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v0.3: Thief II + Thief Gold, NewDark 1.29

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@crinkelitehttps crinkelitehttps released this 02 Oct 15:43
v0.3
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Thief II and Thief Gold in a SteamVR headset (NewDark 1.28 / 1.29).

New in v0.3

  • Thief Gold support (NewDark 1.29 Thief.exe, e.g. installed with RoguePatcher)
  • NewDark 1.29 support for Thief II (1.28 still works)
  • Experimental: NewDark 1.29's hardware T&L renderer (Thief2_hwtl.exe / Thief_hwtl.exe, with dynamic shadows and the other new effects) via run_openvr_hwtl.bat
  • One zip for both games: the launchers find Thief2.exe or Thief.exe themselves

What it does

  • Stereo 3D with head tracking (1:1; SteamVR reprojection keeps the world steady)
  • The game's view widened to fill the headset
  • HUD (light gem, health, inventory) on a head-locked panel, toggle with H or controller Y; the light gem can stay visible on its own
  • Menus and books on a panel fixed in the room
  • Optional Xbox-style controller support (dinput.dll)
  • No changes to the game install: a d3d9.dll in the game folder loads the mod

Install
Copy everything inside the zip's thief2-vr-v0.3 folder into the game folder (next to Thief2.exe or Thief.exe), start SteamVR, then run run_openvr_1440.bat (or run_openvr_hwtl.bat for the hardware T&L renderer). Details, controls and settings are in README.md.

Requirements
Windows 10/11, SteamVR and a headset, and one of these exact game builds (any other is refused safely, and headlook.log says so):

  • Thief2.exe NewDark 1.28: af56a109a51ac9100a15da72cd403170a266736313679029fae1c222ebfba684
  • Thief2.exe NewDark 1.29: d26342c34624a08a0e5fc8d8c9daf14c676642c328f41c01f548170774aafe8f
  • Thief2_hwtl.exe NewDark 1.29: 4f1f98ed9cde1a2b1d8e2c6780ad4aebe74c0ea036efe0653b6fbae16bbc9f15
  • Thief.exe (Gold) NewDark 1.29: 1a4bec9ef2d30ae948154bf74d31808d5942bbbcd9cbd6d40a0296622b44b5bb
  • Thief_hwtl.exe (Gold) NewDark 1.29: e34cb1e64a15d51695710e2550b4b2f847e11867c2c6fcff697f6d324ba24222

Known issues

  • Frame rate on an RTX 3050 at 1440x1080: 33-54 fps (classic renderer), 22-31 fps (hardware T&L); each frame is copied through the CPU on its way to SteamVR
  • Hardware T&L exe: the light gem and held-item models show in the left eye only
  • Rotation only, no positional tracking
  • HUD text is small
  • Tested on one PC with one Windows Mixed Reality headset only

SHA-256 of thief2-vr-v0.3.zip:
c2197f4de2f9d36ccba729ff6bd8dd47a0319331d8857223a3602aabfe8b31f5

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