Comments on: Getting Thief: Deadly Shadows to run in Vista

By: Paul Sperandeo

Paul Sperandeo — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:39:58 +0000

I to was having the same issues with TDS. I installed it again after not playing it for some time, and was getting the constant intro loop. I initially tried compatibility mode, which didn’t work. So I shut off the UAC and yay! it works now, don’t even have to mess with dep or whatever that was called. Ty for posting this.

By: Acantophis3rD

Acantophis3rD — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:50:28 +0000

I just want to strengthen Silichip’s comment. The T:DS Editor executable works just perfectly on Win7 32bit. But you have to use the official 1.1 patch first before exchanging the executables. I didn’t even set any compatibility modes.

Greets
-A3D

By: Silichip

Silichip — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:43:21 +0000

I’ve worked on this for 3 hours trying to find the solution and yes I found it!
I have Windows 7 x86 (32bit so I don’t know if it’s same with 64bit version)

This are the things I did:

1. Followed steps from this website to 1 – 3 EXACTLY as it says!
(for vista users just follow the instruction on this web page only)

2. The razor1911’s crack won’t work so you have to replace t3.exe
with T3.exe from Thief 3 Editor pack. Download it here:
(you need to register to download the file) Link:
http://www.fileplanet.com/150454/150000/fileinfo/Thief:-Deadly-Shadows-Editor

3. I then right clicked the T3.exe -> Properties -> Compatibility tab ->
Set the compatibility mode to Windows XP Service pack 2.

4. I right clicked again and ran the application as administrator.

Finally it worked… I hope it helps!

By: Massimiliano Goi

Massimiliano Goi — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:47:40 +0000

You’re great. Thank you. With your post I am able to run this awesome game (the best ever, in my opinion) under Windows Seven 64-bit

By: yuval

yuval — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:37:38 +0000

really weird it worked BEFORE i rebooted my computer and AFTER i rebooted it didnt…..
and also i couldnt patch it (before and after)

By: david hudson

david hudson — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:40:58 +0000

thank you so much for the help. some steps like the UAC and DEP are not needed. I just followed all your other steps and im running it with no problems on vista. thx again

By: André Sargento

André Sargento — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:20:38 +0000

Thanks 😀

I’ve followed all of of your steps and finally i’m running Thief Deadly Shadows on my Vista!

Amazing 😉

Greetings from Portugal

By: Jockem

Jockem — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:27:19 +0000

thanks Rahul

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:58:37 +0000

EUREKA…….

Finally got Thief 3 to run on vista….

I’ll share the magic…

1) Download the unprotected exe file from gamecopyworld.com and replace ur t3.exe with it.

2) You need to change your save directory settings in the registry. Eidos didn figure that microsoft would change the user directories in vista

Here’s what to do.

Hit Windows Symbol + R on keyboard to bring up the run dialog

type in: regedit

hit control + F to perform a search

search for: Ion Storm

expand the Thief – Deadly Shadows folder, right click SaveGamePath, and select Modify… option

select a location ( I created a folder in users\Saved Games )

game was released well before Vista, obviously, so the default save game path was pointing to a location you didn’t have write access to, which was causing the problem

problem should be solved – was for me

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:48:17 +0000

Jodas apprentice - When I played, I used Logitech SetPoint to remap keys so that I didn't have to use function keys to use items. Something like this could solve your problem.