I need help with Betony demo Error 0

Chaos Kin Dar · Post by **Chaos Kin Dar** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:12 am

When ever I run the Betony demo I get Error 0 and I'm on windos 98.

Nirreln · Post by **Nirreln** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:14 am

Try reinstalling error 0 usually is the result of a bad install.

Guten Tag the Argonian · Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:02 pm

The reinstall does not work, me and chaos are on the same computer, I have tried the minimum, medium, and large install sizes.

Chaos Kin Dar · Post by **Chaos Kin Dar** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:02 pm

It didn't work.

Guten Tag the Argonian · Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:02 pm

Me and Chaos still need help with this problem, reinstalling does not seem to work.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:17 pm

The original post says windows 98. Chaos and Guten Tag, you are on the same computer but it might help to provide some specs. Another idea, might be trying to get a hold of Magnus, I believe he is knowledgable on Daggerfall, but he's not on the forums much.

Guten Tag the Argonian · Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:42 pm

Where would I find out what the specs are?

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:57 pm

Let's start at what version of windows are you running?

Guten Tag the Argonian · Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:03 pm

Windows 98 2 edition, is this what you mean by windows version.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:45 pm

I came across this on a search maybe something from here will help.

http://www.3dgamers.com/news/more/1091968001/

Guten Tag the Argonian · Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:06 pm

Thanks for the article Bear, this may be what is wrong

i) Users with MS-DOS 6.0 and 6.1 may experience crashes to DOS with a message saying "Daggerfall has encountered an internal error at 0. The error reported was: Error reading faction file

I probally should have read about the demo before I downloaded it from there. How do I find out what version of MS-DOS I am using and how would I update it?

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:45 pm

windows 95 came out with MS DOS 7.0, so I would say if you have it at all you have this version or better. I am really unsure as I skipped a few years with computer systems as my original was a dos system and didn't get a new computer until Windows ME. I haven't found much info about dos after windows 95 though.

Codex · Post by **Codex** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:41 pm

Windows ME

Now how was your experience with it? I know I had my share of swearing in front of the computer back then

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:44 pm

I absolutely hated ME, and was very glad when XP came out. I am not excited about Vista at all either. I think I'll stay with XP for awhile.

I am sorry to Guten Tag and Chaos, I just don't know enough about daggerfall. My brother had given me the game, but I couldn't get it to work(didn't know anything about DOS BOX then), so I sold it at a rummage sale for 50 cents or something.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:49 pm

did you try the suggestion of updating your CD-Rom driver?

Guten Tag the Argonian · Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:24 pm

How would I update the driver?

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:43 pm

start, settings, control panel, system, hardware, device manager, locate CD- ROM, right click, update driver. I hope that is how it works.

Guten Tag the Argonian · Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:22 pm

I can't update, have the latest version it says.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:02 pm

Sorry, but other than physically sitting down at your computer I don't see where I can be of anymore help, and I'm not sure that would help.

Guten Tag the Argonian · Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:15 pm

Thanks for the help. We are going to stop trying to get the demo to work, our computer is old and will probably stop working right at some point (it wouldn't be the first, secound, third, or fourth time).

Magnus · Post by **Magnus** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:41 pm

Aha, hello.

Have you attempted to reboot in to MS-DOS mode and run it from there? That fixed the problem for me, it has something to do with Windows. Also, make sure you have enough free RAM for it (through the .exe settings.) See if that helps!