First post, by Listos
MSI KT400 Ultra
AMD XP 2100+
1 gig PC2700 RAM
GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb DDR
Windows XP Professional
Ultima VII: The Complete Series
Problem #1: Please remove your expanded memory manager before playing Ultima VII.
Fix: I used old school techniques to get around this. I went into Windows\System folder and made copies of the Autoexec.nt and Configsys.nt. I then altered them like a boot disk and put them in the C:\Ultima7 folder according to old boot disk instructions that came with the game. I then went into the properties of the Ultima7.exe and told it to use the newly created Autoexe.bat and Config.sys.
Problem #2: After problem #1 was fixed I could get the game to play the intro at the correct speed and everything however no sound (sound I'm not particularly worried about at this point, I'll fight that battle later). At the end of the intro he jumps into a portal which should take you to the beginning of the game/menu screen. At this point the game crashes back to windows.
Attempted Fix for Problem #2: I assumed that at this point the game was supposed to read from the CD-ROM and couldn't, so crashed. I could be wrong here. I use Daemon Tools to create a virtual hard drive with all the information on the Ultima VII CD (Took an image of it using CloneCD then posted the image in Daemon Tools). All of this may be totally of base but I had no clue where to turn.
Surfing the net for more information I stumbled across DOSBox and thought I had the answer to my prayers. I attempted to play Ultima VII and got the Problem #1 error again.
Using DOSBox .60
I've read the readme and am totally confused (boot disks I'm good at, DOS commands not so much). Any suggestions?
Ultima VII: The complete series, is killing me...