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Ravenloft - Strahd's Possession DOSBOX issue

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First post, by Hyperbog

Posted on 2010-12-12, 10:47

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I'm using DosBox 0.74 and the ProGammaX frontend. No matter what I try, when I execute the exe file "R" or "RLOFT" the dosbox window comes up with the DOS4GW info, and then immediately closes. I've searched all over the internet, and read posts here and I can't seem to fix my problem. Everything is mounted properly. I tried mounting the image file, and running the game straight from the CD. Other games like Menzoberranzen and Stone Prophet work, but I can't seem to get this game working, even with the solutions I've found for the other 2 games. I do notice that when the game goes to boot up, at the top of the DosBox window it seems to be loading the Code file from the game folder of which there are 2 - Code.1 & Code.2. I even tried copying those files from the CD itself as well as trying no audio in the sound setup. There's gotta be some simple issue here stopping the game from loading. Oh and it's not the frontend, I use this for all of my games.

Reply 1 of 6, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-12-12, 10:53

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It would still help if you tried without a frontend, especially to see whether dos4gw gives an error. We are dosbox specialists and not frontend ones sowe kind of can't troubleshoot if there is something in between user and dosbox... 😉
Please post your mountings when you installed the game and what mountings you are using when you want to play the game. Preferably without the frontend.

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Reply 2 of 6, by Hyperbog

Posted on 2010-12-12, 11:22

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ok, instead of closing right away I can see the error now. It us unable to open a resource file. There are 8 RES in the folder I installed the game in, and 12 RES on the CD. I tried to copy those 4 from the cd to the folder but that doesn't seem to work.

G is mounted to the game dir on the hard drive
D is mounted to cd-drive M (I did Mount d M:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 ioctl)

Reply 3 of 6, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-12-12, 11:43

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G is mounted to the game dir on the hard drive

there are a couple of problems there.
1. Don't use g for the "hard drive"
2. If you mount the game dir then it is 100% different from when you installed the game
3. Don't mount the game dir, some games, especially cd rom games like to have their data in a specific folder on c:

So if the game dir is in reality at c:/my games/dosgames/raveloft then do
Mount c c:/my games/dosgames
Mount d M:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 ioctl

And reinstall the game to make sure no more problems arise.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Hyperbog

Posted on 2010-12-12, 12:40

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Awesome, what you said worked. I uninstalled the game, mounted c to the directory before the actual game folder, mounted d:\ to M:\, and reinstalled. I also configured the frontend accordingly, and now everything is as it should be. Thanks.