What soundcard did you select? Try core=normal as well.

If this happens after the config, and before the videos play, then i'd say that MC is unable to write its configuration file. Do you have a drive c:\ mounted? I'm not quite sure what you mean with "drive d:\". Is this your CD-ROM drive? Anyway, you _will_ need a mounted c:\-drive. The original MS-DOS could only be booted from c:\, so applictions (and games) will assume there's a c:\-drive available.

You should mount that c:\-drive, and re-install MC. The game itself runs very well in the most recent AEP CVS build (see other threads for details).

Like I said, I did no sound.

It mounted D:\ because the game is on D. I have two HDDs.
Does CVS require compiling? I *sort-of* know what CVS means...

I think I fixed it, magic carpet by default writes the config to C:\CARPET
So I mounted C and the movies played.
And I looked up what those AEP CVS builds were, thanks.

EDIT: I can't get it to work very well, the sound always has regular skips and the keyboard is very laggy. I've tried many different settings of cycles, from 60000 to 120000, as well as dynamic and normal core etc. I've tried using CVS and 0.70 both. Does this mean it's my computer? 🙁

Search this forum for other posts on MC, you'll find detailed instructions for DOSBox configuration, and "performance profiling" (identifying the max number of cycles your machine can handle). I got it to run perfectly, and played through the game without troubles. I have an old P4/2Ghz, and used 50000 cycles - i'd say your cycles count is too high. Your machine and graphics card is quite slow, so you should go even lower than that. Oh, and forget about the SVGA mode with your machine, it won't work fast enough.

I would recommend trying the dos32a extension and using that. Using it will be much easier if you're playing the game from a hard disc drive.

I used it to run Magic Carpet on my old AMD 1600 mhz computer. It ran well with no crashes in lo-rez mode.

This is where you can download the extension (I recommend the first option).
http://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html
Once you have it, extract the files and find the dos32a.exe file from the package. To make Magic Carpet automatically start up using it, rename the dos32a.exe file to "dos4gw.exe" and put it in your Magic Carpet cd folder overwriting the original "dos4gw.exe". This is why it is easier if you aren't actually using your disc. To keep the original dos4gw.exe file in the cd folder if you want to be able to revert back, just rename it to prevent it from getting overwritten.

Doing this on my AMD 1600 allowed me to play the original Magic Carpet with pretty good stability and speed as long as I stayed in lo-rez mode.