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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
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Thief: The Dark Project on Wikipedia
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Key points

TFix fixes problems running the game on modern systems.

General information

Steam Users' Forums for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Thief: The Circle - Contains several patches and user-made content, including general modifications.

Availability

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Thief Gold includes extra missions and some other enhancements.

Improvements

TFix

TFix updates the game for modern systems. Using it is highly recommended. The GOG.com version already includes some TFix changes.

Enhancement Pack

The Enhancement Pack replaces low quality objects and textures with versions that have higher polygon counts and texture resolutions.

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

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

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Windows XP Windows Vista or 7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9
These are for Thief Gold. The original version of the game may have slightly different requirements.

References