Some people (well at least one) found that using VDos32 helps.

Hello!

When i run Glidos with VDos32, this box appears:

What does it mean?
anybody has the same problem?

Thanks!

I run under XPPro

Is that Tombraider you are trying to run? If so, what method did you use to install it? It is best to use the archive from the Glidos web site.

Yes it is Tomb Raider, installed in C:\TOMBRAID folder....

But this problem does not appear when i don't use Vdos32...I try Vdos32 because of the saves crashes.

Yeah, but how did you you install it? Did you use the archive from the website? That error suggests that it is an altered exe file.

Not from the web site, it's the first cd of the "Lara Croft Tomb Raider Collection".

Should i change my tomb.exe file ?

Yeah. Delete the whole of the TOMBRAID folder, and use the preconfigured archive from the Glidos web site. I expect they've fiddled with the exe a bit to get around some problems with XP or Vista, but you don't want any of those fiddles when running under VDos32.

It would be handy if you could send me your Tomb.exe, and then I might be able to update VDos32 to work with that too, so others don't run into the same problem.

But i am not sure that this is the TOMB.exe which make Vdos32 crash...

How can i send you this file? By Mail?
Moreover, there is also a tombub.exe file. Do you want it too?

A last question, a stupid one! Where can i find the preconfigured archive on Glidos site?

For the preconfigured archive, use this link

It is likely to be your tomb.exe that is causing the crash. Send it if you can.

Bad news: your Tomb.exe works fine for me here.

Perhaps its the audio set up. In any case, using the preconfigured archive is your best choice: it rules out lots of potential problems.

Ok so i 'm going to try again.

And what about the audio pack, only the 6 first levels are concerned by this pack aren't they?

Thanks for all
😊

int21/f2 is a netware call, maybe the configuration file has some networking
enabled? Maybe just ignore f2 in vdos32.

PolanX wrote:

And what about the audio pack, only the 6 first levels are concerned by this pack aren't they?

Not quite, the pack first and foremost restores the few ambient tracks from the PC version in the entire game. As a "bonus", it also adds the missing cues from the PS1 version, but that's a work-in-progress (more like a stall-in-progress right now, but it ain't over till it's over).

Precisely. Also the Audio packs don't interact with VDos32, so there is no risk of them adding to your problems.

wd wrote:

int21/f2 is a netware call, maybe the configuration file has some networking
enabled? Maybe just ignore f2 in vdos32.

Oh right. Weird! I wonder what would be causing Tomb.exe to make Netware calls?

Does the cs:ip pair make sense? Is it pmode32 when that window comes up?
Maybe it just went off and incidently hit some int21 call.

wd wrote:

Does the cs:ip pair make sense? Is it pmode32 when that window comes up?
Maybe it just went off and incidently hit some int21 call.

Yeah, looks ok. VDos32 can only run protected mode code. It handles the loading of 16bit pmode drivers, but it can't run realmode code (not yet anyway - I think I've found a trick 😁 ). When cs = 1b, its just using the Windows app code segment.

Maybe just put up a debug version that ignores 0xf2 calls of int21
to see if it works then. Didn't find any call to this function or similar
code in the executables for this though, so it might just have crashed.