Thief III Goes Gold!

[alva]

Yes to the different registery, I do advice to put them on different drives.
Always a good thing to do is to put your OS first program on the drive where it is fastest.
W98 has gotten better over the years it was crap at first though, still better the w95, I can't recall the amount of times i had to instal that one.

[DrSpike]

You don't need them on different drives. They are self contained installs. Obviously if you install software of one OS it will only 'see' it in that OS, but the way to do this is to keep Win98 just for old games, and use XP for everything else. Both operating systems will require appropriate drivers.

There is no performance loss.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by alva
My version here is an upgrade over ME and funnily enough I have trouble than with a clean install, which is a hassle (well, for me it is , you can't get XP to install from DOS so...(unless you manually copy some files but I never quite figured it out. ))

Whilst we are on the (off) topic this shouldn't be a problem either. Obviously you can't use the standard setup .exe, but there is one you can use in DOS for win2k, and it's the same I'm sure for WinXP. Think about it..........otherwise you wouldn't be able to use the OS without one to upgrade from, which is silly.

Even further OT I don't like upgrading windows at all. A clean install is always the way forward, and if you want win98 then dual boot. Upgrading leaves everything in a right mess.

[Zkribbler]

And the download demo server is still busy.

[alva]

Try this one

http://games.telenet.be/

http://games.telenet.be/demos.php

And just to show off.
I would have taken me almost 6 full minutes

Ahh, night time surfing...

[Chaunk]

Is that a download rate of 1203KB/sec? As in, over a megabyte a second?

I want some broaderband

[alva]

Normaly I don't get this speed, no. I was surprised myself, that why I let it run for awhile to see if it would go down. Normal speed is about 500 to 700 KB.

Hmm, I guess I have to download it completely just for the heck of it.

[alva]

Speed went down somewhat but was still acceptable.
I guess I have to install it too eh..

[Skanky Burns]

You don't have to install this Thief demo, but of course we would be required (by law) to kill you.

[Skanky Burns]

My demo is arriving at ~50k/s.

[DrSpike]

My demo has stopped coming down now. I need to wait until more people have got the complete demo.

[Jamski]

Is that the 3-disc extended demo?

I'm going to wait on this XP issue, before I spend half a day mucking about just so I can play Thief 3. First I want to know if its actually worth my time.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Yeah it's extended all right.

[General Ludd]

You guys are slacking.



I'm installing the latest video drivers and geting eady to play now.

[Skanky Burns]

I was talking about the real demo. My extended demo is lucky to go above 2k/s alas. Still, I've gotten 100%, 75% and 14%.

But to the game itself: The game r0x0rZ!!!!!!

Loot glint make the loot hunt easier, but you still have to be awake to take notice of it. In the first actual mission, I got 95% of all loot, blackjacked all the guards except Benny (the drunk one) and made it out again without getting injured. I got spotted once.

There are of course some nitpicks. Garrett seems to be wearing very stiff pants this time - movement takes time. Leaning is all but useless, it exposes you, takes longer than just sidestepping a quick peak does and doesn't always return you back to the shadow you left. The arrow trail just has to go. Lame as. The sound sometimes stutters, but I think that may be due to my playing the game with fairly high details in 1280x1024. Dropping things for some reason involves putting your arm out horizontally and then letting go of the item - I would have thought a master thief would have discovered a quieter way of putting things down by now.

Finally run is on by default. Why? My left pinky is tired due to holding the ctrl button down for 2 hours.

Garretts voice is as are the guards (same voice actors as the previous). Sneaking is fun as well, just keep a column or similar between you and the guard and you are safe. Unless you bump something and make a noise. Or another person walks into the room. Or the guard suddenly notices some missing loot and starts to hunt for you.
Great game.

"Theres no-one here. They are all at the pub. Except for me." - Benny