First post, by synikk
the short:
where is it? its not in the install directory. only that 'options' executable which opens it is there. in older dosboxes it was in the directory u install it in so, in .74, where is it?~!? i screwed mine up and even upon reinstalling, it does not reset its settings -_- ...
the story:
so ive been playing a ton of dos games recently.. and ive had my .74 tweaked to run a sleu of games relatively well. well, that is, until i tried to run STTNG : A Final Unity.
for whatever reason it continued to give me a soundinit error on bootup. i found an older dosbox someone rigged to run the game and so I figured id check out the conf settings on that one and try to adjust my own. tinkered with that for like 2 hours to no avail and finally just gave in and INSTALLED the older dosbox. :/
yeah, this worked. it ran the game. but i was unsatisfied with its filtering settings limitations on the older version (i think it was like .68 or something) and went back to tweak my .74. no matter how much i changed everything to try and match the .68 settings, it still gave the damned soundinit error after the initial game's splash screen. infuriated i simply copied the entire contents of the .68 CONF file and pasted it over my .74 'options' conf file (wherever it is).
this screwed up my .74. i decided that was a bad idea so i uninstalled EVERYTHING. the .68 and the .74. then to not take a chance that something residiual remained? i rebooted... then proceeded to reinstall .74...
when i tried to run it for the first time? IT KEPT ALL THE OLD SETTINGS!! ughhh. how is this even possible? i looked in the new directory of the new dosbox .74 and the 'options' (which links to its conf file) were still the same i copied from the .68!!! even still with the batch to go to the ST:AFU game!! gdsjkagoiasd
i just cannot believe this... and i would like simply to have my old .74 conf file back?? but where the heck is it? how is it possible it doesnt just REPLACE it upon a reinstall of dosbox? i dont see it anywhere in the directory... this is just such crap. im sorry to rage but, its really maddening after having uninstalled EVERYTHING and yet still it keeps its old conf options? where/how can i get back the default .74 conf? and where is it!! lol.
im running win7, x64... i guess it probably hides the conf file combined somewhere in some secret folder or some bs. bleh. any ideas? thanks heh what a nightmare... this is almost worse than it was back in the day to get actual dos games to work. lol. aw well.. adds to the nostalgia i guess?