World of Xeen issues \ VOGONS

World of Xeen issues

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First post, by BoogeyRATT

Posted on 2009-08-08, 08:15

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This will be kind of long, so please bear with me. (Bear with me?)

So, initially I installed WoX without an emulator on XP SP2. The game installed perfectly but wouldn't run. Tried using an emulator (DOSBox 0.73) to run it, no success. Uninstalled and tried to install with the emulator and it wouldn't install (I couldn't even get past the "press any key" screen). Installed again through Windows and it installed successfully again. Ran it through 0.73 and this time I was able to get the game to run, but it would never run for more than a few minutes before freezing.

The game and emu are setup as such:

Installed to d:\games\WORLD

mount e e:\ -t cdrom
mount c d:\games

Then I go to the c:, change to the WORLD folder (so I'm at C:\WORLD) and run XEEN, and it runs.

All sound works well, I don't freeze at any one point, but more often than not it's when I'm leaving a store, the inn, the trainer, etc. But it's frozen when doing equipping, moving around, etc. There's no rhyme or reason.

I was using 0.73 then searched the forums and found people were running WoX fine on 0.65 so I downloaded that version... then when I tried to run the game it said:

"You have a MUSIC CD loaded!
Please insert a World of Xeen CD-ROM!"

So I removed the game from the HDD, installed it through DOSBox 0.65 (which it installed successfully this time) but when I try to run the game, it gives me the same error.

For giggles I made sure all the sound settings were correct. On the 0.73 version I created a CONFIG.INI through the COMMAND.COM on the Z: at the prompt and checked the settings there... *tears his hair out*

So, why the heck is the game freezing up on me on one version, and not running at all on another version? I admit that the one thing I haven't tried is fully disabling the sound because I really want the sound to work. =(

Any and all help is very greatly appreciated.

(PS, I'm a DOSBox newbie so anything too in depth I can't do without a guide. Oh, and I have no front ends installed because I've hated all the ones I've come across.)

Reply 1 of 4, by MiniMax

Posted on 2009-08-08, 16:39

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Long and confusing. Start over.

Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too).

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

Reading the aptly named README file will be a good idea too.

Reply 2 of 4, by BoogeyRATT

Posted on 2009-08-12, 02:37

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So, everything in the walkthrough I figured out on my own and did on my own... with exception to the -ioctl trigger. So when I used that my game ran a bit better, but it still crashed after a while.

So what it boils down to, again... is that I do the following:

mount e e:\ -t cdrom -ioctl
mount c d:\games
c:
cd world
xeen

Then the game will run fine, and eventually crash. Sometimes I get an error... sometimes not. One of the ones I managed to catch was:

"Exit to error: Illegal GRP4 Call 3" (0.73)

I've found that more often than not though, the game just freezes.