How can I get daggerfall to start?

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How can I get daggerfall to start?

Post by Noah_The_Warlock »

I have installed DOSBox, but I am having a hard time understanding how it works. Can I get some help?
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Re: How can I get daggerfall to start?

Post by deadfong »

I never had much luck getting Dosbox and Daggerfall to work well together, but just a couple of days ago I downloaded DaggerfallSetup, and it installed smoothly and runs perfectly. Haven't had to tweek anything.

Download link can be found on the wiki here.
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Re: How can I get daggerfall to start?

Post by Avron the S'wit »

There's some work arounds like deadfong said, but I have no problem starting Daggerfall directly from DOSBox. On the official Bethesda download, there's a PDF that gives you instructions that are very straightforward.

If you're using a virtual disk, like with the download, then you'll have to mount that in DOSBox through a series of commands. I extracted the files to a folder C: dosgames, as recommended in Beth's PDF, and it works swimmingly. Granted, there's a few lines worth to enter each time, but it's not very difficult at all.
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Re: How can I get daggerfall to start?

Post by Werozzi »

Or use the auto launcher from wiwiland that i have recommended till exhaustion, it even includes an array of optional fixes and mods: http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?ti ... llSetup_EN
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Re: How can I get daggerfall to start?

Post by Jimboo84 »

If you download Daggerfall from http://www.elderscrolls.com/daggerfall/, follow the steps in the .pdf Installation Manual.
No issues arise.
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