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First post, by mcdiva

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I've recently had a craving to play my copy of daggerfall, given to me by my beloved sibling, I also use dosbox for this, however, after I create a character, I get the intro (spell book, telling me about doom and stuff) then the intro with the warrior guy and his bald mage friend (friend of the kings, real people video) after that I get a black screen and thats it, I messed around with the settings of both z.cfg (I did a huge install, and set arena2 as the cdrom drive in dosbox, the arena2 directory also has all the required files in it, and is set as the cdrom drive in the cfg file, thus it is recognized as d:\ (cdrom drive) in dosbox, not arena2, same goes for the actual game, c:\dagger it gets merely registered as c:\) perhaps that is the problem? I am most certainly a layman at best when it comes to these problems, but I appreciate any help anyone can provide! :cool:

Reply 1 of 11, by mirekluza

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Do you use the latest patch for the game? The game was famous for its bugginess.

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Reply 2 of 11, by mcdiva

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I think I did, but I'll try again.

Reply 3 of 11, by mcdiva

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yeah I applied the patch, still no luck. I have to alt tab to switch to the first dosbox screen, then I have to end program as it will tell me it's not responding.

Reply 5 of 11, by mcdiva

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surface output, I didn't test anything with the output.

The console debugger didn't mention anything.

Reply 6 of 11, by mcdiva

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I'm also running winxp.

Reply 7 of 11, by DosFreak

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A black screen....When it switches from the character setup/menu system there's a brief black screen but it's almost not even noticeable. Monitor your task manager and see if your using too much processor time.

I would say switch to dyanmic but at least under my build Daggerfall is unstable with DOS4GW/DOS32A.

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Reply 8 of 11, by mcdiva

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The task manager states that it's at full use (that is, the square at the bottom right hand corner is bright green :surprised: ) So maybe too much memory is allocated to dosbox?

Reply 9 of 11, by mcdiva

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I changed the frameskipping to 2 and I actually got it to work. Though it's a bit choppy, what I'm going to do is highten the rate to get into the first dungeon, then, bring it back to 0.

Reply 10 of 11, by mcdiva

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Well that didn't work, and the games back to not working again, even with the new settings, same thing agian. Wow.

Reply 11 of 11, by mcdiva

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I've also tried running it outside of dosbox, using the nocd trick with the z.cfg file. What happened is the same thing, the game works until I get finished the character creation, I get to see the videos and then a black screen forever...well for 3 minutes anyway, that's how long I waited. So it's not a dosbox issue, it's an issue with my copy, I dearly hope it's not damaged!