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First post, by Vash the Stampede

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Well DosBox installs the game then gets to the title screen then freezes and ejects the disc before closing (tried with dynamic and full core). On XP I use VDMsound but the game won't start it says something like DPMI_PhysicaltoLinearfailed () or similiar. The Deathmask buildxp guide doesn't seem to work properly for me, and I can't get Gildos to work either. (I'm using Blood and the Plasma Pack). Step 6 I think of the build xp guide I don't think I did it correctly? Where you have to use the command line interface or something. If you don't know what site I mean here: http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/

Anyone know how I can get this running? I'm using Windows XP with SP2, running a AMD 3500+.

Reply 1 of 8, by DosFreak

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Don't use Blood in DosBox. The best you can hope for on that machine is perhaps 20fps in 640x480 with terrible sound quality.....and that's the best. Lowering resolution and playing around with sound quality may help....but if your using Windows XP then you should be able to run Blood on the host.

So first of all....Configure Blood's setup utility to run the game in 320x200. Setup the sound, now run the game with VDMSound. If it runs then your halfway there.

Now to fix the "DPMI_PhysicaltoLinear" error message (You'll need to be using a VESA mode to get this error message), simple run NOLFB before executing blood.

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Reply 2 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

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Does Blood use DOS4GW as DOS-Extender? If so, has anybody try replacing it with DOS32A 7.x?

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Reply 4 of 8, by Cody Richeson

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DosFreak wrote:

Don't use Blood in DosBox. The best you can hope for on that machine is perhaps 20fps in 640x480 with terrible sound quality.....and that's the best. Lowering resolution and playing around with sound quality may help....but if your using Windows XP then you should be able to run Blood on the host.

So first of all....Configure Blood's setup utility to run the game in 320x200. Setup the sound, now run the game with VDMSound. If it runs then your halfway there.

Now to fix the "DPMI_PhysicaltoLinear" error message (You'll need to be using a VESA mode to get this error message), simple run NOLFB before executing blood.

What do you mean by "run Blood on the host?" I have Blood too (shareware) and it doesn't run in DosBox either.

Reply 6 of 8, by Cody Richeson

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HunterZ wrote:

He means running it in a command prompt window in Windows instead of in DOSBox I think.

I tried that and it didn't work. Any other suggestions? Because I really want to play Blood and other Build-era games!

Reply 7 of 8, by Mike

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There should be a Blood port around the net if Glidos does not work, anyway, I would suggest that you dual boot with Win 95, or buy a Pentium 200 on Ebay, unfortunately, there is not much to do at this time.

Reply 8 of 8, by AvalonH

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I tried this in XP (no dosbox), run nolfb, unirfrsh and vdmsound. Patched the game to v1.1 to get 1600x1200 vesa @85hz (using modified
videoprt.sys). Runs very fast with full sound.

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