type=none...
this means that you have no soundblaster emulated.

I have sound disabled to see if it helped the problem (which it didn't). Enabling it doesn't help either. I have the game configured with no sound as well.

Try xms=false, ems=false, both false, set the memsize
back to the default value etc.

You should use 'sbtype' instead of 'type' if you're using DOSBox 0.65. hwscale is already gone, too.
Recreate configuration file : config -wc 'configuration filename'

Thanks, that worked! 😁

enex, do you notice anything weird with the textures on buildings when in towns? So far that's the only issue I've noticed with DF in 0.65 (other than it being a little bit slow).

i'm currently re-playing Daggerfall under dosbox 0.65 and didn't noticed anything wrong with textures in town.

the only problem i got, is the incredibly slow performance when using dynamic core....disabling Gravis emu and switching to normal core let me play at a raisonnable speed, enough to have a rather good game experience.

I haven't seen any texture oddities in town. The game looks normal and plays a bit slowly (particularly indoors). I've had the best results for Daggerfall using a CVS build with timesync in WinXP. 0.65 doesn't seem to play it as well as 0.63.

I've seen graphic anomalies underneath the cursor sometimes (for instance when a dialog box pops up, there will be a bit of underlying texture on the pointer). Can't remember if that was DOSBox or straight DF + VDMSound.

Thanks, looks like it's probably a core=dynamic issue then (I'm running in WinXP). I'll try core=normal and see what happens.

Also, now that billoute mentions it, I remember I wasn't able to get GUS emulation working with DF for some reason. It works fine with Arena.

Update: Autolock seems broken. When running Daggerfall in DOSBox 0.65 in windowed mode, I go to the race selection screen and click on it, and it doesn't autolock the mouse cursor even though autolock=true is set in dosbox.conf.

Also, the game runs much smoother in core=normal. The videos are very very choppy though. I'm going to go to a fixed cycles setting instead of cycles=auto to see if that helps.

Hi

The game runs well until I finish the character creation and it's suposse to start the game. After the video where the emperor speak there is a permanent black screen.

This is my dosbox.conf :

[sdl]

fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=original
output=openglnb
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt
usescancodes=true

[dosbox]

language=
machine=vga
captures=capture
memsize=16

[render]

frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=none

[cpu]

core=normal
cycles=3500
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[mixer]

nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]

mpu401=none
device=none
config=

[sblaster]

sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]

gus=false
gusrate=22050
gusbase=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]

pcspeaker=false
pcrate=22050
tandy=auto
tandyrate=22050
disney=true

[bios]

joysticktype=none

[serial]

serial1=dummy
serial2=dummy
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled

[dos]

xms=false
ems=false
umb=true

[autoexec]

My pc:

Debian sarge 3.1
512 RAM
intel centrino 1.8 Ghz
Dosbox 0.65

Thanks

Well for one thing you'll never get the game running with 3500 cycles 😮 Try somewhere in the realm of 20000 and above. Also ems and xms don't need to be disabled, so leave those on for this game.

If I do that the game is even more slow. My intel centrino 1.8 Ghz reaches its 90% of use at 3500 cycles. It's annoying not be able to play the 3D games because my i810 is a crap and also don't be able to play old games because my chip it's too slowly. 🙁 the next time I buy a pc it will have the best or I don't buy 🙄

Anyway, thanks for your time 😀

cantico:

Try using Dynamic Core. Also, what videocard do you have? Try using different output= modes. I would start by using overlay and then ddraw. OpenGL has always given me problems, but it depends on your hardware. Your mileage may vary.

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The game runs well until I finish the character creation and it's suposse to start the game. After the video where the emperor speak there is a permanent black screen.

This is my dosbox.conf :
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Thanks

Ok, I KNOW I am necroing a very old thread, but stay with me. I registered just so I could post this. I was having trouble getting Daggerfall working in Kubuntu with Dosbox and I came across this post. Now, I was having the exact problem, and this is the only reference I could find using google which matched my problem.

I figured out it had to do with this line in my configuration file:

1mount c /data/Recreate/Games/Dosgames/games/dagger -freesize 1000

When I changed it to this I got it working:

1mount c /data/Recreate/Games/Dosgames/games -freesize 1000

(I omitted the other lines because they're not what was causing this)

So what was the problem? Well this is how I figure... I installed the game using a DIFFERENT mount for C. The mount I used was /games/, but the mount I used to launch Daggerfall was /games/dagger/. I think the daggerfall executable was trying to access c:\dagger\..., but that didn't exist because c:\ WAS c:\dagger.

You ask why did I use two different configurations? Well because I have two configuration files. One for installing and one to launch the game. I do this because I like to copy the CD files onto the HDD and mount em from there. I also did it because I was thinking it might be useful to have a common configration file for when I need to make one for a game.

Also want to add using scaler=advinterp3x helps with the visuals.

Anyway, since I know -I- googled this and found it usefull to know, I just had to register and post this here. Maybe someone else will find my solution useful.

Using different mounts for installing and playing is one of the top mistakes people do. Sure it works for a lot of games but it burns you for a lot as well.