Drakan Dosbox help
Drakan Dosbox help
Im trying to run Drakan in Dosbox can somone please tell me what the execution command is for drakan?
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Dosbox is only for really old games that run under the DOS operating system, not windows. Dosbox is an dos emulator for windows NT,2000 & XP machines. You don't need it for windows 9x operating systems as they have DOS built in.
You haven't posted your system specs so I don't know what operating system you are using but if it's XP, there are a few things you can try. First of all, check your drivers are up to date and latest windows service pack is installed. Then try turing off the 3D sound options in the game engine menu. If that does not work, try each option in turn to see if that helps.
Finally, failing that, run the game in developer mode as this bypasses the intro cutcene that causes crashing on some PC's.
If you are running Vista though, you are very lucky if you manage to get it working at all even then it will probably have other problems. Vista is useless for running old games.
Please search the forum and check www.arokhslair.net/tech.html for help on the game.
You haven't posted your system specs so I don't know what operating system you are using but if it's XP, there are a few things you can try. First of all, check your drivers are up to date and latest windows service pack is installed. Then try turing off the 3D sound options in the game engine menu. If that does not work, try each option in turn to see if that helps.
Finally, failing that, run the game in developer mode as this bypasses the intro cutcene that causes crashing on some PC's.
If you are running Vista though, you are very lucky if you manage to get it working at all even then it will probably have other problems. Vista is useless for running old games.
Please search the forum and check www.arokhslair.net/tech.html for help on the game.
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Unfortunatley, you can't watch the intro as this is what causes the crash. There is no fix for this yet and probably won't be either. As for your messed up graphics, this is pretty common on most onboard graphics cards but you didn't mention what video card you have. I assume its Nvidia as Drakan soes not seem to like them and has the problems you are having.
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I've got XP and the game works fine cut scenes and all. nvidia 7600 video. I also have the beginning of the level (player made levels also) in too hard difficulty setting. I've saved them in a seperate folder and copy one to the saves folder of the game to play it. Start the game click load game and pick it, too simple. Arokh's Twin if you like I can send them to you to post maybe? Starting in developer mode seams to only be in the hard setting or less. Drakan is a great game. laters all DC