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First post, by OG-loc

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Hello all,

Before i start im glad i founded this site 🤣
and i hope u guys can help me out a bit with this game.

i cant manage to start this game and i am getting a bit irritated because i know this is such a good game...

i am running:
vista x32 premium edition

1. first of all i installed the game with DOSbox 0.72
set this settings right so i could install the game:
-mount MOUNT g G:\ -t cdrom
-mount c C:\

2. all installed fine etc.
3. after the instal dosbox gives me a nice attention that i could play the game if i type T7G.bat.

4. i did this and all goes fine.
i inserted disk one and went further with my cool game.

5. the game is so slow with frames i thought i was looking at a dia not a game.
i founded out that i could fix this slow problem when editing the
Cpu cycles with ctrl+12

but then something strange happens,
i click on a door to my right when facing the stairs.

i get a eror that the game says im missing a VDX file.
the game closes down and that's it....
how can i play my game propely with no vdx problem??

I also founded the ''XP patch for the 7 guest''
i installed this file:
-the one with T7Gsetup with 2.1 patch

i tickt the box with (the 7guest 1.0 is already installed)

I also installed the file called T7GWIN
i clicked on the file v32tng.exe
i changed the compactibility to:
-windows 95
-visual themes out
-run this game as administrator

and now i thought my VDX problem was over but with both applications
dosbox&v32tng.exe the game wont run at all ore not as it should.

i hope you guys can help me out,
Greets,

OG-loc

Reply 1 of 9, by MiniMax

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OG-loc wrote:
1. first of all i installed the game with DOSbox 0.72 set this settings right so i could install the game: -mount MOUNT g G:\ -t […]
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1. first of all i installed the game with DOSbox 0.72
set this settings right so i could install the game:
-mount MOUNT g G:\ -t cdrom
-mount c C:\

As a general rule, you should always mount your CD as drive D:

MOUNT D "G:" -t cdrom

And you should not mount C:\ as drive C. Instead create a folder called DOSBox-stuff somewhere, preferably in your Documents folder and mount that:

MOUNT C "C:\Users\<your-user-name>\Documents\DOSBox-Stuff"

Then re-install your game.

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Reply 2 of 9, by MiniMax

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Btw. that 7th Guest game seems to be a tad difficult to get running. Or maybe there are just too many different versions out there. Do a search in these forums for "7th" and you will see what I mean.

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Reply 3 of 9, by OG-loc

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thanks for your comment,

i collected these info about patches and working with dosbox in 1 day 🤣..
il work the tips out you gave me,

thx for responding!!

if this works 🤣 the whole family wil be happy 😀
the last time we played The 7 Guest was on
a pc with windows 3.1 so... but that was a loooooong time ago
so you know how happy we are if it works 🤣 ^^

and again thx

Reply 4 of 9, by OG-loc

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hia MiniMax,

i did what you told me.
all goes fine...
when playing the start screen with the cursor and all gives sound so that is no problem.

but now i get even the problem when starting the game!!!
Dox box says:

Error: file is not a VDX file.

im back at the begin problem 😵

Reply 5 of 9, by MiniMax

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It might help with a little more information. Try this in DOSBox:

1) MOUNT C "C:\Users\............ whatever you wrote when you installed it"
2) MOUNT D "G:\" -t cdrom

3) C:
4) CD ID
5) CD T7G
6) DIR C: > DIRLIST1.TXT
7) DIR D: > DIRLIST2.TXT
8) EXIT

Now go to the T7G folder in Vista, and open DIRLIST1.TXT and DIRLIST2.TXT in Notepad, and post the contents of those 2 files here.

