I warn you. Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager is ridden with bugs. I don't know if patches exist, but you should definitely look for them.

is there maybe a missing saves directory ?
try making a direcoty saves in darksun2

ive already seen alot of its bugs, such as in the first level trying to go into the sorrows on the sidequest everytime i try to go through the wall where the umber hulks kidnapped people... it just sends me in an endless loop to the begining of the sorrows.. tried making a save directory.. seems to be working will keep updated thanks. I'm looking for patches now.

ok, ive given up, really, i have! I cant finish darksun 2 because of its incessant bugs, dont know if its just my version or not. Now i cant get into the bottom levels of the mines because of the same looping problem i encountered in the sorrows.. ive tried three different patches none of them worked, if anyone knows where i can get a good version download of dark sun 2 please.. im desperate 🤣.. thanks.

p.s.
any good freeware sites?

Maybe your savegames has been saved corrupted beyond repair and that's why the patches don't work, who knows. Been a long time since i played it, and i still remember those annoying bugs. 😁

I realize this is an older topic to post on, but I have a related question and I'm hoping some of the people who originally wrote this will reply.

I don't have any issues with the game yet, because I can't get the game ro run.

I have the CD Version that they released as a the Masterpiece Collection (they are patched, yay). Anyway, my problem is just getting the game ro run. I've tried it with and without D-Fend and maybe I just don't know enough about this to make this work, but can ANYONE help me. I want to get both running so I can start playing them both.

We need to know details: What did you do, what problems/errors did appear?
If you do not know anything about running games in DOSBOX, then read DOSBOX Guides (there is a newbie guide there).

Mirek

Okay, I get as reads

Mel Fatal Error #: 26 Trap #: 16
Mel Real Mode Version 2.2.7, 10/14/94
Error Message: DSP Detect Fail

That's what I get when I just try to run it in DosBox, mounting the F: drive as the CD Rom of course because it looks for that.

Now when I run it in D-Fend (a DosBox Win 32 Frontend) I've tried it with every setting I can imagine.

Render Modes:
Surface
Overlay
OpenGL
OpenGLib

Video Card:
VGA (Default doesn't show these games right, it screws with the colors)

Resolution:
Default

Scale:
none
Normal2x
advmame2

I have the amount of Dos Memory turned up to 256MB

Enable XMS
Enable EMS

CPU Clock Cycles
10000

CPU Core
Dynamic

I hope this is enough information, I'm sorry so much of it is from a front end but I'm really not comfortable with some of the memory modes and such in Dos. I know how to work my way around it, not work too much with it. Sometimes I just miss my old 486 Windows 95 machine, but that ran this game poorly too 🤣 😀

If anyone can help, please do so, I just wanna play the game.

dsp thingie => sound problem

try configuring the game run without sound or disable the dynamic core.

sound detection under dynamic core is not reliable.
Lower also the amount of memory to 32 mb

I have tried it on full as well... but I'll try what you said so far tomorrow 😀 Thanks.

Hmmm forgive me for another post, but I did just try it with the memory turned down, and the processor on normal, it flashes my screen black, then goes away... never been so frustrated.

tried configuring the game without sound ?

haven't yet, part of the reason I wanted to get the CD version (and I did) was for the sounds and voices 😀 but I'll try that tonight 😀. Be nice to just play this.

Had the same problem
Went to the ravager folder in the c drive and type "sound" in the prompt
Set up sound again and game ran but now have another problem the keyboard is not working in game.
Doing a search right after this but anyone have any ideas?

I am having troubles getting the game to run as well, I get "file not found path = " followed by a long string of ascii characters
The command I am using for dosbox to run is
C:\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.exe -fullscreen -c "MOUNT C C:\RAVAGER" -c "MOUNT d d:\ -t cdrom" -c "C:"

I've even tried taking out RAVAGER so that it just mounts C:\ but I get the same message.

Any ideas?

NM that. I was running DSUN not Ravager. It is working but very strangely. The opening movie sound came on but the screen was blank. Then after that was done the movie played without sound. Only thing I can think is that I chose to load the video and sound at the time of install and not "When needed"

You might want to try just monting C: and D: (instead of C:\RAVAGER and D: ) and then re-installing the game from within DOSBox. If that works, make sure to mount the same way from then on (might want to put the commands in the autoexec section of your dosbox.conf or whatever)

I got the game to run, it is a little (a lot actually) choppy in the movement of the characters and the movement of the mouse but it works. And I found a parameter to add to the batch file so that the intro does not play, that way I wont have to listen to it and then watch it before the main menu comes up. 😀

Sigurd wrote:

The opening movie sound came on but the screen was blank. Then after that was done the movie played without sound.

I have a vague memory of having problems with intro when mounting CD without -ioctl or -aspi (standard SDL CD ROM support is not enough here).

Mirek