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First post, by Scottland89

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Hi All,

I recently, after many years of neglect, decided to try playing all the main wing commander games, however when I play Wing Commander 2, the game freezes when I destroy the last fighter on Mission 2. I know the fix is apparently using loadfix, but I'm gonna admit, my dosbox knowledge is pretty low and don't know how\where to type in loadfix (or specifically "loadfix -32 wc2").

If it helps you to help me, I use dosbox 0.74 via Launchbox, which I use to run all my dosbox games\apps so it's as easy as double clicking on an icon to load the game. After looking it up and making some educated guessing, I've tried putting it as an application Command-Line Parameter and also put it autoexe section of the dosbox.conf, neither of which works.

I'm sorry if this is a bit of a stupid question, which I'm sure for most here it will be as nearly everywhere just says "use loadfix" to resolve this (and others issue) but nothing on where to type the loadfix line itself.

All help would be much appreciated
Thanks for your time.

Reply 1 of 1, by skitters

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If you right-click the game picture in Launchbox, and choose Edit, you should see something like this screenshot
http://www.launchbox-app.com/wp-content/uploa … creenshot-5.png

The "Application Path" in Launchbox seems to be doing the same as the Target line in a Desktop shortcut, so I'm assuming what works in a desktop shortcut would work in Launchbox's Application Path.

Look at what it says in the Application Path for your WC2 game.
Does it point directly to wc2.exe or does it only point to dosbox.exe?

If the Application Path points directly to wc2.exe, then try substituting "loadfix -32 wc2.exe" for the wc2.exe in the path.
(I don't know if you need the quote marks or not in Launchbox)

If the Application Path points to dosbox.exe, then you'd need to add the loadfix line elsewhere.