One thing you might check: Mechwarrior 2 uses CD-ROM music, and to my recollection, DOSBox doesn't seem to play CD music properly from actual CD-ROM drives. What I'd try instead is making a BIN/CUE image out of your copy of the game (try a program like ImgBurn to do that) and then use DOSBox's Imgmount command to mount it. Then I think you'll get the CD music as was intended.

Thanks, I will give that a try. Is there a link to any specific instructions I will ned to run BIN/CUE from DOSBOX?

Any specific version any better or worse for DOSBOX? I m running your current version, downloaded yesterday.

Side note, music was fine in version .63 or .65, gameplay was VERY choppy so I upgraded. Is there any difference that would cause it to work in one version and not another?

Check out the imgmount command versus ordinary mount.

Thanks, am reading on it right now actually. Figured it was in there somewhere, just didn't recall it form my first pass through the file.

Since my game was already installed from the CD will I need to reinstall from the image?

In general is it prefered to run from an image over a CD?

When I made the .bin file a .cue file also appeared in the folder, which should I load for DOSBOX, the BIN or the CUE? Or does it matter?

THANKS!

Dave B wrote:

Since my game was already installed from the CD will I need to reinstall from the image?

Depending on how you mount your actual CD drive, if you mount your image as the same drive in DOSBox, the game will probably not be able to tell the difference and everything will be fine. So if you mount your CD drive as drive D, just specify drive D when doing your imgmount and everything goes nice and pear-shaped.

In general is it prefered to run from an image over a CD?

In terms of helping with the load times and the hassle of putting a disc in, I'd say images win out already, but there are a few times in which a game would not run from its CD but would run fine off an image. Your mileage may vary, of course.

When I made the .bin file a .cue file also appeared in the folder, which should I load for DOSBOX, the BIN or the CUE? Or does it matter?

You will want to load the CUE file, as that tells DOSBox where all the data and CD tracks are in the image.

Image question now. How do I dismount an image? Or can I just mount a new image on the same drive letter and it is replaced?
Also, if I am using an image, how can I set it up for running a game with more than one CD, like Wing Commander 3 or 4? There was an ALT command for swapping the CD, but how is this done with an image?

Thanks again for all the help!

You REALLY should take 10 minutes to read the README file instead of wasting everyones time.