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Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on April 25, 2004, 08:36:47 AM: Almost here... I\'ve been waiting years for this game.

Let\'s hope Ion Storm knew what they were doing when they took the franchise over... I think they did.

http://www.thief3.com/main.html

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Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Lord Nicon on April 25, 2004, 08:39:03 AM: THAT looks mighty sexy.

I want it

Damn PC\'s and needing the money to upgrade them.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on April 25, 2004, 09:42:48 AM: Kinda looks like splintercell cross Thief.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on April 25, 2004, 10:22:01 AM: That\'s cause of the optional 3rd person view (which I won\'t be using).

Phooey on Splinter Cell.

Thief is THE stealth franchise.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Kurt Angle on April 25, 2004, 10:59:18 AM: Ion Storm?

*thinks back to Daikatana* :eek:
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Phil on April 25, 2004, 11:31:27 AM: If they ruin Thief 3, I\'m going to be extremely angry.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on April 25, 2004, 11:35:29 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Kurt Angle
Ion Storm?

*thinks back to Daikatana* :eek:

This is a different Ion Storm. Diakatana was John Romero\'s baby. He has sence moved on. Ion Storm is all Warren Specter now.

Read this book, it\'s awesome. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375505245/qid=1082921624/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-5286166-6415837)
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: mm on April 25, 2004, 11:49:46 AM: http://www.ttlg.com/
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on April 25, 2004, 12:19:19 PM: Fellow Looking Glass fan I see.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 18, 2004, 01:36:36 PM: release date NEXT TUESDAY!

Man oh man oh man oh man oh man.

I haven\'t been this excited about a game in awhile.

God I love them Thief games.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: THX on May 18, 2004, 01:48:41 PM: what\'s so cool about them? :D
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 18, 2004, 01:53:01 PM: Dont get me started!
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 29, 2004, 10:57:06 AM: Well, I got the game, and as far as I can tell it rules.

One problem though.

My computer is more than enough to play this game, but even in 640x480 with everything I can turn down, turned all the way down, I\'m getting a whopping framerate of 7 FPS!

Deus Ex 2 had these same problems.

God damn you Ion Storm
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: theomen on May 29, 2004, 11:34:57 AM: what are your specs?
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: videoholic on May 29, 2004, 12:08:40 PM: I can\'t even play tetris with mine any more.

Ugh.

Computers suck.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 29, 2004, 12:12:12 PM: AMD 1.8
512 RAM
Geforce fx 5200 128mb

Nothing special, but enough to be able to play this game.

When I go into an open are my FPS drops down to below 5! On 640x480? Are you kidding me?

I been all over the Ion Storm message boards and nobody can figure out what the deal is with this.

Other people are having the same problem and they have way better computers than mine.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Halberto on May 29, 2004, 01:27:49 PM: How many programs start when you boot up? You can close them out but they\'re still running after that, so right click them and change the preferences.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: luckee on May 29, 2004, 01:34:09 PM: I WAS going to get this game untill I saw this....

Minimum requirements are:
Windows 2000/XP
P4 1.5GHz (or AMD equivalent)
256MB RAM
100% DirectX 9 compatible sound card
3GB free hard disk space

Supported Graphics Chipsets:
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeo 9 series (9000,9200,9500,9600,9700,9800)
NVIDIA GeForce 3Ti series
NVIDIA GeForce 4Ti series
NVIDIA GeForce FX series
NVIDIA GeForce 6 series
Graphics card must support pixel shader 1.1

UNSUPPORTED GRAPHICS CHIPSETS:
NVIDIA GeForce 4MX (460, 440 & 420)
NVIDIA GeForce 4 Go / NVIDIA Quadro FX Go
NVIDIA GeForce Nforce2 & Nforce 3 (onboard graphics)

Looks like I need to upgrade.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 29, 2004, 01:53:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ViVi
How many programs start when you boot up? You can close them out but they\'re still running after that, so right click them and change the preferences.

Trust me, I\'ve tried everything at this point.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Knotter8 on May 29, 2004, 04:07:39 PM: "Geforce fx 5200" .... there\'s your problem

Sorry, but that card is really not so good. That
is a generally known fact about the 5200, when it comes to DX9
gaming. It\'s said to be actually slower than a GF4 MX. And yes, Nvidia specifies it as a DX9 card, but it\'s useless cuz it just lacks the speed to actually handle such effects in DX9 games.

If you have a little patience (and cash) i suggest you get the GF 6800 GT :bounce:
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 29, 2004, 05:36:50 PM: I thought that too. But in the readme for the game it clearly states that with my 5200, I should be able to play the game "with no trouble with settings on high".

I really do want a new card though.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: theomen on May 29, 2004, 06:44:48 PM: that really sux, one of the probs with pc gaming is that you run into this kind of thing every once in a while
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Halberto on May 29, 2004, 07:38:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Luke
I thought that too. But in the readme for the game it clearly states that with my 5200, I should be able to play the game "with no trouble with settings on high".

I really do want a new card though.

Damn dude, give me your old one.

Im using GF4 MX420
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Phil on May 29, 2004, 08:21:06 PM: I\'m using a GF2 MX400, fear it\'s power...
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: luckee on May 29, 2004, 08:35:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Luke
I thought that too. But in the readme for the game it clearly states that with my 5200, I should be able to play the game "with no trouble with settings on high".

I really do want a new card though.

GeForce 5500 256MB $99 after Rebate on Best Buy.
comes with BF1942 if you dont already have.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 29, 2004, 09:36:24 PM: No shit... I might actually be able to afford that.

I think I\'m going to just put Thief 3 away untill I have the system to really play it. As far as I can tell, It\'s a completely awesome game, and I want to enjoy it in all it\'s glory.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Knotter8 on May 30, 2004, 04:56:56 AM: But eh, did they succesfully incorporate that 3rd person view.... or does it feel like an afterthought ? Thus far i have seen only one or two ingame clips from this game and it seemed as if the character was \'sliding\' instead of really treading with his feet...:confused:

btw. ...about that readme statement on being able to play the game with that card ; with all due respect ; that\'s just marketing talk by Ion Storm. They probably had one superhigh end testbed pc in wich they tested several cards.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on May 30, 2004, 07:50:46 AM: I know:(

I\'m just trying to stay positive here.

And I don\'t use the 3rd person view, the game chugs even worse when I use it.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on June 06, 2004, 07:32:28 PM: Picking up myself a copy soon. I\'ll tell you how it plays on my comp. :)
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: THX on June 06, 2004, 08:38:35 PM: It ran alright on my buddy\'s p4 2.53 @ 2.8 with Radeon 9700 Pro. Fraps was showing his framerate at around 35fps during action, 50fps normal.

It\'s gonna be hard to consistently get over 60fps in this game but to be honest it doesn\'t move that fast so I don\'t mind that more of the resoruces are focused on the lighting, texture detail, etc... It really is beautiful even at a low frame rate.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: Luke on June 07, 2004, 12:25:59 PM: Dude, I would kill to get anywhere near 35fps on my puter.

I\'ll just have to wait till I upgrade to play it... and after waiting three years for the game:(

Oh well, I guess I have something to look forward too.
Title: Thief 3 - Spring 2004
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on June 09, 2004, 12:19:30 AM: Well i\'m running it at 1024x768 High Rez textures, high shadow details, high details etc.. and it runs fine on my comp.