I had windows xp for a while and dosbox worked fine on it. Now that I've upgraded to windows 7 the games won't run. When I have the right folder mounted on dosbox and cd to a game folder then I try running a .exe and it says illegal action.
I've already read the manual/readme before. That's how I got dosbox to work on windows xp, but it won't run the games on windows 7.
Works fine here.
You ARE doing it differently or it would work on Windows 7. Dosbox works the same way as on XP, if you mount the same folders it will work.
Make a screenshot of your problem
But it may not work properly if you are installing DOSbox into the Program Files (x86) folder due to the UAC wanting to keep you out of there.
You normally have to disable UAC and take full control/ownsership of this folder as well as being an admin account on the local machine.
I usually install DOSbox into a different folder along with my games that I want to run, usually something like C:\DOSGAMES\DOSBOX\ works for me.
Of course I prefer to take full control over my box and I mess up well that's on me 😉
No matter where you go, there you are...
Dosbox doesn't have a problem with the UAC
BigBodZod But it may not work properly if you are installing DOSbox into the Program Files (x86) folder due to the UAC wanting […]
BigBodZod But it may not work properly if you are installing DOSbox into the Program Files (x86) folder due to the UAC wanting to keep you out of there.
You normally have to disable UAC and take full control/ownsership of this folder as well as being an admin account on the local machine.
I usually install DOSbox into a different folder along with my games that I want to run, usually something like C:\DOSGAMES\DOSBOX\ works for me.
Of course I prefer to take full control over my box and I mess up well that's on me
Well I have an admin account and I placed the folder in C: so it's C:\DOSgames\ and here's the screenshots.
Are you sure the .exe file is in that folder? What does it show when you type dir?
Yes I'm sure and here's proof.
Try getting rid of the folder's long file name.
Stupid question but the folder you're mounting to is spelled correctly and is located at c:\DOSgames and not C:\Programs\DOSgames or something like that.
Alright I deleted the C:\DOSgames folder and created the directory again with the games recopied into it and it worked.
