Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too).

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

nothing new, installs as planned.

Using fronted, it doesn't open. Mounting everything manually, it opens (gives me the joystick configue screen) and crashs when trying to save the config.

FILE CREATE ERROR: joystick.cfg ERRNO: 1

Why is it so hard to read??

MiniMax wrote:

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

The letters are too small i guess 😀

Possible solution for op:

copy all directories from cd to your ad dir (DAT,DEV,GFX,SFX,TXT,VFX) and just overwrite the old files. This enables you to play without the cd (my version has no cd-check). Then run setup from dosbox and configure the sound. You may want to download the update as well. Then run with AD2.exe or ADD4G2.exe

Over to my own problem; I get this beautiful game to run very good overall - smooth graphics, mouse, joystick, some crackling sound during cutscenes but the 3d-action runs flawlessly. The problem is that the game crashes frequently AFTER the mission finishes (probably during transition from 3D to 2D). I am using the ADD4G2.exe which uses the DOS4GW DosExtender. If I can't get this beauty to work I might have to dig up an old PII-233 with a voodoo2.....

Edit: after some more testing I have found that the game runs much smoother in windowed mode than in full-screen. No cracking sound and skipping between transitions. I haven't been able to recreate a crash when running in windowed mode either..... 😐

Edit 2: After some digging in the config file I found that setting
"fulldouble=true" removes any sound cracking and no crashes after some testing 😎

exactly like in the step by step:
C: "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Elias.PC_VON_ELIAS\Eigene Dateien\DOSBox stuff\SF"
D: "D:\"

I did not configure sound nor video so far. It installs, it quits. Then, I start the game, the joystick thing starts, I configure the joystick, it crashes when trying to save the config.

Why aren't you mounting the cdrom as cdrom?

We tried wd, we really tried. I told him to follow my guide and he choose to ignore it. In return I say we ignore him.

well I mounted it as cdrom using the Drive D. Mounting as a CDrom does work via -t cdrom doesn't it?

EDIT: Oh crap, now I know what you are refering too. I didn't write the t cdrom in my previous post.
Well 😜 , I did mount it as D "D:\" -t cdrom, evidence for that is that I managed to install the thing correctly.

I currently have the same problem as Captain Amazing. I installed AD in DosBOX and patched it there. Then I replaced the dos4gw.exe by dos32a.exe (otherwise I got the crash described here: Archimedean Dynasty)

Now the game runs smoothly and I get into the first battle, destroy the ship and then autopilot becomes available, so I press alt+a, first the water darkens and then the whole screen. But then before the next scene the game freezes. As output I always get:

1DOSBox version 0.72
2Copyright 2002-2007 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
3---
4CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Programme\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf
5MIDI:Opened device:win32
6Illegal write to 726f6376, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
7Illegal write to 726f6377, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
8Illegal write to 726f6378, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
9Illegal write to 726f6379, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
10Illegal write to 61726f74, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
11Illegal write to 61726f75, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
12Illegal write to 61726f76, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
13Illegal write to 61726f77, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
14Illegal write to 3813180c, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
15Illegal write to 3813180d, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
16Illegal write to 3813180e, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
17Illegal write to 3813180f, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
18Illegal write to 3813180c, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
19Illegal write to 3813180d, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
20Illegal write to 3813180e, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
21Illegal write to 3813180f, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
22Illegal write to 3813180c, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
23Illegal write to 3813180d, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
24Illegal write to 3813180e, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
25Illegal write to 3813180f, CS:IP      830:  1cbf53
26Exit to error: DynCore: illegal option in dyn_load_seg_off_ea

Configuration is as follows:

1# This is the configurationfile for DOSBox 0.72.
2# Lines starting with a # are commentlines.
3# They are used to (briefly) document the effect of each option.
4
5[sdl]
6
7fullscreen=false
8fulldouble=true
9fullresolution=original
10windowresolution=original
11output=surface
12autolock=true
13sensitivity=100
14waitonerror=true
15priority=higher,normal
16mapperfile=mapper.txt
17usescancodes=true
18
19[dosbox]
20
21language=
22machine=vga
23captures=capture
24memsize=16
25
26[render]
27
28frameskip=0
29aspect=false
30scaler=normal2x
31
32[cpu]
33
34core=auto
35cycles=auto
36cycleup=500
37cycledown=20
38
39[mixer]
40
41nosound=false
42rate=22050
43blocksize=2048
44prebuffer=10
45
46[midi]
47
48mpu401=intelligent
49device=default
50config=
51
52[sblaster]
53
54sbtype=sb16
55sbbase=220
56irq=7
57dma=1
58hdma=5
59mixer=true
60oplmode=auto

61oplrate=22050
62
63[gus]
64
65gus=true
66gusrate=22050
67gusbase=240
68irq1=5
69irq2=5
70dma1=3
71dma2=3
72ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
73
74[speaker]
75
76pcspeaker=true
77pcrate=22050
78tandy=auto
79tandyrate=22050
80disney=true
81
82[joystick]
83
84joysticktype=auto
85timed=true
86autofire=false
87swap34=false
88buttonwrap=true
89
90[serial]
91
92serial1=dummy
93serial2=dummy
94serial3=disabled
95serial4=disabled
96
97[dos]
98
99xms=true
100ems=true
101umb=true
102keyboardlayout=none
103
104[ipx]
105
106ipx=false
107
108[autoexec]
109
110mount d: f:\ -t cdrom
111mount c: c:\ad
112c:
113mouse2kv 640 480 8 8 add4g2

System:
Intel Pentium M, 2 GHz 512 MB Ram
Win XP Pro SP3
Ati Mobility Radeon X700

I tried the following to fix the problem:
fulldouble=true (as suggested by Captain Amazing)
Fixed cycles and disabling stuff as suggested in the readme.
Disabled sound (in config and with setsound)
Fullscreen and Window Mode

With the normal ad2 I get a crash due to the Causeway extender.

I was trying the whole day yesterday so maybe anybody got a solution here. If you need more information please let me know and I'm happy to provide it.

Thanks in advance,
Schoki

Edit: I also played an Instant Action game, worked perfectly fine and returned to the menu as planned.