First post, by The Lord
Game: Chinese, supposedly a simulation/strategy game whose name translates directly as "Emperor". As I never once successfully got it working, I really can't offer much more information.
Symptom displayed is the notorious "segmentation fault" crash.
After starting, the game displays a "pre-game" blue screen which shows a message by the cracker/s, proclaiming this game to be a "definitely playable" version, and telling me to press any key to continue. When I comply, I'm then treated to a blank dark screen with a single cursor prompt blinking at the very top. If I leave it alone, it will probably go on blinking at me forever. So I press enter, and then the game promptly exits with a "segmentation fault" error. (I believe this game is actually playable though, since many people have downloaded the same version before, and played on earlier versions of Windows with no problem.)
I've tried this game on DOSBox repeatedly from DOSBox v6.0 to 6.2, under software and D3D mode, with default resolution, and Sound Blaster 1 to
Pro2, all with no luck. It's a protected mode game, probably using DOS4GW 1.97, but the game exits at the same place when I try to run it directly under Windows. I've also already tried loadfix, with or without XMS, EMS, and basically all other types of basic settings in DOSBox that I can think of. Loading the game folder as Drive C and/or CD-ROM didn't help either.
Just hoping someone here would be able to help me, or let me know for sure that I'll have to wait for the next or future version of DOSBox to try this game again.
System Specs:
P4 2.8
512 DDR SDRAM
SiS 650 (64 shared vram)
Avance AC97
WinXP Home SP2, and 1, and none (By chance, tried
running the game under all three conditions)
