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Thief II: The Metal Age

protonopen appid 211740Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#804 · opened 2018-08-28 by Dazarlin · updated 2025-11-21 · 5 comments · github · game page · search this game
DDazarlin 2018-08-28 github

The game loads the main menu but it's extremely sluggish and when you actually start the game it immediately crashes. Basically the same issues as Thief Gold (Found here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/551#issue-354016634).
My log:
steam-211740.log
My system info: https://gist.github.com/Dazarlin/1fe5b3d929f71f1f3f598c5b99d0c262

11heghost 2018-08-28 github

Confirmed.
Here's my log: steam-211740.log
And here's my system: https://gist.github.com/1heghost/3ecf520539553eb7b412f5a051d837d7

Ppprotonrep 2018-08-29 github

If you don't mind a little bit of tinkering, i'd suggest you download NewDark and overwrite a couple of files on Thief II's installation directory. NewDark improves compatibility with newer systems (it's an unofficial "update"):

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140085

You'll need to download t2_v119.zip, extract the contents of the new_dark.zip and contrib.zip archives into your T2 directory, and you are done (you may need to rename Thief2.exe to thief2.exe so that the old exe is overwritten).

It goes without saying that re-installing the game or "verifying local files" will undo this and you'll have to do it again.

I hope this helps

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-11-25 github

Thief 2 (211740)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3253.
@shoober420 posted on 2019-11-25T00:40:47:

Compatibility Report

System Information

Symptoms

Game has only low resolutions and bit depth, cursor flickers, and compatibility issues because of its age and vanilla engine limitations.

Installing T2Fix 1.27 fixes the issue for me (https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149669). Using 60Hz and VSync and/or framerate limiter to 60fps is necessary for proper movement speeds and game timing. Enabled PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 for Vulkan D3D9 wrapper.

Ggituser823 2025-11-21 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Thief II: The Metal Age
  • Steam AppID of the game: 211740

System Information

I confirm:

  • [ x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [ x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-211740.log

Symptoms

The game start fine. But as soon as i start the game from the menu it crashes.
I think once i saw a errormessage about some videofile.

Reproduction

Start the game, then try to start the game from the menu.

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