I saw this last week somewhere. I can’t exactly remember where, but I think it may have been Sshock2.com, which has more frequent updates than say thief-thecircle.com.
In any case, it appears that some mysterious taffer who goes by the name of “Le Corbeau”, on a French language forum has been working on a version 1.19 patch for Thief 2, and not only that, but has a patch for System Shock 2 as well that upgrades it from v 2.3 to v 2.4. These are unofficial, mind you. It’s been 12 years or more since Thief II v 1.18 was released by LGS.
These patches introduce a whole host of new fixes, from graphics, textures and resolution to gameplay and AI – fixes which probably aren’t apparent to anyone right away when playing the game, but this patch does make the game easier to run on modern operating systems and hardware. There’s also an upgrade to the editor, DromEd, too.
This comes at an opportune time as I was just contemplating whether I really wanted to install Thief II and play it… again. I’m now leaning more towards yes more than ever. Not only because of the patch, but because of some mods and FMs that I’ve downloaded for the game as well recently.
There’s a thread over the TTLG forums where you can get download links for these unofficial patches.
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