First post, by mirrorshades
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...I've gone back through all the daggerfall posts in this forum for the past year and beyond, and only found one that mentions the same problem I'm having:
Daggerfall (I can get to character creation but.....) (No resolution was reached in that thread, it just ended.)
Basically, game starts up and runs OK with graphics and sound/music. I can do character creation and then view the two intro animations (the book and the meeting with the emperor)... then it goes to a black screen and just hangs there.
This is an extreme pain in the butt, since I have to go through the entire character creation process every time I make a change to see if it has any effect. :)
I have tried making the changes suggested in most of the other daggerfall-related posts; I tried changing the CPU core (dynamic/full/normal/auto), set cycles by hand and to auto, timesynched or not, different display modes (surface/overlay), frameskip (0-3), different scalars, and different DOSBox versions (0.65 and also ykhwong's CVS build from 10/15/06).
One thing I noticed when running ykhwong's build and setting cycles to auto is that the cycles drop way down at the point where it is sitting at the black screen -- they hover around 6000-6100. While running the rest of the char. creation / intro, it goes between 13000-21000 (-ish). CPU on my computer shows between 40-50% utilization when sitting at the black screen.
I'm fairly new to DOSBox, but not new to troubleshooting and R-ing the FM before I ask questions. However, I'm just about out of ideas and since I've heard success stories of getting this game working, I figured I'd ask you folks for some help.
If anyone actually took the time to read this whole thing, thank you. I will mail you a cookie if you send me your snail mail address. ;)
--> Edit:
A couple other things I thought of, may or may not make a difference.
1) I have Elder Scrolls: Arena working fine in DOSBox. Not sure if that would make a difference or not (I know they're a couple years apart).
2) Maybe someone could try sending me a savegame file? This way, I could try restoring directly into the game, possibly bypassing the point at which it is getting hung up.
3) I can also try the same config on a different computer -- I don't know if that kind of thing makes a difference in the DOSBox world or not.