Have you tried the non steam , GoG version
And do you want to play the game or get it working on win98se
As dosbox will let you throttle the speed in increments until you’re satisfied with the game speed

I still have the original disc but can’t remember if it’s the dos version or the tweaked win95 version haven’t played it in over 25 years

I'll try the gog version and see if that changes things. I only want to run the game on my Windows 98 pc. It's too slow for Dosbox.

If you aren't trying for original experience and just want to play the game with the best possible performance I'd just recommend you play Daggerfall Unity on a modern machine. Which is free as well.

I would like to play the game on dos if possible.

Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-05-28, 16:07:

I would like to play the game on dos if possible.

I can see no reason whatsoever to play Daggerfall in DOS, cause it won't work well and it will be buggy, as it has a ton of bugs and stability issues. Daggerfall Unity is really the only way to properly experience and enjoy the game. You get better graphics, better music, bug fixes, and mods.

Halt!

Unity is nice but kind of breaks the magic feeling of DOS gaming. I too would prefer the original experience if at all possible. End of message.

Halt!

The original experience of Daggerfall...oh boy. Have "fun" is all I'll say.

The cleanest experience on bare metal, would come from the Bethesda hosted free download, I feel.

You will need a period correct rig.

(As others have pointed out, the game is INFAMOUSLY buggy. Trying to use 'the usual methods' to throttle a modern rig to those speeds, may well break it in newm previously unimagined ways.)

The suggestion to use Daggerfall Unity, is like suggesting OpenMW for Morrowind.

If you want 'the original expetience' there, go get a winxp machine with a geforce 2, and between 512 and 1gb of ram. Expect lots of crashes.

Same here. Get a 486, with about 8mb of ram. Run dos 6.22 on it. Expect crashes and glitches.

I would stand by the above. My attempt at getting the game run with a more modern rig in DOS resulted in jerky and unusable mouse controls, which practically bar one from being able to play, as fighting just didnt work right. Movement wise, in principle, it was tolerable. This was totally against my expectation of taking advantage of better gardware for smooth gameplay.

I think I was applying patches on top of the version from GoG though. Dont remember it being Bethesda...

E: He-he, I took notes

DOSBox runs Daggerfall better than original hardware. I run it with ~33000 fixed cycles (which should be in the ballpark of a 100MHz 486 or an original Pentium).

I tried getting this game running on a Celeron 300A system years ago and it was a headache

Thx for all your replies! I'll just have to be happy with super fast aiming on steroids. I appreciate the specs, explanations, and suggestions.