Daggerfall is now free. - by TTK12G3
june gloom on 10/7/2009 at 20:30
If you have a Geforce 8800, you are screwed and will have to play in DOSbox due to the fact that the Nvidia BIOS coders removed sections of BIOS code, which makes it incompatible with DOS or the NTVDM environment.
I had DOS games work just fine in the NTVDM environment until I installed the 8800 and now they will only work with DOSbox.
Dresden on 10/7/2009 at 20:45
There's also a bug where quest items/monsters become invisible due to some section of memory being unavailable in modern machines or somesuch thing. Playing under DOSBox fixes that. Or maybe that's what you're talking about Dethtoll.
Nameless Voice on 10/7/2009 at 20:57
Quote Posted by dethtoll
If you have a Geforce 8800, you are
screwed and will have to play in DOSbox due to the fact that the Nvidia BIOS coders removed sections of BIOS code, which makes it incompatible with DOS or the NTVDM environment.
I had DOS games work just fine in the NTVDM environment until I installed the 8800 and now they will only work with DOSbox.
I didn't know that.
I admit that, while I have played Daggerfall under XP, it was before I got my 8800GT.
WingedKagouti on 10/7/2009 at 22:21
Quote Posted by raevol
Anyone want to throw this up as a torrent? I'm getting about 2 KB/second from bethesda.
Try looking at the major download sites. I grabbed it from (
http://www.gamershell.com/download_48334.shtml) gamershell in about 2 minutes total.
june gloom on 11/7/2009 at 01:18
Quote Posted by Dresden
There's also a bug where quest items/monsters become invisible due to some section of memory being unavailable in modern machines or somesuch thing. Playing under DOSBox fixes that. Or maybe that's what you're talking about Dethtoll.
No. This is a problem with all DOS games- NTVDM is essentially a "Virtual DOS Machine", but the 8800's BIOS renders it useless. You will always and forever get "NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction" followed by a string of hex unique to every game.
EvaUnit02 on 11/7/2009 at 01:31
VDMsound was total shit even back when it was relevant, I spit on its grave. DOSbox empties its bowels upon it from great heights; considering its far greater range of compatibility, also its emulation of the bad arse 16-bit ISA sound cards like SoundBlaster AWE32 and Gravis Ultrasound.
Nameless Voice on 11/7/2009 at 01:37
DOSBox incorporates VDMSound.
EvaUnit02 on 11/7/2009 at 01:49
*Googles*
You're right, but the point still stands.
The project was discontinued in mid-2002, when additional improvements in emulation were no longer possible due to limitations in the Windows kernel.
VDMSound sucked then and it persists in sucking.
june gloom on 11/7/2009 at 02:19
psst: NTVDM and VDMsound are not the same thing.
EvaUnit02 on 11/7/2009 at 02:26
Who said they were? I was just ranting off a tangent. Come on Dethtoll, you weren't born yesterday.
