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First post, by gavinwatson

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Hi Guys,

I apologise if this has already been answered but I couldn't find a thread when searching.

I'm struggling to get custom configuration files to work.

I've created a duplicate config file with a different name and made the changes I need to mount the correct drives and run the game automatically. This custom config is in the same directory as the main dos box one.

Then I created shortcut on the deskop

Target: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe" -conf systemshock1.conf
Start in: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.74"

Unfortunately it refuses to use the new config, it just uses the stardard one.

I've also tried -userconf and -userconf -conf and every other combination.

I've read through all the internet guides on this and the dosbox manual and I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

Really keen to get this working as I want to set up multiple short cuts and config files for different games.

Hope you guys can help, 🙁

Gavin.

Reply 1 of 2, by zirkoni

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You need the full path after the -conf parameter:
"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.exe" -conf "C:\path\to\file\systemshock1.conf"

unless you have dosbox.exe and the conf file in the same directory.

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