jami3rez wrote on 2025-04-26, 07:00:

I’ve followed the steps here - https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Running_Without_CD

But it doesn’t work, when I run the command I get the message ‘You must run dagger.exe from the hard drive’.

What should I be trying next?

Daggerfall Unity is the next place you should go:

https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity/tags

https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unit … aggerfall-unity

https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unit … -Cross-Platform

Daggerfall checks that mscdex is loaded, and then checks for the correct volume name. That's it.

It's easy to use disc images.

jami3rez wrote on 2025-04-26, 07:00:

I’ve followed the steps here - https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Running_Without_CD

But it doesn’t work, when I run the command I get the message ‘You must run dagger.exe from the hard drive’.

What should I be trying next?

Did you follow absolutely everything to the letter in that? Because after copying stuff that the installer doesn't install to the drive and then changing various paths around in the Z.CFG and then running FALL.EXE Z.CFG it never asks for the CD. Do NOT run DAGGER.EXE!

the path and pathCD need to be set accordingly to the exact full path where the ARENA2 directory was:

1type dfall_huge
2path C:\dagger\arena2\
3pathCD C:\dagger\arena2\
4fadecolor 0
5mapfile d
6rendergame 1
7user 1
8startMap 179
9region 17
10helmet 0
11maxSpeed 200
12controls betaplyr.dat
13maps mapsave.sav
14CHEATMODE 1