Guide To Setting Up Thief Gold For New Players (including improved controls!)

New to Thief Gold? This guide will help you install the unofficial patch as well as a custom keybind file that improves the controls to be more like modern first person games.

Setting up Thief Gold

1. Install the game.
2. Right-click on Thief Gold in your Steam library and click Properties.
3. Click on updates and turn off automatic updates.
4. Shut down Steam (click on the Steam menu in the upper left and then exit).
5. Download Tfix from here http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134733
6. Run the Tfix installer. Make sure to select the directory where Thief is installed when prompted (default is C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\thief_gold)
7. Once Tfix has been installed relaunch Steam.
8. Right-click on Thief Gold and click Properties.
9. Click on Local Files and then Browse Local Files.
10. Download my keybinds files from here https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkKHZ_GKVZWV80TITtiGXQmjV3a6?e=uEXmbP
11. Open the zip file and copy both files into the SAVES folder inside of the thief_gold folder.
12. Go back to Steam and launch Thief Gold. If everything worked then you should see the intro cutscenes playing.
13. Once the main menu appears; select options, customize controls, and then load. Select either Thief Modern Binds or Thief Ultimate Binds depending on your preference.
14. Play the game!

Controls

Just want to jump in and start playing? The Thief Modern Controls are for you! These are the keybinds originally included in this guide.

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Already played Thief 2 or System Shock 2? Want the full experience but with a more familiar control layout? Check out the Thief Ultimate Controls!

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Hopefully this guide will help some new players to get into Thief as it is a great game. The default keybinds can be confusing and outdated but with a little tweaking it is still a fantastic experience. Happy thieving!

[Valentin_126]

Do the modern controls also work for Thief 2?

[Dvious]

why hold to crouch and not toggle. u have to hold down both control and alt?

[GσттZ]

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/402504/322086
related to preventing updates. sadly steam has no "don't update this" feature anymore.

[eugene]

Thank you!

[a21pardo]

Gift from god my man, using this for black parade

[Johnr9]

Merry Christmas everyone I have decided to remove the Google Drive link as it does not seem to be working anymore. Let me know if anyone has any issues with the OneDrive link.

[YourLocalFemboyWithADHD :3]

you're a godsent

[Bastard]

you're such a gentleman, John. Thanks for this

[panmuerto]

onedrive is working, thank you very much

[Johnr9]

I tried sharing the file from my OneDrive account. Anyone having issues with the Google Drive link please try the OneDrive link. For me it works fine in an incognito window so it should work even if you are not signed into a Microsoft account.