I was super excited to buy DRM-free Thief from this site, and even more excited that an official patch was released! I had some problems, however. Although the game ran smooth as butter, the videos simply would not play. I tried a number of solutions:1. Move the ddfix Thief.exe and files into the main game folder and configure them.1a.

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This worked for the movies, but crashed when the game tried to load.2. Download and register the Indeo Video Codec.2a. I've already played through every Thief game on this Windows installation before (W7Ux64) with no issues. Reinstalling the video codec and manually registering ir5032.dll did absolutely nothing.3. Download the movies re-encoded into VP6.3a. Still no change.4.

Allowing for the fact that my nostalgia goggles probably aren't calibrated, I'll go out on a limb and say Thief 2014 might even be better in some ways than the previous games when it comes to story. (At least until the final act, where it feels like the cutscenes don't fit together because of re-writes.).

Delete the entire folder, reinstall from setupthiefgold2.0.0.46.exe, copy THIEF.EXE from the backup folder to the main game folder, then download and apply.4a. This last method worked perfectly and loaded in-game immediately.I can say very clearly that the issue has nothing to do with registered or installed codecs of any sort, but a problem in the patch(es) applied/configured in the Universal update (2.0.1). Maybe it's specific to Windows 7 x64, but something really should be done about this.I'd like to take this moment to thank the great people at GOG.com for being as active in trying to make this experience seamless as the fans have been. It's absolutely nuts and amazing to me that almost 15 years later, this game still works and is still modded.I'd also like to give a special thanks to voodoo47 for his stickied post including that fix.

1. For Thief Gold on the PC, FAQ/Walkthrough by Taffer. Thief: The Dark Project Gold (v1.37) FAQ v15.2 by Taffer (taffer-six@home.com) July 22, 2000 'Ye shall not rob from the house I have built, or commit any theft or unrighteousness, lest ye be struck down and driven into the earth forthwith, and the land of the heathen consume you.'
2. This can easily be observed in the prologue cutscene, where Garret should be speaking. If you installed the game on an external drive, try moving it to an internal drive. Play thief 2, play again, pay UDK4 or idTech 6 licence, employ engine programmers who are able to code jumping physics, listen to fans not ubisoft.

Show that guy some love, especially if my method here fixed your problem. Modifying by hand was a real pain in the ass before, so these installers and quick guides are invaluable and ultimately the lifeline of these games.Now to figure out how to get Open Broadcaster Software to capture the game for live streaming. Voodoo47: the 2.0.1.46 GOG release (with the last GOG patch 2.0.1.47) should run everything out of the box, and is also compatible with TFix without the need to move files around.messing with codecs, ddfix and encoding has no effect, as you have already found out. By itself (2.0.1.47), movies weren't playing. I wasn't aware that it was already compatible though, so I might rename the folder and try a reinstall/patch/patch to see if that works as well. I just wanted to make sure that I documented exactly what I did to make it work correctly.Also, figured out that I could set the game to Borderless Windowed in camext.cfg, then set OBS to capture the window, so I'll be live-streaming on Expert in about 20 minutes (when my pizza gets here) via.

Voodoo47: as for the capability to play movies, there is no difference between 2.0.1.47 and TFix 1.16 (both use NewDark). Sometimes, a reboot is required after installing the game to get the movies going, it's possible that this was your case as well.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case here. I haven't shutdown my computer in 4 days. All of this was done with the same Windows session.Upon further testing, it looks like TFix fixed a problem with system files.Just now I:- Moved all Thief GOLD contents to a new folder and reinstall 2.0.0.46 full.- Movies play.- Applied 2.0.1.47 patch.- Movies still play.- Applied TFix 1.16.- Movies stopped playing!

This includes the good folder backup I created.- Copied Thief GOLDbackupddfixTHIEF.EXE to Thief GOLD and ran it,- Movies play again! Aaaand, ffmpeg.dll randomly doesn't load.I copied my old working install files over again just for giggles and it played movies the first time. Then I closed the game and opened it again and they broke.again. Log files indicate inability to load ffmpeg.dll so I'm gonna try replacing that with another, newer one I have in my system.: lgvid.dll: Failed to find/load ffmpeg.dll, no movie playback possible (err 0xC1, cwd: C:GamingThief GOLD)FOUND IT! This is really getting ridiculous.SO.The installation I had before all of this, we'll call it 'good files'. The new install I made when I started testing today, we'll call that 'new good'.I flushed my Thief GOLD directory again and copied 'good files' back into it.

