Don't you need the CD anyway for the CD Audio? If your playing Warcraft 2 without the CD Audio then you should be drug out back and shot. Seriously.

I don't know what kind of NOCD patch it is but it's possible the game still looks for the CD when you load it (like the CD Audio mabye?). DosBox by default does not emulate a CD drive whereas NTVDM loads the drivers to access your CD drive by default.

You could try mounting an empty directory as a cdrom and see if that allows the game to work.

DosFreak wrote:

Don't you need the CD anyway for the CD Audio? If your playing Warcraft 2 without the CD Audio then you should be drug out back and shot. Seriously.

Lol. I thought the game used MIDI music anyway?

I don't know what kind of NOCD patch it is but it's possible the game still looks for the CD when you load it (like the CD Audio mabye?). DosBox by default does not emulate a CD drive whereas NTVDM loads the drivers to access your CD drive by default.

You could try mounting an empty directory as a cdrom and see if that allows the game to work.

I'll let you know if that works - gotta go to bed now! 😉

Edit the file WAR2.INI and change the line:

1cdpath=

To represent the files location on your harddisk.

If this value is currently:

1cdpath=.

And you are mounting the game directory as drive C (I.E. the executable is: c:\war2.exe), then change it to:

1cdpath=..

(Add another dot/period)

DosFreak wrote:

Don't you need the CD anyway for the CD Audio? If your playing Warcraft 2 without the CD Audio then you should be drug out back and shot. Seriously.

* helps DosFreak dragging marzsyndrome out the back * 😁 .

Quality games like Warcraft 2 should always be played with their full features.

marzsyndrome wrote:

Lol. I thought the game used MIDI music anyway?

If we were talking about Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, then I would understand, as I've heard rumors about a CD version of it with audio tracks, and upon further investigation, found out it's not true...

When you played the game (Warcraft 2), didn't you notice in the ingame SOUND menu a certain option like "CD audio" or similar (IIRC)? I'm at work right now, but I'll check this later today...

Maybe you should try using a program like UltraISO to make a BIN/CUE out of your original CD? With that same program, you'll be able to load the image and play the audio tracks of the game. It's a whole new experience comparing to the MIDI music 😀 !

Then you should load the *.CUE file in DOSBox (via imgmount command) and experience the game in it's full glory!

DosFreak wrote:

Don't you need the CD anyway for the CD Audio? If your playing Warcraft 2 without the CD Audio then you should be drug out back and shot. Seriously.

you could MP3 the music and use a 3rd party audio player... this would save a ton on hard disk space 🤣.

there is no cd audio in the battle .net edition >.> but how do we know what version he is using?

Well, the Battle.net Edition is Windows only, and I mention about running W2 through DOSBox, so it's pretty much the original DOS version I'm talking about, heh.

And Og's tip worked beautifully btw. 😁 Never knew a single extra dot could make so much difference! I wonder why it works like that? I don't seem to have to do this when applying similar setttings/configs in other games.

With the version I downloaded there was a file called war2CD. Which acts as the cd check, run this instead of running war2 and it should work.

We do not support illegal downloaded copies.

Also, and this is important, please do not necropost, meaning posting in years old topics is frowned at.

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