GarrettLoader

Garrettloader is a Thief Fan Mission Loader aimed as an alternative to the outdated DarkLoader (DarkLoader can not handle Thief: Deadly Shadows Fan Missions), created by Richard Potter (potterr on TTLG).

Game Support

GarrettLoader supports:

• Thief Gold
• Thief II: The Metal Age
• Thief: Deadly Shadows
• System Shock 2
• The Dark Mod (including standard Doom 3 Maps).

There is also support (in a basic way) for:

• Thief 2X (a full 13 mission Unofficial Sequel to Thief 2)
• Dark Metal (a heavily re-engineered version of Thief 2 and DromEd, Dark Metal allows Thief 1 FMs to be played in Thief 2, it also has masses of new objects, characters, AI intelligence and game systems).

Also since version 1.31, GarrettLoader has support for hundreds of other games via reference files, it can be tried with the supplied reference files for Half Life 1 and Half Life 2.

Installing

Before installation, install the following Game patches:

• Thief:_The_Dark_Project/Technical_Support#Patch
• Thief_Gold/Technical_Support#Patch
• Thief_II:_The_Metal_Age/Technical_Support#Patch
• Thief:_Deadly_Shadows/Technical_Support#Patch

The self-extracting installation file included with Garrettloader explains how to install GarrettLoader.

To easiest way to use Fan Missions after downloading is to create a separate directory on the PC and storing them there. Then specify this location in the setup portion of Garrettloader to load them.

Downloading Fan Missions

See where to find Fan Missions.

Setup

Configuration of Games and Fan Mission directories.

Troubleshooting

Manual clean up of files

Occasionally problems can occur when starting a new mission. When loading and playing one mission it is possible to encounter things that indicate a different mission is about to be run instead of the intended mission or crashes might occur. This could mean that GarrettLoader has failed to clean up the Thief folder while uninstalling a Fan Mission.

If this occurs it is possible to resolve the issue by manually cleaning up the Thief folder:

1. install the original game missions;
2. delete the following folders in the main Thief folder {Pal, Bitmap, Books, Fam, Intrface, Mesh, Obj} but do not delete {movies, crfs, res}.

The mission can now be reinstalled and should load properly.

External links

• Thief Fan Missions FAQ, TTLG Forums.