So much trouble

Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:23 pm

Daggerfall is so much trouble. I spent two hours installing it, just so it could lag. My computer can't handle Daggerfall? Then, when I try and play it again, it says the original game could not be found. :banghead: To play it, I have to type in those command prompts every time. Could anyone explain my problems? I really want to play this game, but I don't know how to fix it.

However, seeing a younger Emperor Uriel Septim was interesting. How is he bald in Daggerfall, but his older self in Oblivion has hair?
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Liv Brown
 
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:41 pm

Because they thought the hair looked cooler? It's a retcon, pure and simple; no real explanation behind it.

Now:
Go into your DOSBox folder (probably C:\Program Files\DOSbox) and find your dosbox.conf file. Right-click, select "open with," select "choose program" if it asks, and then open it in notepad. A readable document with a bunch of variables and numbers should come up.

Scroll all the way down to the bottom and find the [AUTOEXEC] section. After the comment line (indicated by the #), type verbatim the command prompts you'd normally type to run the game. Then save. This will run those commands automatically for you upon running DOSBox.

Then search for the [CPU] section. Change the line "core=auto" (or whatever it's set to) to "core=dynamic". Save. Try running DOSBox. It should run Daggerfall automatically. Now, while you're playing, raise or lower your CPU cycles (ctrl+F12 and ctrl+F11, respectively) to see what number of CPU cycle gives you the best performance. When you find that sweet spot, Alt+Enter to go to fullscreen, where your CPU cycles should be displayed at the top; take note of that happy number, open up your dosbox.conf in notepad again, go back to [CPU], and replace whatever number the "cycles=" is set to with your number. Save. Run again.

If all else fais, you could reduce your level of detail, I believe, in the game's options menu.
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Rudi Carter
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:28 am

Because they thought the hair looked cooler? It's a retcon, pure and simple; no real explanation behind it.

Now:
Go into your DOSBox folder (probably C:\Program Files\DOSbox) and find your dosbox.conf file. Right-click, select "open with," select "choose program" if it asks, and then open it in notepad. A readable document with a bunch of variables and numbers should come up.

Scroll all the way down to the bottom and find the [AUTOEXEC] section. After the comment line (indicated by the #), type verbatim the command prompts you'd normally type to run the game. Then save. This will run those commands automatically for you upon running DOSBox.

Then search for the [CPU] section. Change the line "core=auto" (or whatever it's set to) to "core=dynamic". Save. Try running DOSBox. It should run Daggerfall automatically. Now, while you're playing, raise or lower your CPU cycles (ctrl+F12 and ctrl+F11, respectively) to see what number of CPU cycle gives you the best performance. When you find that sweet spot, Alt+Enter to go to fullscreen, where your CPU cycles should be displayed at the top; take note of that happy number, open up your dosbox.conf in notepad again, go back to [CPU], and replace whatever number the "cycles=" is set to with your number. Save. Run again.

If all else fais, you could reduce your level of detail, I believe, in the game's options menu.


Now Daggerfall won't run at all, and I didn't even do anything to the folder.
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