You could try typing 'cycles max' and 'core dynamic' before you start the installer if that helps.

On an actual DVD drive the test seems to pass for me. Also, are you using DOSBox 0.74? It was only recently that this game started working without a lengthy workaround.

Nope, no luck with that 🙁

Well, it PASS the check in 0.74 for me... 30-40 seconds to check. Cycles=20000, core=auto.
Then I check X-Com: Apocalypse because same dos installer was used for it. Again - 30-40 seconds and the check is passed.

Hum... maybe its a problem with my bluray drive then... Everything else seems to work okay but I also bypass the checks most of the time, unfortunately this game wont let me.

Oh and I'm running on windows 7, DOSbox v 0.74 btw... the CD-rom drive itself... I dont really remember its specs other than that its a blu-ray burner

exact mount lines please

Mount c c:\
Mount d d:\

I also tried installing it on my laptop, it only has a DVD drive, I had the same problem there too

please read a guide on how to use dosbox or type "intro"
You need a more complicated mount line for the cdrom.

Yay! it worked!
I used the mount line
mount d d:\ -t cdrom -label STARTREK
and it worked... for some reason it wouldnt work without the label thing and I'm kinda a noob to this program, I dont really understand the -t thing 🤣 but thank you very much to all of you for your help and Im sorry to have troubled you

EDIT: Oh... -t... type. I'm an idiot

Its a bad idea mounting the root of your C drive as C: in Dosbox, I would change that if I were you. Your going to run into more problems in the future if you continue to use it this way.

I saw that it always says that but I never really understood why... but if it causes trouble I'll make a folder for my DOSbox stuff

dosbox will be slightly faster and it will be more secure.

Oh I see. Well speed has never been a problem for me, I've got a pretty beefy system but I'll do it anyway, thanks for all your help and sorry to have been a pest