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Newbie here, please help...

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First post, by Franklinsteiner

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I'm trying to get a classic graphical adventure game called Discworld II: Missing Presumed to work and i have downloaded the DosBox thinking it could help me play it, because when I load up the game, the developer and publisher logos appear as usual, but when it gets to the title screen, the picture appears, but suddenly blacks out with a message appearing, saying "Direct Draw, cannot do something-or-other with DirectDraw services" or something like that, heh.
I figured this had something to do with the fact it wasn't running on an MS-DOS-based machine (I got Windows XP). Could anyone help me? The tutorials in the Guides section are confusing and speak of login names and stuff like that....

I downloaded the very first downloadablre choice on the website's Download section (windows).

Reply 1 of 2, by wd

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So are you running the game under dosbox or not?
In the second case see the guides and tutorials on the forum.

Reply 2 of 2, by flux

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Well, you could wait untill scummVM supports The dicworld series (there working on it 😀 .) Are there any graphical options in the setup? Have you tryed using a front-end for dosbox? Thats how I got it working on xp.

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