First post, by Maktaka
Ever since the release of DOSBox 0.65 Dark Forces has been incessantly crashing on two levels. DOSBox 0.63 continues to work fine, but it is far less efficient so I'd much rather get it working in 0.71. I've tried various sound combinations, reinstalling Dark Forces, and any other tweaks I know of, but I always get crashes at the following locations:
Detention Level:
* Point of arrival for the wedge-shaped lift platform a couple minutes into the level. Walk toward the rack of blaster rifles and the game crashes. Works 9 times out of 10.
* Barring that, the game will crash elsewhere in the level, although I so rarely get further than the platform launch point that I couldn't tell you where.
Fuel Station:
* Right at the level start, walk around the Moldy Crow to the set of fuel barrels. Blow them up, collect the goodies, then walk back around the nose of the Moldy Crow. Half the time, the game will crash as you move back around the nose of the ship.
* Walk along either of the curved staircases in the level (one near level start, one on the other side of the station). Works 9 times out of 10.
On all crashes, I get the exact same one line message in the DOSBox window:
Exit to error: IRET: Illegal descriptor type 0.
System specs:
A8N-SLI standard
Athlon 64 3700+
2GB PC3200 RAM
Geforce 7600 GT
Windows XP