Load older Elder Scroll Games

Post » Fri May 04, 2012 5:24 pm

Hi,

I have downloaded Arena and Daggerfall for the Bethesda website but I can't load the games. Every time I try I receive a dialog box saying "This system does not support fullscreen mode. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application". I have tried running the game in Windows 95 compatibility mode and even running it via the dos prompt. However, I still get the same result. My current operating system is Windows 7.

Thanks,


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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 8:04 am

You'll need a DOS emulater to get them to run correctly. http://www.dosbox.com/ is the usual go-to for this sort of thing, and it works really well, though it can be complicated to get Daggerfall set up correctly in it (and even with Arena you'd have to learn DOSBox's interface first). There's also a program somewhere that'll download both Daggerfall and DOSBox, set them up together, and automatically run it through a shortcut, but I don't have the link on me right now.
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 2:13 pm

Ah ok! I will download Dosbox.
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