| 25-02-2005 12:34 PM | |||
| The Fifth Horseman |
Since it was reviewed and uploaded , the reviewer has managed to launch the game succesfully... why not ask him/her? And BTW, I find the whole setting up the games pretty fun to do... it's just a little challenge to face before you can get challenged by the game itself. I'll see, think I downloaded it a while back from here, so I'll try to solve your problem for you. |
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| 25-02-2005 12:27 AM | |||
| cyborgwebmaster |
To: the_fifth_horseman and all who have replied and try to help. I really do think this is a cool site and a great place to find cool old games to play. Fifth Horseman I'm sorry about the typo. Didn't mean to be a pest about this whole dosbox thing. I would just think that before something is posted to play a game with that it should be debugged and troubleshooted prior to posting it to download. Would just make it alot easier. Wouldn't have to use a forum to post troubleshooting and related topics. Would be alot easier to just download DOSBOX, VDMSOUND or whatever and then download the game and get to playing. We be alot more enjoyable. But I do thank everybody for their assistance, advise and help. Thanks, Cy Maybe I'll do some more searching on the net and see if I can find other sources of troubleshooting. This just seems to take to long |
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| 24-02-2005 10:33 AM | |||
| The Fifth Horseman |
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 Allright, allright.For starters, you are thinking of standard Windoze installation procedure, which does not apply here. Most old games have their own setup programs that allow you to change sound and graphics settings (and, in a fair few cases, install the game to a different drive, but that means only copying all the files to a specified directory). You should look into the game directory and search for files like config, install, setup, setsound, setsnd, soundset with extensions like BAT, EXE and COM extensions. Try running it. If there is nothing of these filenames, are there any other BAT, EXE or COM files then the one you use to run the game? Try running them, naturally in DosBox. If this does not help, run the game normally, and look for options menu. Sometimes that's where the soundcard/graphics etc settings reside. Also you can search for files with names like config (without any extension), .cfg or .cnf and delete them (keep backups somwhere, however!). If the game does not find them, it will run internal setup of its own. Finally, it might help to run the game with a command line parameter, but these vary from game to game. You might try (executable) setup, (executable) config (executable) install or, if none of them work (executable) /?, (executable) -? or (executable) ?, and the game should display the list of possible command line parameters. That's all I can think of without even looking at the game in question. Fairly generic advice, but something of these should actually work. |
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| 24-02-2005 08:43 AM | |||
| Eagle of Fire |
Many people claim they can't manage to run DOSBox in Win98. Fact is, you probably don't need it anyways. Look at the quote at the end of the second post here. |
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| 23-02-2005 11:49 PM | |||
| cyborgwebmaster |
Windows 98 SE Compaq Presario Intel Pentium Processor SyncDRAM Memory 64 Bit Graphics with Direct3D JBL Speakers 3Gig I don't know what other system information you might want? Your saying to setup the came. I download the immortal and there is no game setup with that download. What are you referring to? Please offer any assistane that you can. I will provide more info if you tell me what your needing to know and where to find it on my machine. Thanks, Cy |
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| 23-02-2005 12:17 PM | |||
| The Fifth Horseman |
1. Try checking your output settings. Default should be surface. 2. If it runs too slow, you might have set the cycles over the capabilities of your computer. 3. No sound - either the game has no sound or you need to launch the game setup first to set it right. I also recommend you set the soundcard emulation of your DosBox to Sound Blaster 16 or Pro, these should work allright. Pro 2 seems to have issues with most games. And yes, post the parameters of your machine. The more we know the more we can help. |
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| 23-02-2005 12:09 PM | |||
| Rogue |
Tell us more about your computer (speed, memory....) If you are win98 user, we strongly recomend to use command prompr or rebote to dos prompt. There are couple good tutorials on net how to fix default dos install in win98 and how to configure it. |
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| 23-02-2005 04:18 AM | |||
| cyborgwebmaster |
Ok well, I found the solution for the failed msg rending output when starting DOSBOX. I upgraded thes sdl.dll file and took care of that. No longer getting error and DOSBOX runs and loads with no error. New issue: DOSBOX running very slow when loading and running game and no sound. Please anybody can you help? I am still looking around at other sources of information. I will post the location of the upgrade file for the sdl.dll file soon. I just want to get all this ironed out because I really want to play some of these old games that I use to play years ago. Thanks for any help that can be offered. |
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| 23-02-2005 03:29 AM | |||
| cyborgwebmaster |
Another note to add. If I just run thru the command prompt I can run the game on Win98 but no sound. How do I get the game to play with sound if running thru dos prompt. What exactly do I need to do. Please help if you can. |
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| 23-02-2005 02:37 AM | |||
| cyborgwebmaster |
Hey this is J.B. Registered now. Really would like to get dosbox running but keep getting the error. All I am changing in the config file is the autoexec portion per the instructions on this site and thats it. I get the error while trying to load dosbox, is there a location where the dosbox is a more trusted download and is there anything else I can do to keep from getting the error, games on here I would really like to play with sound but can't otherwise. Hope someone can help. |
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