Daggerfall is now free.

june gloom on 11/7/2009 at 02:29

I mention NTVDM and your very next post is a rant about VDMsound. What do you think that looks like?

Besides, this is you we're talking about.

raevol on 11/7/2009 at 02:45

Quote Posted by WingedKagouti

Try looking at the major download sites. I grabbed it from (http://www.gamershell.com/download_48334.shtml) gamershell in about 2 minutes total.

Thanks.

belboz on 11/7/2009 at 03:03

If you dont speak to someone in the main castle within the first two days of game play then the game is unwinable, unless they've fixed that bug.

Shadowcat on 11/7/2009 at 05:55

Quote Posted by EvaUnit02

VDMsound was total shit even back when it was relevant, I spit on its grave. DOSbox empties its bowels upon it from great heights

They're utterly different. With VDMSound you're not emulating the complete hardware of a DOS-era PC, which makes it massively more efficient. So from a performance perspective, VDMSound empties its bowels upon DOSBox from a great height. Except it doesn't, because they're not comparable applications.

Minion21g on 11/7/2009 at 14:42

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.

Have you tried (http://advsys.net/ken/build.htm) NOLFB?

As Ken Silverman puts it, "When DOS programs initialize the VESA 2.0 linear framebuffer mode, one of the steps (after the screen mode is set) is using DPMI function call (ax=0x800) to map video memory into a linear space. Under WinNT/2K/XP, this call always fails. I don't know why. My programs exit to DOS with this error message: "DPMI_mapPhysicalToLinear() failed!". Unfortunately, the screen is usually black or jumbled at this point, so to most people, it looks like a crash. (If you don't believe me, type "duke3d > error.txt" at the command prompt and look at error.txt after running it :)"

It might only partially apply to your problem but it might be worth trying.

june gloom on 11/7/2009 at 18:33

NOLFB does not work. I have Redneck Rampage all set up with NOLFB and everything else and it does not work with the 8800. NTVDM has been permanently effed in the ay by this card; a shame, considering it plays modern games beautifully.

dvrabel on 12/7/2009 at 09:49

I'm finding attacking really flaky. Moving the mouse doesn't result in a weapon swing a lot of the time and when it works it's really slow and jerky. Any way to improve on this?

DaBeast on 12/7/2009 at 10:50

Quote Posted by Koki

But is it bug-free?

and does it work on xp

A Bethesda game without bugs? Is that possible?