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No saving in Daggerfall and other weird things

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First post, by Mothman

Posted on 2006-04-20, 18:04

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Hey folks,
I am trying to run Daggerfall on my PC via DOSBox and its all fine, just when i want to save, it crashes, saying it cant write on disk.

Now the weird thing is, there is no path of the game in the "z.cfg". Where it says "path" it just say ".\" behind that. The same with the CD path. When I now change the path in the cfg to where the game actually is located on my hard drive, DOSBox suddenly disappears when I want to start the game and I have to restart DOSBox.

What I did so far:
I already disabled "read only"
I mount the DOSBox drive now with at least 600MB free space.

So any ideas there?

Reply 1 of 9, by MusicallyInspired

Posted on 2006-04-20, 19:57

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DOSBox forum....DOSBox forum....

As for your problem, I don't know. I had a similar problem with Full Throttle and I couldn't get that to save either.

Reply 2 of 9, by Mothman

Posted on 2006-04-21, 07:55

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hmm, was that the last word?

Reply 3 of 9, by Lofty

Posted on 2006-04-22, 12:19

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Do you have something mounted as drive C: ?
(".\" just means current directory btw)

Reply 4 of 9, by Mothman

Posted on 2006-05-03, 14:38

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do i have to mount something as c? is that the default saving directory of Daggerfall?

Reply 5 of 9, by HunterZ

Posted on 2006-05-03, 18:52

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Let's make it easy:
- What version of DOSBox are you using?
- What exact mount settings did you use when installing the game?
- What path did you tell the game to install to?
- What install size did you choose?
- Did you install the patch?
- What exact mount settings are you trying to use to play the game?
- What command(s) are you trying to use to run the game?

Reply 6 of 9, by Lofty

Posted on 2006-05-04, 05:52

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Mothman: Don't know, but a few games do save config or savegames in C:\ or a folder in C: even if the game is installed somewhere else.

Reply 7 of 9, by Mothman

Posted on 2006-05-04, 17:22

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well... i didnt install it at all. I got it with a self-unpacking zip file

Reply 8 of 9, by Lofty

Posted on 2006-05-05, 00:21

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Installed/Unzipped to. Same thing in most cases, at least for DOS games. Anyway, if mounting something as C: doesn't help, obviously that's not the problem.

Reply 9 of 9, by HunterZ

Posted on 2006-05-05, 16:00

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I would recommend installing from CD or ISO - you've almost definitely got a path or missing files problem.

Maybe check your z.cfg and see if there are paths in there that need to be changed to point to the right place in your DOSBox mounting structure.

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