I'll just chime in here with this: fan patches are something that GOG.com can rarely include with our releases. In some situation where the fan fix was authored solely by one person and that person is well known and easy to contact, it's possible that we can ask that author and receive her or his permission to use the fix--if the pubblisher / developer that we're distributing the game for allows it as well. Other times, it's very hard to decide who created the fan fix, whether it's essential, whether some people might want to use other fan fixes, whether that fan fix work on all OSes, and et cetera.

You can see this is a complex issue.

Please don't think that we're not aware of the fan fixes; as it happens, several of the GOG staff--me included!--are big fans of the Thief games and have used those same fixes on their own installs of Thief: Gold and Thief 2: The Metal Age. But we're not currently able to include these well-known fixes for the ever=popular "legal and licensing issues". Our apologies if you don't like it, but whenever legal issues get involved with business, the result is usually rather like a camel: a product of compromise, not inspiration.

A new build should be up that addresses cinematic and Direct3D issues.

Or you can get necessary files from here:
http://files.gog.com/support/thief_gold_video_fix.zip

Installer should just run out-of-box now.

And here I even stickied your Echo Sector thread ;_;

;)

Yeah. Timeslip is outside help, not a GOG staff member. And, as he points out in that forum thread, he doesn't own all the rights to the code in the fix he worked on.

Thus, "it's complicated."