If everything is in order, select "OK" and choose to save the configuration. You can test both Digital and MIDI sound to see if you can hear them. When the DOS box has opened, input the next settings in the setup unless you change the equivalent defaults within VDMSound: Digital Device: Sound Blaster 16/AWE32 Use the default settings in the VDMS wizard. Now head to the Daggerfall directory, right-click setup.exe, and choose "Run with VDMS". VDMSound is hosted on SourceForge, download the latest VDMSound 2.1.0 and install it. This will help solve many potential problems before they even occur. "C:\Program Files\Daggerfall." Patching and installing VDMSound Äownload and install the latest official Daggerfall patch. NOTE: If you change the installation path, make sure you keep Daggerfall in a directory which complies with the DOS-compliant 8.3 convention: no spaces, no more than 8 characters in a file or directory name, and no more than 3 letters for file extension. Keep in mind, that Bethesda does not officially support either of these programs. You should not use the VDMSound package included with Bethesda installer, as a newer version is available. When it finishes go to the Daggerfall directory (default C:\DAGGER). Download the file and let it install while having Daggerfall CD in your CD-ROM drive. The game can be installed with either the unofficial fan-made installer (1.4MB), or the Bethesda WinXP Installer available on FilePlanet (44MB). This is also the method Bethesda recommends. Running Daggerfall with VDMSound is a functional method of playing the game especially on lower end Windows systems, which might not be able to run a fully emulated DOS environment functionally. It might not run smooth enough in older computers (Athlon XP or older Pentium 4, for example) Using VDMSound to run Daggerfall under Windows XP Computer speed and NTFS partitions may or may not still be an issue, but running in a DOS mode will probably help. Once set up correctly the game should run fairly well. Installing Daggerfall (or Arena) under it is a simple process you merely need your original copy of DOS 6.3 or Windows 95 (which also includes DOS 6.3). Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 is now a free download to promote the upcoming 2007 edition. Considering all these facts, it is highly advised to use DOSBox when running Daggerfall under a modern Windows-OS. In addition to the problems with the quest object strafe, backwards moves, climbing, swimming and jumping are almost impossible to perform. Always keep that in mind because, if you embark on the Main Quest or a quest line, you will have serious troubles. Once the quest is active, switching to DosBox or similar applications doesn't solve this problem, since the quest data is already stored in your savegame, you have to start the quest from the scratch. This issue causes the quest object to be invisible, hence it will be nearly impossible to find or kill a quest object, since it can not be seen. There is a serious memory issue when running Daggerfall under a modern Windows-OS such as Windows-XP.
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