Use the s3 drivers in the guide and select 256 colors. Or elaborate the "don't work" part of your post.
There is a way to start a windows program like that, but I don't remember 😉

Look at the DOSBox Guides section of this forum

Hazekel wrote:

Should I actually get this working, is there a shortcut I can make in a BAT file or something to load the game inside Windows without having to run it manually?

What I do is load the AUTOEXEC.BAT file from DOSBox. I edited it adding this at the end:

1IF %1==SKIP GOTO END
2IF %1==SETUP GOTO SETUP
3WIN
4GOTO END
5:SETUP
6CD WINDOWS
7SETUP
8:END

It helps automate installing S3 Video and Sound Blaster. You can add a shortcut in Windows 3.11 with "File > New > Program Item".
After "WIN" you can place the path to the program you want to run.
WIN C:\PATH\FILE.EXE

Ok. I was finally able to get the video drivers working and I added the SB16 drivers, but when I start Windows 3.11 I get a continuous beep as the MIDI doesn't seems to be able to stop playing. How can I fix this? It appears to have something to do with the default MIDI drivers, but how do I change it. I already installed SB16 as per the DOSBOX installation instructions and it shows up in my Control Panel, apparently working except for the continuous beeps.

Sorry to be a pain, but it has been ages since I actually used Win3.11

I've haven't heard that happen. Usually it either works or you get no sound.

I extract SB16W3x.zip to C:\WIN311\A
MOUNT C C:\WIN311 -t dir -freesize 400
Then launch AUTOEXEC.BAT SKIP

Ignoring the part that gets shipped over the end of it looks like this.

1IF %1==SKIP GOTO END
2:END
3CD A
4INSTALL

During install it requests to replace a file so I select proceed.
When it's done F10.

Continuous beep is SB16 drivers issue...
First I load drivers from creative.com and - beeps are here...
SB16 drivers from "dosbox guides" topic - no continuous beeps, all works perfectly...
Now I can at last test my "Critical Path" copy. 😀

I just had to change the IRQ to 7 from 5 and it worked.

Now the last question ... sorry to bug everyone ... is how to make a bat file that will start windows 3.11 and immediately run the game I have set up in Windows. Is that possible? It would be nice to just click a single button to start up everything.

Thanks

win %your_win311_program_name%.exe