkEngineFix has failed to fix the muti-core problem. Re-run it as Administrator.

 

My computer account is administrator... however I will try running the program as admin.

Just tried that, and... no luck. I'm telling you, it's not admin problem. My account on this computer is an administrative account.

-DOS forever

 

Since you have Vista, I hope the game isn't installed to C:\Program Files?

 

Nope, C:\Games\Thief 2.

-DOS forever

 

Hmmm. Try to check the the UAC slider.

 

I never heard of that, and when I search it, I only get Windows 7 hits. I mean, I know what User Account Control is, but I never heard of a slider related to it.

-DOS forever

 

DOS навсегда, it regulates those "Are you sure you want to run this program?!" messages. Check the Control Panel - User Accounts.

 

Start notepad, type there
start /affinity 1 NAMEOFEXEFILE.EXE
replace NAMEOFEXEFILE.EXE with game's exe file (Thief2.exe I suppose, but not sure, never played)
select File -> Save As, go to C:\Games\Thief 2 folder, in "File type" select "All files (*.*)", in the name type runthief.cmd
Try running this file.

 

Eraser, slider is in Win7 only, in Vista it is only checkbox.

DOS навсегда, see attached screenshot (in russian, but):

 

TBAPb, true, forgot about that.

 

Tried the start /affinity 1 fix thing; it hung faster than last time. I can try disabling UAC, but somehow, I really doubt that will help. It doesn't seem to be a UAC-related issue. Attached is a screenshot of the error message I get. But even if disabling UAC would allow me to set affinity, it doesn't seem like it would do any good, because, assuming that .cmd program worked, I would have already tried using single-processor affinity.

-DOS forever

 

I'm pretty much sure it didn't. If, for some reason, you do not have privileges to edit the game files and processes, none of the ways to edit them (DEFix, .cmd file, manual affinity settings) will do the job - they will all get denied access.

 

So what are you saying? Disabling UAC will, in fact, help this matter?

-DOS forever

 

In this case - you MUST, before changing affinity, press "Show Processes for all users", this will elevate taskmgr and allow you to change affinity