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Thief: The Dark Project

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Thief: The Dark Project
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Developers
Looking Glass Studios
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Square Enix
Engines
Dark Engine
Release dates
Windows November 30, 1998
Thief: The Dark Project on Wikipedia
Thief
Thief: The Dark Project 1998
Thief II: The Metal Age 2000
Thief: Deadly Shadows 2004
The Dark Mod (unofficial spin-off) 2009
Thief 2014

This page is for the original game. For the 2014 reboot, see Thief (2014).

Key points

TFix fixes problems running the game on modern systems.

General information

A wiki for the classic Thief games
TTLG Forums - Thief Series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
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Amazon.com
DRM-free
Almost exclusively available as part of the Complete Collection which also includes Thief II and Thief: Deadly Shadows.
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Amazon.com
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GamersGate
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GOG.com
DRM-free
Sold as Thief: Gold, an enhanced version with additional extra features.
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Green Man Gaming
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Humble Store
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Steam
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Sold as Thief: Gold, an enhanced version with additional extra features.
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Thief Gold includes extra missions and some other enhancements.
Two demo versions are available (mirror1/mirror2/mirror3)
An unified demo version patched with NewDark is also available

Essential improvements

TFix

TFix updates the game for modern systems. Using it is highly recommended. The GOG.com version already includes some TFix changes. Includes the Enhancement Pack and other optional mods which improve some low quality objects and textures.

Enhancement Pack 2.0

The Enhancement Pack 2.0 is an improved version of the Enhancement Pack, with better textures and modified terrain textures. It also applies changes to Thief 2.

Thief Gold HD Texture Mod

The Thief Gold HD Texture Mod adds HD textures for all original missions, new flames and fog FX and new skins for some enemies. It is only compatible with Thief Gold. Includes the "NewDark Graphics Settings Tool" - a tool to configure advanced graphics settings (Anti-Aliasing, Bloom, etc.) Note: Makes the game more de-saturated and changes its graphical style in a way some may not like (far more than the Enhancement Pack 2.0 does). A FAQ with installation steps is available.

GoldToDark

The GoldToDark is a downgrade patch that will downgrade your Thief Gold into the original Thief The Dark Project, this must be used on top of an existing clean valid installation of Thief Gold.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/211600/pfx/[Note 1]
Configuration files are: cam.cfg (basic settings, resolution), cam_ext.cfg (NewDark config), install.cfg and user.bnd (key bindings).

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/211600/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Windowed

Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Installing TFix enables Vsync by default. Vsync can be optionally disabled.
Instructions

High frame rate

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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EAX support

Thief features enhanced 3D sound effects that originally required a Creative sound card with special EAX drivers. To use EAX effects on modern systems, do the following:
Instructions

Issues fixed

A detailed forum thread for technical difficulties is available on the Through The Looking Glass forum.

Crashes on multi-core systems

Instructions

Videos do not play

Instructions

Retail version won't install

Owners of the original disc version may encounter problems when attempting to install on modern operating systems.[1]
Instructions

Low frame rate in fullscreen mode

Thief has frame rate issues in fullscreen mode on Windows 8 and later.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz single core
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
These are for Thief Gold. The original version of the game may have slightly different requirements.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/211600/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (211600) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References