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Mission Critical: Can't Save??

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First post, by Phod

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I'm using DOSBOX to run Mission Critical. Very modern machine and I use DOSBOX to run a bunch of other stuff flawlessly but Mission Critical is giving me an issue. I'm using DFEND Reloaded as a front end but I even tried just doing it via DOSBOX and manually mounting drives etc and same issue.

It launches fine, video runs fine, starts the actual game fine.

However, before it asks for Disc 2 it says "CAN'T OPEN C:\MISSION\RESTART.DAT"

Then, when I try to save my game it says "CAN'T OPEN C:\MISSION\MC000.SAV"

So I can't save.

I've never had this issue with other games.

Any ideas?

My games are just put in a C:\GAMES\DOS directory so it shouldn't be some weird protection issue. Plus all other games have saved just fine, this is the first one to have problems.

Reply 1 of 2, by Phod

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Sigh.. okay I solved it. Apparently Mission Critical is very fussy about the directory and normally I just associate C with the game directory but it didn't like that, it wants to be associated with the root, which is understandable. Works fine now that I made that change.

I'm dumb.

Carry on 😀

Reply 2 of 2, by SKARDAVNELNATE

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Phod wrote:

I just associate C with the game directory but it didn't like that

Always use the same mount path that you used when installing the game.

Phod wrote:

it wants to be associated with the root

Don't mount the root of your harddrive. Use a subfolder and make that the mounted path.

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