You may have to use advanced CD-related parameters for the 'mount' command. Check the DOSBox readme for more info.

EDIT: Welcome to VOGONS, by the way 😀

Maybe she (assuming she is female) just forgot to mount a cd-drive.

mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -label darkforces

This is just an example.

I did a lot of work on that game recently. The installer now works.
what you have to do:
your cdrom:
mount d "your cdrom" -t cdrom
mount c c:\
and then start the game

Maybe she (assuming she is female) just forgot to mount a cd-drive.

mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -label darkforces

This is just an example.

Thanks 😁 Yes, I am female

Urgh 🙁 Now it's running to slow... Is there a way to speed it up?

Yes, make sure your core=dynamic in dosbox.conf, and then turn the cycles up as far as you can before things start slowing down or getting choppy again (ctrl+f11/ctrl+f12).

Also, you should know that the game runs kind of slow and unstable for me on my Athlon XP 3200+, so don't expect too much. The author of DOS32A is working on a new version that works better with Dark Forces though, so maybe in a while things will be better.

HunterZ wrote:

Yes, make sure your core=dynamic in dosbox.conf, and then turn the cycles up as far as you can before things start slowing down or getting choppy again (ctrl+f11/ctrl+f12).

Also, you should know that the game runs kind of slow and unstable for me on my Athlon XP 3200+, so don't expect too much. The author of DOS32A is working on a new version that works better with Dark Forces though, so maybe in a while things will be better.

What's DOS32A????? When ever I overclock it, it starts to get close to the right speed, then just gets slower again 😠 I use a pentium 4, not an athlon I changed it to core=dynamic and now it's worse!

Here's some info on DOS32A: [ANN]: DOS/32A v9.1.2 has been released

It's a replacement for DOS4GW, which the game uses to access extended memory in DOS.

How fast is your Pentium 4? The point right before it starts to get slower again is the fastest you'll be able to get it to go on your computer. You could try increasing the frameskip to 1 or 2 and see if it helps - I can't stand it but maybe you can. Different output= modes may also help a little.

HunterZ wrote:

Here's some info on DOS32A: [ANN]: DOS/32A v9.1.2 has been released

It's a replacement for DOS4GW, which the game uses to access extended memory in DOS.

How fast is your Pentium 4? The point right before it starts to get slower again is the fastest you'll be able to get it to go on your computer. You could try increasing the frameskip to 1 or 2 and see if it helps - I can't stand it but maybe you can. Different output= modes may also help a little.

3.5 ghz DOS/32A warning (9003): Real mode interrupt vector has beenmodified: INT 24h This error appeared after I exited the game 😖

Yeah the author says he's going to fix that for the next version of DOS32A...

Doesn't Dark Forces work under XP?

*shrug* I don't care to fiddle with VDMSound...

Dark Forces is slower with dynamic than normal core. I'm not sure why this happens, it's been said it uses self modifying code but I have a hard time beliving that with a game complex as DF...

DosFreak wrote:

Doesn't Dark Forces work under XP?

Yeah but VDMsound just stutters and crashes.

Don't know if I am helping or not, but since the game runs fine on Windows 95, have you tried using the Windows 95 compatibility mode? Don't know if that will work but it is worth a try.

> it's been said it uses self modifying code but I have a hard time beliving
> that with a game complex as DF...

In the context of the dynamic core, think of SMC as code
that writes on the same page.
Don't know if this is a problem with this specific game.

Unfortunately compatability modes probably won't help, as it's a DOS game.

HunterZ wrote:

Unfortunately compatability modes probably won't help, as it's a DOS game.

Compatability mode helped me with Wolfenstein 3D, but I can't stand to play Dark Forces without sound, this is why I chose dos box.

AFAIK DF works with DOSBox CVS + dos32a beta and SoundBlaster emulation (GUS emu randomly crashes the game, no idea why). DOS4GW seems to work just as well.