Last time I checked LoL:Throne of Chaos worked properly. Make sure you have it patched to latest version (1.23 US I think).

I did the patch too...

Works fine here. Dynamic core with 10000 cycles. Athlon XP 1800+ under Windows XP SP2.

Did you run setup.exe for configuring sound?

I chose plain SB for both music and digitised samples.

I'm going to go out on a limb here...could it be the rip? 😕 I own the original CD and it works fine.

Once I figure out what this error is I can probably run the game fine on Dosbox or VDMSound.

This is the VDMSound error which is similar to the DosBos error:

Loading 'VDDLoader.dll'...
Lands of Lore CD - SkyFish release
EMS = 0 XMS = 16627680
IO error with STARTUP.PAK <2> - exiting

Mine is the floppy version. It seems your startup.pak may be corrupted somehow. IO error seems to be a different way of saying "file not found". I would check for that file and I would also check for file attributes, specially read-only.

I just purchased the CD, cause I love and miss this game so much, and I am still getting an IO startup.pak2 error, and a XMS, EMS message.

I am running XP

Any ideas? 😀

I am using the floppy version and it doesn't have a startup.pak, maybe that is something from the cd version only? I have several .pak files such as Chapter1.pak through Chapter8.pak or intro.pak but not the one in your error message.
I noticed that you are mounting a drive B

Drive B is mounted as local directory C:\Games\

If you are mounting that as your cd it might think it is a floppy instead of a cd since it indicates B: as the drive letter. That's why you get the removable drive not supported message.
Try doing something like below, where D is the letter assigned to the cd in DosBox and F:\ is your actual cd letter.

mount d f:\ -t cdrom

Install if from d: after mounting that drive and see if it works

Local Disk C:
My CD/DVD drive is E: ( where I put the LOL cd in )
3 1/2 Floppy A:
cd-rw drive is D:

This is all I have.

I typed your commands and when I get there I hit intall and it goes to the menu, english and:

It is asking me for source disk: E

Destination Disk: C

Destination directory

Could not make the destination directory

You should use a mount -cd command inside DOSBox. It will display a list of available physical cd/dvd drives to use in conjunction with the -usecd <#> parameter for the mount command.

E.g. mount d e:\ -t cdrom -usecd 1 -ioctl -label LORE

😎

I actually got the cd to work without dosbox or vdmsound, but the music won't play. I can hear them talk and hear the rest of the sounds though.

Any reason why this might be, I chose Soundblaster in setup.

Probably because your not using VDMSound.......

I tried, says CD Drive not found.

> I tried, says CD Drive not found.

Somewhere in the LaunchPad settings, there is checkbox for "Enabled low-level CD-ROM support". Tried it?

The Launpad is a .dll file, and when I right click and go to properties I see nothing of what you have mentioned MiniMax.

He's talking about VDMSound's Launchpad feature. You need to learn about it and how to use it in order to use VDMSound effectively.

The Underdogs version works perfectly for me.

Some random dosbox.conf settings:
core=full
cycles=5000
xms=true
ems=true

I'm pretty sure I'm using the default soundblaster config options. I picked Soundblaster Pro from the game's setup.

The game seems to have to map itself to drive B so if you're already using that drive letter for something else you're out of luck.

Original CD works fine here with 0.63, dumped the disc to an ISO image - no more annoying pauses to read data from the CD. Also, I don't know if this helps, but the game looks to the E:\ drive for the CD, so you should mount your CD/image there.