Updates are here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090503054652/ht … blood.lith.com/

Then try these settings

DoomSlinger wrote on 2022-05-28, 00:21:

I also want to point out I don't get the same splash screens in dos that I get in windows. It's like it's playing a low resource version of the splash screen. Any help is appreciated.

Are you sure you're running the same exe file?

Azarien wrote on 2022-05-28, 09:00:

DoomSlinger wrote on 2022-05-28, 00:21:

I also want to point out I don't get the same splash screens in dos that I get in windows. It's like it's playing a low resource version of the splash screen. Any help is appreciated.

Are you sure you're running the same exe file?

Yes, it is the same exe file. It's the same install, I just have that pc set up to dual boot between ms dos and win98.

held wrote on 2022-05-28, 06:48:

Updates are here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090503054652/ht … blood.lith.com/

Then try these settings

Did not work

EDIT: I've recorded 2 videos of me launching the game, one in dos and one in win98 so you can see the difference. It's launched using the same file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_2YUHILaFhpM … iew?usp=sharing

D:\3DREALMS
E:\3DREALMS

If the random warez copy I found is any indicator, blood.ini references absolute paths, so when you fixed it did you change to new absolute paths, or tried using relative paths (might not work)? Tried reinstalling in DOS?

Also as for the "low resource" thing seems like it's only running in a window? Right click the file > properties > screen > change to full-screen.

Edit: it doesn't work without the 1.11 patch in DOSBox either. So just patch the game?

ZellSF wrote on 2022-05-29, 14:47:

D:\3DREALMS E:\3DREALMS […]
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D:\3DREALMS
E:\3DREALMS

If the random warez copy I found is any indicator, blood.ini references absolute paths, so when you fixed it did you change to new absolute paths, or tried using relative paths (might not work)? Tried reinstalling in DOS?

Also as for the "low resource" thing seems like it's only running in a window? Right click the file > properties > screen > change to full-screen.

Edit: it doesn't work without the 1.11 patch in DOSBox either. So just patch the game?

Ok, patching the game worked (I didn't have time to test that last night)

Also, the reason it shows 2 different drives is because there is a 50gb partition that doesn't show up in dos that is the ACTUAL D drive. so the D drive in dos gets moved to E

IIRC DOS cutscenes were fixed in the 1.10 patch.

DoomSlinger wrote on 2022-05-29, 17:19:

Also, the reason it shows 2 different drives is because there is a 50gb partition that doesn't show up in dos

This is one of the reasons why Win9x's DOS is usually preferred to MS-DOS 6.x or earlier.

Azarien wrote on 2022-06-06, 17:16:

DoomSlinger wrote on 2022-05-29, 17:19:

Also, the reason it shows 2 different drives is because there is a 50gb partition that doesn't show up in dos

This is one of the reasons why Win9x's DOS is usually preferred to MS-DOS 6.x or earlier.

Yeah, but don't forget about Windows 95 prior OSR2 which like older standalone MS-DOS versions, it doesn't support FAT32 partitions.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2022-06-06, 20:52:

Yeah, but don't forget about Windows 95 prior OSR2 which like older standalone MS-DOS versions, it doesn't support FAT32 partitions.

Yes, but to be honest I never used Windows 95 version early enough not to have FAT32 support, which is why I did not think of it.
Back in the day I jumped from DOS 6.22 + WfW 3.11 straight into 95 OSR2.

(the longer story is 3.11 -> 95OSR2 -> 98SE -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 10 😜)