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Daggerfall again. I tried.

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First post, by Morsigil

Posted on 2005-11-09, 00:35

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I did a search of all the topics but the only thing I found was a post by someone with a similar problem to mine but no clear answer.

Daggerfall says I don't have enough room to install the game and when I try to direct it to my C drive where I have plenty of room it does not detect any drives.

I know there is the loadfix command but I am confused as to how I'm supposed to use that. Am I supposed to make it eat up like my entire 160 gig harddrive so I thinks I only have 500 megs, just enough for the full install and some change?

And why wouldn't it detect my drive?

I would appreciate your help. I've got some mad cravings for this game.

Reply 1 of 3, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-11-09, 02:02

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Loadfix uses up conventional memory for games that can not deal with the amount of conventional memory that DosBox offers. (You'd rarely see the amount of conventional memory that DosBox offers in MS-DOS unless you either removed everything from your config.sys/autoexec or if you had a highly optimized config/autoexec with 3rd party utilities).

Loadfix has nothing to do with your problem. DaggerFall is complaining because DosBox reports that you only have 110mb of free space (this is for older games that do not like the gigabytes that modern hard drives have).

To report a higher amount of free space to Daggerfall you have to use the -freesize switch in conjunction with mount. so: "Mount c c:\ -t freesize 600". Would mount your C:\ drive and report 600mb of free space.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Morsigil

Posted on 2005-11-09, 04:31

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Wow. You're better than sex.

Exactly like that? It's not liking it as it is. It says freesize is an illegal type.

Reply 3 of 3, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-11-09, 04:38

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heh. Sorry:

"mount c c:\ -freesize 600"

-t <whatever> specifies what you want the emulated mountpoint to be. (HD,Floppy,CD), in this case it's nothing you need to use for Daggerfall. Don't know why my hands decided to type it....

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