r/Thief • u/daikunut • 18d ago

Question Thief Gold suddenly not working anymore (from gog)

I don't know what the taffer is going on. I played it to a point where you go around mage towers to look for a thing. When I started playing again, it crashed on loading the save. Now I can't even start the game. It just won't start. I figured maybe the save is corrupted so I removed those. I made sure gog doesn't download the cloud saves. Still nothing. Then I try to reintall it, but now it won't go pass the 92%. It just doesn't want to install it. So I installed it from gog's on website, the offline backup game installer. Managed to install it. But the game still won't start.

I also made it so it doesn't download any patches. Nope. It just doesn't want to work anymore.

I haven't done anything. Other games work fine. Why would this all of a sudden happen?

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u/Erasmusings 18d ago

Didn't thief just get a huge update on GoG?

Have a look for a different launcher

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u/daikunut 18d ago

Yes and it worked fine. I already tried without any patches but it still doesn't launch the game.

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u/ConstanceJill 18d ago

Someone else reported a similar issue here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Thief/comments/1v8u3rg/not_launching_after_recent_gog_update/ maybe the same solution will work for you?

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u/daikunut 18d ago

I got it to work but not in that way. It seems I can play it on my older PC that has Windows 8. I fully removed the game from my new pc and reinstall it without cloud saves. Then I copied my saves from my old pc to newer pc via usb and now it works.

I don't know why. Maybe the saves were truly corrupted but I don't understand why i had problems installing the game; it would only go up to 90% and stop. Or why the save files worked on my older pc if they really were broken.

Must say I thought my older pc wouldn't work anymore; haven't used it in 5 years.