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Problem with CD-Games, can be installed, but won´t find the cd later

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First post, by Parker Lewis

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Hello!
I use DosBox0,70. I tried to start the games SCREAMER 2 (german: bleifuss 2) and ALONE IN THE DARK 3. The can be installed from CD in DOSBOX, but when I want to start them, the games tell me taht they cannot find the CD. What shall i do?

I entered these commands:(doxboxconf)

mount c e:\
mount d j:\

c:

e is my drive with the games and j my dvd-rom. i also tried to use the burner (i), but it´s the same problem
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The following are things that should be in your help request:

Motherboard
i don´t know
Processor type and speed
1,8 ghz amd athlon
Amount and type of RAM
256 mb
Video board w/ RAM amount and type
geforce 5500 128 mb
Sound board
on board
Operating system
win xp
Game name (and version, if applicable)
screamer 2, alone in the dark 3

Reply 1 of 10, by Kippesoep

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Try mounting the CD by adding "-t cdrom" to the mount command. Or even "-ioctl". This is all in the README by the way.

Reply 2 of 10, by Parker Lewis

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ok AITD3 works now. sry id didn´t read the read me. but screamer 2 stays with a black screen, in low grafics it still says taht there is no cd. here is what i wrote:
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c e:\
mount d j:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -usecd 0 -label

c:
cd b2

Reply 3 of 10, by wd

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Well the label is missing, check the cdrom's volume label.
And please post what "mount -cd" outputs.

Reply 4 of 10, by Parker Lewis

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it says:
mscdex installed
drive d is mounted as CDrom j:\

i don´t get what label i shall enter. where can i check it?

Reply 5 of 10, by MiniMax

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Parker Lewis wrote:

it says:
mscdex installed
drive d is mounted as CDrom j:\

It says that when you enter the command mount -cd (with a minus, a c and a d?)

Parker Lewis wrote:

i don´t get what label i shall enter. where can i check it?

Open "My Computer" and look at your J-drive when the CD is inserted. Does it show the name of the CD? Like SCREAMER2 ?

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Reply 6 of 10, by tannerstevo

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I run screamer 2 by mounting the cd as follows;

mount D D:\ -t cdrom -ioctl (my physical cd drive is D).

I have not had to use the -usecd or -label commands.
btw, cd label is SCREAM2.

Reply 7 of 10, by Parker Lewis

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i can run screamer 2 now, but it´s damn slow. wanna tell me what to do or shall i read the readme first? i already changed the cpu to "dyanamic" in dosbox.conf

Reply 8 of 10, by Parker Lewis

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Screamer 2

this thread also doesnt help me. maybe i´m to stupid?!

Reply 9 of 10, by ADDiCT

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Forget about using the SVGA mode, your CPU is too slow for that. Set core to "dynamic" (you probably already did that), and play around with the "cycles" setting. There's not much more else you can do. You could swap the DOS4GW executable with DOS/32A, but that will only get you a few percent more performance (if the increase is noticable at all). Best thing you could do in order to play Screamer full-speed and in High-Res is to buy a new system. (; I'm not fond of the recent "hardware-hysteria", but 256MB RAM and a 1.8Ghz CPU is _really_ low-end nowadays.

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