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Help with Lemmings!

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First post, by guineapigs

Posted on 2007-11-20, 06:04

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I am having an annoying problem with my Lemmings game. For some reason, the game tends to crash to the default title screen after I've clicked on one of the "level preview" screens to begin a level. This usually occurs around level 4, but sometimes I've been able to get as high as level 9 or 10 before the crash occurs. It's not really a "bad" crash so to speak; it just sends me to the title screen. However, I don't like this because it makes the music track re-start for Lemmings, and I like hearing the music tracks in the right order...yes, I know I'm picky, but it really annoys me when the music re-starts due to the title screen crash. I've tried lots of things already - changing certain entries in the dosbox.conf file, mounting a different drive letter, changing the game resolution...and this stupid crash still occurs. If anyone knows anything that will help me prevent this random crash from occurring and re-starting my music, I'd truly appreciate any help you can give me. If it's important, I've tried running Lemmings with DOSBox versions 0.63 and 0.72, but the problem's the same. Please help as soon as possible...thanks.

Reply 1 of 5, by red_avatar

Posted on 2007-11-20, 07:00

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The level preview screen, do you mean with that the screen with the tiny picture at the top and a list of how many lemmings, how many need to be saved, etc. ?

Just to clarify this IS the original Lemmings right? Not Lemmings 2 Tribes or All New World of Lemmings (also known as Chronicles) or Lemmings 3D?

I personally haven't had a single crash in Lemmings - the preview screen's colourbar is messed up and you need to start the game with less than 7000 cycles to get sound but thats all I can remember about the game that wasn't perfect.

Also, you talk about levels but what difficulty setting is this?

The first thing you should do is probably find an alternative download for the game and see if that gives the same issue. Bad versions are often the cause of errors.

Reply 2 of 5, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2007-11-20, 11:47

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And I thought that issue was related to my demovga pach only...

1+1=10

Reply 3 of 5, by guineapigs

Posted on 2007-11-20, 19:01

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The level preview screen, do you mean with that the screen with the tiny picture at the top and a list of how many lemmings, how […]
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The level preview screen, do you mean with that the screen with the tiny picture at the top and a list of how many lemmings, how many need to be saved, etc. ?

Just to clarify this IS the original Lemmings right? Not Lemmings 2 Tribes or All New World of Lemmings (also known as Chronicles) or Lemmings 3D?

I personally haven't had a single crash in Lemmings - the preview screen's colourbar is messed up and you need to start the game with less than 7000 cycles to get sound but thats all I can remember about the game that wasn't perfect.

Also, you talk about levels but what difficulty setting is this?

The first thing you should do is probably find an alternative download for the game and see if that gives the same issue. Bad versions are often the cause of errors.

Yes, by "level preview screen", I mean exactly what you said. This IS the original Lemmings game, and it's on "Fun" difficulty (or whatever the easiest mode is). I remember playing this game when I was a little kid, and thus I wanted to play it again since it has such a good nostalgic factor for me. I'm not sure where I can find an "alternative download" for the game, as all the ones I've tried so far seem to be identical (i.e. they have the same files included in the game download). If you know of a place where I can download a version that you KNOW works, please let me know...it might very well be that I have a "bad" version of Lemmings. Again, thanks for the help.

Reply 4 of 5, by RenHoek

Posted on 2008-09-21, 13:52

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I was having the same trouble as you, and found that if I run the game in window mode (i.e., don't run DOSBox at full screen) then the problem seemed to stop.

Let me know if that works for you too.

Reply 5 of 5, by wd

Posted on 2008-09-21, 14:01

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Usually a problem with the graphics drivers, update/check acceleration settings
or play with the output= line in dosbox.conf/try different resolutions etc.

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