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Steam workshop sounds ideal for this. People can subscribe to free workshop items, which can be anything from mods to maps to ingame items or anything else. Anyone can submit workshop content.. so it would ease the burden on maintainers of the Steam release and let users access content faster. See here for an example https://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/workshop/ Official content could be released as DLC if it's significant enough

OH! I might be on to something here. It's been a while since I tried to install this and forgot about something. On the download page (http://www.thedarkmod.com/download-the-mod/), step 1 says: ia32-libs was depreciated but it is a dependency of TDM.. and so I never installed it. I found some info about it on this link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/107230/what-happened-to-the-ia32-libs-package I tried installing lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 as they were recommended in that (very old) thread. But it still didn't work. I think at least I know what might be going on now.

Thanks. I've tried everything you suggested and went through and did some steps from your link and it's still not working. The best I can get it to do, is open up a game window for about 1 second, and it immediately disappears. From the terminal, it's segfaulting -------------------------------------- --- Common Initialization Complete --- ------------- Warnings --------------- during The Dark Mod initialization... WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/splash/launch WARNING:file def/tdm_ai_heads_springheel.def, line 840: model 'head03_citywatch' previously defined at def/tdm_ai_heads_springheel.def:825 WARNING:file particles/tdm_bikerdude.prt, line 421: particle 'tdm_dry_ice' previously defined at particles/tdm_bikerdude.prt:28 WARNING:file particles/tdm_bikerdude.prt, line 554: particle 'tdm_floating_mood_dust_small' previously defined at particles/tdm_bikerdude.prt:54 WARNING:file particles/tdm_bikerdude.prt, line 581: particle 'tdm_glare_chandelier_02' previously defined at particles/tdm_bikerdude.prt:1 5 warnings terminal support enabled ( use +set in_tty 0 to disabled ) pid: 6936 16000 MB System Memory 512 MB Video Memory Async thread started Couldn't exec autocommands.cfg - file does not exist. signal caught: Segmentation fault si_code 1 Trying to exit gracefully.. double fault Segmentation fault, bailing out About to exit with code 11 ModelGenerator memory: No LOD entries. Segmentation fault

Nvidia proprietary 358.16 fovRatio 0 (deafult) unbindall bind "ENTER" "_impulse51" bind "ESCAPE" "togglemenu" bind "SPACE" "_moveup" bind "-" "_impulse50" bind "0" "_impulse10" bind "1" "_impulse1" bind "2" "_impulse2" bind "3" "_impulse3" bind "4" "_impulse4" bind "5" "_impulse5" bind "6" "_impulse6" bind "7" "_impulse7" bind "8" "_impulse8" bind "9" "_impulse9" bind "=" "_impulse49" bind "[" "_impulse48" bind "\" "_mlook" bind "]" "_impulse47" bind "^" "_impulse0" bind "a" "_moveleft" bind "c" "_impulse24" bind "d" "_moveright" bind "e" "_impulse46" bind "f" "_impulse44" bind "g" "inventory_use '#str_02396'" bind "i" "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02391'" bind "k" "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02392'" bind "l" "inventory_use '#str_02395'" bind "m" "inventory_cycle_maps" bind "o" "_impulse19" bind "p" "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02389'" bind "q" "_impulse45" bind "r" "_impulse52" bind "s" "_back" bind "u" "_impulse51" bind "v" "inventory_hotkey '#str_02397'" bind "w" "_forward" bind "x" 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Hi. I've been searching around for help and I've found some similar reports but no solutions. I downloaded TDM yesterday. First time I tried to run it: The game went into fullscreen mode, and my desktop (KDE) was "kind of" showing on the screen- most of the screen was black but a small section of my desktop was all zoomed in and distorted. I could hear the TDM menu options click as I hovered my mouse over them, but could not see any part of the main menu.Googled, someone said to change resolution in the config. So I set r_customWidth and r_customHeight (2560x1440). Saved the config and ran the game.. it worked! I could see the main menu, and everything seemed to be working.From here, I exited because I wasn't ready to play, just wanted to get it working. As soon as I exited, my desktop resolution changed to some ultra-low res zoomed in mode in 4:3 aspect ratio (I think). My desktop was being displayed letterboxed at like 320x240 and zoomed in, and I could pan around my desktop by moving the cursor to the edges. I had to reboot to fix this.Now when I try going into the game, I just get a black screen with a desktop cursor.. no main menu sounds and tilde->Exit doesn't work, I think at this point I was still interacting with the desktop, not the game. I don't think the game was actually even open.. it just jacks up my resolution and turns the screen black. Had to reboot again to fix it. I'm at a loss. I've found an old post where one of the devs said to set r_mode to -1, which I tried.. and nothing happens. The game opens and immediately exits. What do I have to do to get this game to actually run?

I submitted the site to Digg a long while back.. http://digg.com/software/The_Dark_Mod_A_Do...the_Thief_games It almost had enough support to hit the front page (which would expose it to millions). I busted my ass trying to get people to sign up and support it, but unfortunately it wasn't enough. Maybe someone should re-submit it and have the fans here go there and digg it. And my topic here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=4253&hl=

Sorry for being unclear. Here's a screenshot someone else posted on the TTLG forums http://www.directupload.net/show/d/781/IDTMArUx.jpg Just click the "digg it" link and that's it Thanks everyone for your support!!!! We're up to 35 diggs!

I was hesitant to use the word saga in my post on digg.. but then I realized I wasn't referring to the Thief story itself, but rather the greatness of the Thief games overall. Either way.. so far we're getting some good support from the guys over at Eidos. One of the Eidos forum moderators posted a long and very good reply to the digg article. Check it out To everyone: It only takes a couple minutes to register on digg.com. We need all the help we can get to put this article on the front page.

Thanks for pointing that out.. the forum trunicated the url because it was too long. Fixed with a tinyurl.

I submitted an article to Digg.com about the Dark Mod and I really need everyone's help to get this on the front page. If we can get TDM on the front page of digg, that means hundreds of thousands of people who didn't already know the mod even existed will now know.... including people that could assist in the development of the mod. Which means we may get to play it sooner.. and could end up being 100x better. So please... DIGG IT (link fixed, thanks Vadrosaul) http://tinyurl.com/mle5v Now I'm off to the Eidos forums to post the same thing. UPDATE: I guess there isn't a timeframe on Digg... but I read the TOS and I must have read it wrong... digg says it's still there after 1 day and 5 hours. I guess they just meant there must be activity on the topic within 24 hours. It's still going strong after 30 hours!! Keep them coming guys!! Keep digging it until it can't be dugg anymore