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Power overwhelming!
Feb. 10th, 2004 12:22 pmWas nosing around the bargain bin at Fry's Electronics last night and located a copy of Thief 2 for $12. I picked up Thief Gold a couple years ago, played it through, and loved it, but I haven't seen either on the shelves since, so you'd better believe I snatched it up. Then I get home, install it, and decide to try out the first level before I hit the sack.
I get about two minutes into the actuall gameplay and my system freezes.
Reboot. Try again. This time I only get a minute.
I double-check to make sure the patch was firmly installed and that there are no later versions. I try different graphic settings. I reinstall the game. No luck.
Just when I'm about to despair, it hits me that I've seen behavior like this before. A known glitch in some game collections was that the software was so old it made certain assumptions about how much your machine could do at once, instead of physically preventing certain "must take place in sequence" processes from running simultaneously.
We've got an older computer in one of the back rooms, still running Win98 on a P3 500MHz. That's just barely over the recommended system reqs for Thief 2. I install it there. Smooth running through the first level. VICTOLY.
Mental note: never throw that clunker out. There are plenty of other old games I've never played out there somewhere.
( And now, time for a big fat personality quiz )
I get about two minutes into the actuall gameplay and my system freezes.
Reboot. Try again. This time I only get a minute.
I double-check to make sure the patch was firmly installed and that there are no later versions. I try different graphic settings. I reinstall the game. No luck.
Just when I'm about to despair, it hits me that I've seen behavior like this before. A known glitch in some game collections was that the software was so old it made certain assumptions about how much your machine could do at once, instead of physically preventing certain "must take place in sequence" processes from running simultaneously.
We've got an older computer in one of the back rooms, still running Win98 on a P3 500MHz. That's just barely over the recommended system reqs for Thief 2. I install it there. Smooth running through the first level. VICTOLY.
Mental note: never throw that clunker out. There are plenty of other old games I've never played out there somewhere.
( And now, time for a big fat personality quiz )
