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[Tina]

I have experienced the same problem as others in here concerning the message:
"you need a CD rom drive to play this game"
For me pressing "f" or having a CD in my drive didnt do anything.
So I've tried to follow some of the instructions in here.. but...

I still can't get it to work!

I have the original game. I can install it and play it - without sound because the game doesnt recognize my soundsystem. So I figured if i try it throug the dosbox -it could simulate the Soundblaster system and i could get sound...

I'm no Dosbox wizard and I'm not sure I understand fully how it works - hope thats not required!!
But I have the game installed on my hard drive d:. When I open dosbox and try to run main.exe from my d-drive. The missing CD rom drive message pops up and I go nowhere.
Then I've tried to run setup (by dragging setup.exe onto dosbox.exe) but it stops after detecting sound - again nowhere.

In dosbox I've tried to mount drive c as my CD-rom drive, which is e:
Then I've mounted drive d as my d-drive - where the game is installed.
Now I can roam around in the game's directory (both e: and d and I've tried to install it again from there. This worked fine in the beginning - but when it comes to "detecting video system" it can't accsess (?) benchmark files and the install/setup stops.
When I type "main.exe" from "within" dosbox it says: setup needs to run first (or something like that) - but i cant complete setup!!!

I know this is an long. long explanation, but this is the only way I can do it..
hope anyone understands what I have done, and would like to do!!

Any help is welcome!

Thanks

That suggestion seems to work: Change the Main.EXE memory properties all to auto! What remains for me to solve is when I run Setup.EXE, and wish to have sound, I get the error :"Cannot find HDETECT.PIF". Where do I get HDETECT.PIF from? (Only the .EXE is present)

I guess somehow the HDETECT.PIF file was created, so I don't have this problem. But now I am just unable to play sound effects. After selecting some sound card from setup, when I run MAIN.EXE, it gives the error (but still runs the game): "Cannot find sound card specified". So there's no sound FX in the game.

Originally posted by raiyne@Feb 2 2005, 06:55 PM
hey i have a question for everyone. what is dos box?

and when i run kyrandia 3, i get this message:


Insufficient EMS or XMS memory available.
2.5 megabytes of EMS or XMS are required to run.

... and i have no idea what do. i'm using windows XP. and suggestions would be much appreciated

Go to your Legend Of Krandia 3 folder and right click on the setup - properties- compatibility put Windows 95 for that..... click on the Setup and use "tab" and click "no digital sound" save it. Now right click on the Main.exe -properties - Memory - where it says EMS choose 16384 do the same for XMS and then run the game clicking on MAIN.exe.

Originally posted by Guest_Reaver@Feb 18 2005, 08:29 PM
That suggestion seems to work: Change the Main.EXE memory properties all to auto! What remains for me to solve is when I run Setup.EXE, and wish to have sound, I get the error :"Cannot find HDETECT.PIF". Where do I get HDETECT.PIF from? (Only the .EXE is present)

HDETECT.PIF is already in the folder . I think the .INI needs to be changed.

Just change the EMS memory in the HDETECT.PIF and HVERIFY to make that error go away. I still haven't gotten sound to work doing that though.

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[Nyerguds]

For sound issues, use VDMSound before trying DOSBox. VDMS uses much less system resources and requires far less configuration.

[Compmouse]

I'm having some issues with the setup. I'm using DOSBox, and I extracted the folder as is the the same place that I put all my DOS games. When I run the "setup" it gives me a blank screen. When I hit enter it then pops me out of the black screen and back to the c:\ prompt giving me the error "Could not find gadget shapes."

Currently Running:
WindowsXP SP2
Sound Blaster Pro
DOSBox

[rabadi]

The game should be working nicely without DOSBox. I played it with WinXP without SP2 back then.