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wangho
Dianoga
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Dec 16, 2008 19:04 Post subject: Dark Tide HELP!! |
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just downloaded the first 2 of the series and they both seem to crash right after the opening cutscenes. I'm using DOSBox on Vista. Any ideas? the renderer in the DOSbox config is opengl.
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lucius
DarkXL Developer
Joined: 17 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Dec 16, 2008 19:21 Post subject: |
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Increase the amount of memory allocated by DosBox. There is a configuration file, find the memory setting in there (I forget what its called now) and set it to 63. This allows Dos games to use up to 63MB of ram. You can play with the numbers of course but I think that was the maximum last time I checked (i.e. higher values don't make any difference - atleast in the version I'm using which isn't the most up to date).
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Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2008 03:40 Post subject: |
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I wonder, does increasing the RAM use make it faster? It seemed that when I played DTII, looking at the ATAT would always slow the game big time.
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wangho
Dianoga
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2008 04:59 Post subject: |
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hmm... still getting 'Landru Error'
and then 'Pointer Invalid'
and in DOSBox config:
memsize=63
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Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2008 06:01 Post subject: |
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I don't think it's an issue with the actual levels, I think it has something to do with the cutscenes and briefing. Check to make sure all the appropriate files are where they should be and try it again.
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wangho
Dianoga
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2008 14:43 Post subject: |
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i put all the .lfd's in the lfd folfer and everything else in the main Dark Forces folder
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wangho
Dianoga
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Dec 17, 2008 15:02 Post subject: |
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ok, I just put all the lfd's in the main folder and now it works. The initial readme I read was hard to read and I didnt see anything about installation. Then, I looked at Dark Tide 1's readme and it gave good directions. Thanks
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The MAZZTer
Death Star
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Dec 18, 2008 04:30 Post subject: |
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In most Dark Forces mods you are supposed to unzip them right into the Dark Forces folder. The LFD folder is not used since LFDs in the main folder override those in the LFD folder... so mods can temporarily store their LFDs there without messing with the main game files.
In the future please try to be more specific about crashes and errors. If you have said from the start that you were getting "Landru" errors we would have narrowed down the problem immediately (probably still would have recommended the memory change, but also would have asked how you were running the mod etc).
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