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Daggerfall hangs in with DosBox

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First post, by GhostAgent

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I'm having problems with getting Daggerfall and DosBox to work together.
Everytime I start Daggerfall, I get stuck with a black screen. At that point I am unable to do anything. The following is my system setup along with the steps I have taken so far:

I am using a Vista (32-bit) machine with 2GB RAM and an AMD Turion 64 1.5 GHz Processor, also I'm using DosBox ver 0.72.

I have downloaded the unofficial Daggerfall XP (dagnt5x) installation file at
http://files.filefront.com/dagnt5x/;900719;;/fileinfo.html, and used it to install Daggerfall.

I then started the no-cd custimization method by copying all of the files of the Arena2 folder from the CD into the Arena2 folder on the hard drive.

After this, I installed the 2.13 patch for daggerfall and edited the Z.cfg file.

I have the game located in the C:\games\daggerfall directory; So in the Z.cfg file I made sure the path and cdpath lines both
read "c:\daggerfall\arena2\" so that when I mount "C:\Games" as drive "C:\" I won't have a path issue.

After this, I created a batch file named "dagfall.bat" that ran the command
"fall.exe z.cfg"

I have read all the posts and tried changing different settings (I did look at the README file for DosBox) and nothing has worked so far.

I have read that many people have been able to get this game working just fine by doing all that I have listed above. However, that hasn't been the case for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Reply 1 of 2, by MiniMax

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Any reason why you can not install it from inside DOSBox (as per my 60 seconds guide)? I am always suspicious when people install in Windows and try to run in DOSBox (though your mount + cfg modifications do look okay).

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Reply 2 of 2, by GhostAgent

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MiniMax,

Thanks for your reply. I was able to mount my "C:\Games" folder and create an image/mount for my CD rom and successfully installed Daggerfall within DosBox (the way it should be).

After the install, I copied the Arena2 folder over to the hard drive and then configured the z.cfg file again (the same as above).

I am able to run Daggerfall now. I also found out what was causing my problem the first time: By attempting to install it with the CD I was reminded that DOS didn't allow names over 8 characters (duh). The default location for the game is "DAGGER" (a safe six characters). The first time around I renamed the original folder to "Daggerfall" (10 characters-not DOS compatible).

After installing the game by following your suggestion, I went back and renamed my first folder ("Daggerfall") to "Dag2" (just to test). I then altered the "z.cfg" file to have the path and cdpath lines to read "c:\dag2\arena2\", and it started just fine (imagine that).

So, a simple error on my part was causing the whole problem.

Anyway, again thanks for your help. I do appreciate it.

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