Thief II: The Metal Age
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Developers | |
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Looking Glass Studios | |
Publishers | |
Eidos Interactive | |
Square Enix | |
Engines | |
Dark Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 21, 2000 |
Thief | |
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Thief: The Dark Project | 1998 |
Thief II: The Metal Age | 2000 |
Thief: Deadly Shadows | 2004 |
The Dark Mod (unofficial spin-off) | 2009 |
Thief | 2014 |
Key points
- Tafferpatcher improves compatibility with modern systems.
General information
- Steam Users' Forums for game series
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Improvements
Tafferpatcher
Tafferpatcher installs NewDark which improves compatibility on modern systems. It also includes many optional improvements. The GOG.com version is pre-patched with NewDark but does not have Tafferpatcher's optional improvements.
Skip intro video
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Video settings
Field of view (FOV)
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Windowed
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Vertical sync (Vsync)
- Installing Tafferpatcher enables Vsync by default. Vsync can be optionally disabled.
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Input settings
Audio settings
EAX support
- Thief II 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:
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Issues fixed
Crashes on multi-core systems
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Videos do not play
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Windows XP or Windows Vista | |
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Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | compatible with DirectX 7 | compatible with DirectX 9 |
- These requirements are for the GOG.com version. NewDark's system requirements are higher than the game in its original form.
References
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