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Reply 6 of 9, by OG-loc

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content:

C:\ID\T7G

21-11-2008 21:26 <DIR> .
21-11-2008 21:26 <DIR> ..
21-11-2008 17:49 14.775 ADLIB.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 16.257 ADLIBG.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 5.770 ALGDIG.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 6.725 AT.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 760 AT.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 2.388 B.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 2.800 B.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 7.365 CH.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 1.620 CH.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 1.654 CR.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 2.100 D.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 7.100 D.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 862 DEBUG.T7G
21-11-2008 17:49 466 DEMO.GRV
21-11-2008 21:26 3.832 DIRLIST1.TXT
21-11-2008 17:49 5.546 DR.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 2.140 DR.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 3.169 EK.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 1.349 F.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 3.622 FAT.AD
21-11-2008 17:49 48.770 FAT.MT
21-11-2008 17:49 3.622 FAT.OPL
21-11-2008 17:49 3.960 FH.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 965 FILES.AL
21-11-2008 17:49 2.442 GA.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 2.860 GA.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 3.700 GAMWAV.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 1.086 GRATE.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 346 GROOVIE.INI
21-11-2008 17:49 3.140 H.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 4.098.309 HDISK.GJD
21-11-2008 17:49 160 HDISK.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 5.153 HM.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 3.960 HTBD.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 43.762 INSTALL.EXE
21-11-2008 17:49 1.960 INTRO.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 3.224 JH.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 4.760 JHEK.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 1.873 K.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 16.360 K.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 5.939 LA.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 2.500 LA.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 2.168 LI.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 2.000 LI.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 3.652 MAZE.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 3.981 MB.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 1.280 MB.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 2.240 MC.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 10.707 MT32MPU.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 1.354 MU.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 860 MU.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 842 N.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 10.920 N.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 1.125 P.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 880 P.RL
21-11-2008 17:49 4.361 PASDIG.ADV
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21-11-2008  17:49            15.242 PASFM.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 16.333 PASOPL.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 2.934 README.TXT
21-11-2008 17:49 47.668 ROB.GJD
21-11-2008 18:23 1.315 SAVE.Z
21-11-2008 17:49 4.667 SBDIG.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 14.825 SBFM.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 15.235 SBP1FM.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 16.357 SBP2FM.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 4.946 SBPDIG.ADV
21-11-2008 17:49 16.659 SCRIPT.GRV
21-11-2008 17:49 11.112 SPHINX.FNT
21-11-2008 17:49 6 T7G.BAT
21-11-2008 17:49 8 T7GDEMO.BAT
21-11-2008 17:49 2.160 TANDY.DRV
21-11-2008 17:49 21.473 V.EXE
21-11-2008 17:49 257.251 XMI.GJD
21-11-2008 17:49 1.420 XMI.RL


F:\ (disk 1)

21-04-1993 12:49 111 INSTALL.BAT
21-04-1993 11:31 <DIR> T7G

F:\T7G (disk 1)

21-04-1993 11:31 <DIR> .
21-04-1993 10:20 <DIR> ..
08-03-1993 17:00 25.672.908 B.GJD
08-03-1993 16:51 16.889.832 CH.GJD
08-03-1993 17:14 31.565.570 D.GJD
08-03-1993 17:11 23.532.001 DR.GJD
08-03-1993 17:45 94.315.192 FH.GJD
08-03-1993 17:23 26.905.546 GA.GJD
16-02-1993 17:49 10.709.519 GAMWAV.GJD
08-03-1993 17:37 43.211.514 HTBD.GJD
24-03-1993 19:55 30.611.047 INTRO.GJD
08-03-1993 18:03 45.053.968 JHEK.GJD
08-03-1993 18:06 41.165.447 K.GJD
08-03-1993 18:13 31.590.902 LA.GJD
24-03-1993 15:52 51.284.217 LI.GJD
10-03-1993 12:41 28.133.514 MB.GJD
08-03-1993 18:36 38.925.255 MC.GJD
08-03-1993 18:30 16.087.706 MU.GJD
08-03-1993 18:45 45.452.282 N.GJD
08-03-1993 18:41 11.897.552 P.GJD

I hope i gave you the right information!,
Greets,

OG-loc

Reply 7 of 9, by arablizzard2413

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Why not play the game on the ScummVM subversion build? The only thing that's not working is the AI for the microscope puzzle and a few music glitches. Otherwise it's perfectly playable.

SVN Subversion build:
http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/downloads/scummvm-win32.exe

How to get it running:
http://code.google.com/p/t7gre/wiki/PrepareGames

Reply 9 of 9, by MiniMax

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I have split this thread. For discussions about incorrect drawings, go here:

7th Guest - incorrect drawing

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