Like I said before in this reply, the movies played the first time and then failed. There's a command designed to deal with that specific occurrence, nounloadffmpeg, but that was already enabled in camext.cfgI did a quick search for ffmpeg.dll and tried the Thief 2 1.19 demo's file, which was a bit larger than this one. Same result, couldn't load. Then, out of curiosity, I took at look at the dll that calls FFMPEG, lgvid.dll.' Good files' has one that's 21 KB'new good' has one that's 5,479 KBWith all of the rest of my files being otherwise back to where they were last night, when I was able to stream the game with zero issues, replacing the tiny lgvid.dll file in my current game directory with the huge one from the 'new good' directory completely fixed my issue.I apologize for the massive pillar that is the previous post, but I hope it's useful in any case. Cam.cfg did make a difference before but I'm not sure why.To confirm this, I ran TFix on my Thief GOLD folder again and successfully broke movie playback.

The lgvid.dll file was also replaced with a tinier file. I copied over the larger file again and BAM! Instant success.I've also hosted it for more science. I'm not sure what the deal is or why it wouldn't work before (I should've checked my logs then, but I also didn't know what I was looking for). TFix had previously remedied my issue, now the opposite. At least there's a solution for me that seems to work just fine.

I'm pretty sure this is the same version of the dll that's installed with 2.0.0.46. I'd recommend that any future installers make a backup of this file for troubleshooting, if there are other users with my issue.

Hello Darkness, my old friend.Thief Gold is essentially The Dark Project plus three new missions, some enemies and various level fixes, particularly with Bonehoard. Could seem like a light offering, but the new levels actually add quite a lot to the original in both volume (the levels are huge) and storyline.

Two of the new missions focus on obtaining the four Talismans needed to open the Haunted Cathedral, while the third is a heist job not related to the rest of the story.The first Gold mission, ‘Thieves Guild’, takes place just before ‘The Sword’ and has little significance to the overall plot of the game. At the same time it’s the most interesting, involving a daring heist of a stolen vase from an extremely well organized thieves’ guild. The thieves have their elaborate hide-out in a sewer network located deep underneath a gambling den, with several other complications arising along the way. The level has its moments, although it’s much too maze-like when navigating through the sewers.The last two levels are more integrated into the second act of the game. In the original, you had to retrieve four Talismans spread across two levels – ‘The Lost City’ and ‘Undercover’.

The Gold version gives every Talisman its own level. Enter ‘The Mage Towers’, the second Gold exclusive that involves sneaking into the Hand Brotherhood’s gigantic stronghold.This level understandably makes full use of Mages, the game’s new enemy. As elementalists who oppose necromancy, Mages come in four sizes according to the school of magic they follow, be it air, fire, water or earth magic. It’s a clever take on a common gaming foe, and the level itself is divided into a central fortress with several outlying towers, one that houses each element and a central stronghold housing the Brotherhood’s library and living quarters. Yet the mission involves far too much walking and platforming, making it the longest and also least interesting of the three.

The last level is by far the best. ‘Song of the Cavern’ takes place just after ‘The Lost City’ and involves braking into a fancy Opera House in the midst of a feud between its owners.

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Obviously inspired by Phantom of the Opera, the mission was solely put together by Terri Brosius (the lady who voiced SHODAN from System Shock 2), and involves you venturing into a cave system leading to an underground shrine housing the third Talisman, only to find it was already stolen by an unlikely suspect. This level alone is worth going through the rest of the game.If you haven’t played through Thief then the Gold version is an excellent start. It’s still a wonderfully deep and atmospheric stealth game, and the exclusive Gold levels just add more awesome to it.System Requirements: Pentium 166, 16 MB RAM, 4MB SVGA Video, 60 MB HDD, Win95/98.