Works fine here in DosBox 0.71 with the original Dungeon Keeper Gold Edition CD. Using either English or German in the setup.

Strangely enough the English install works for me too, 2 times already under 0.65 debug, did crash once too though... ???

I'll try out the other install languages.

Up till now the dutch manual install works wonderfully only that the sound get scratchy after a while, but this must be my system being too slow. (Using the SB16 configuration)

Anyways will report back.

Erik.

Have you ever played DK before? Prepare to be addicted......

It was on the list of games I had to install for my brother and sister after I got out of tech school back in 2000 and they loved it. Probably the first strategy game they ever really played on a PC too!

My sister still plays DK2 to this day. In fact I gave her a laptop to use for college a couple of months ago and she complained because I put a bunch of other strategy games on there instead of DK2 (If I put DK on there that's all she would play....) heh.

The first time I played was the demo two/three years back. Was fun and at the same time confusing at first. But now I'm already at level three, waterland.

Anyways, the setup crash happens at random for all languages. And if it crashes, the only thing that gets written is the keeper.cfg file.

I'm currently testing it using IOCTL, will test the others.

Also have others to still test out :
- Worms 1 & 2
- Dungeon Keeper Deeper Dungeons
- Quake

Erik.

As Dungeon Keeper also has a win version, I would strongly recommend playing the win32 d3d version. You get a slightly higher resolution, fsaa and bi/trilinear or even anisotropic filtering and it is really playable. There is only one issue with the speed of the game frontend, which is much too fast.

I checked all the CDRom configuration options, it doesn't crash often but when I change disks and make Windows destroy its cache, it crashes more often but also not always.

The things I encountered using the installer are :
- The installer hangs indefinately, see the first post. Only creates a keeper directory with three directories in it.
- The installer seems to install incredibly fast, but afterwards it didn't do anything.
- The installer sometimes crashes, well DOSBox dissappears but I'm using exit, only happened twice and it creates a keeper dir with three dirs and a keeper.cfg file.

80% of the installs work perfectly.

If somebody might have another way of trying to figure out how this installer failes, I'm all ears.

It seems to me that the installer crashes when trying to copy files from the CD-Rom to the HD.

I hope this helps.

Anyways the game runs marvelous and I'm making my minions happy campers.

As Dungeon Keeper also has a win version, I would strongly recommend playing the win32 d3d version.

I know but I'm a stubbern fellow.

Erik.

I prefer the DOS version myself 😉 the D3D version suffers from the same smooth effect that all early 3D games had.

the direct3D mode only works if you use isometric mode, if you use the other mode theres lots of visual artifacts... i reccomend using the patched windows version, because it has superior AI to the DOS version.

that makename error in the debug screen behind the dutch red screen is interresting.

Yes the makename is kind of strange. Anything I can do extra to figure out this strangeness?

Erik.

ErikGG wrote:

Also tried running the setup using the 4DOS command extender.

Curious. Are there situations where that is known to help?

I think the copy protection might try to verify the CD's label (KDDISK1).

Well 4DOS helps if the installer uses a for loop or other batch commands that are not know by the DOSBox Command shell, don't know any game installers that use such commands but it excluded the fact that it was a command issue.

I don't think it is the copy protection as it is the installer and these don't contain any copy protection as far as I know. And also 80% of the installations do work.

Erik.

Erik,

Can you compile dosbox yourself ?

Grtz
P

I did it some months ago but I'll have to setup the compiling suite again.

I will see what I can do.

Erik.

Erik,
Don't bother. I can create a bineary much easier as my compile setup is installed on vogons 😀

You have it installed on Vogons? you lucky fellow, 🙄

Anything I can help with/do?

Erik.

i'll create an exe for you tommorow that will show which filename contained the weird character.

Ok, I'll try the new build tomorrow. Now back to playing the game itself.

mm, DOSFreak is right about the addictive part...

Erik.