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1. What's the best setting for my Windows Daggerfall shortcut?
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2. What's the best install size?
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3. How do I play without the CD?
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4. Could someone send me a free copy of Daggerfall?
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| 1. What's the best setting for my Windows Daggerfall shortcut? |
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A. You need to turn off write behind Caching:
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To turn off write caching, right click on MY COMPUTER, select properties,
then select file performance. From the performance options selection file
system, then the troubleshooting tab. On the Troubleshooting options make
sure you check "disable write behind caching for all drives" (Right-click
on game icon) Select PROPERTIES - Under memory set EMS to NONE, XMS and
CONVENTION to AUTO, SET DPMI to 24MB. Set Initial Environment to 2048.
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Also under its "Properties" set:
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Do not allow screensaver
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Always Suspend in background
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Usage: Full Screen
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Mouse Exclusive
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Make sure that you UNCHECK CLOSE ON EXIT.
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Make sure that you UNCHECK SUGGEST DOS MODE IF NECESSARY.
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DO NOT attempt to run the game from the AUTORUN.
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Have a small 2 line CONFIG.SYS on your C root directory:
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DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
FILES=90
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| 2. What's the best install size? |
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A. So far as I know, the "Average" install size should be adequate, particularly
if you have a fast CD ROM. Higher sizes will continue to improve the smoothness
of play. A "Huge" install size is necessary to pull off the playing without
the CD trick (which, from what I hear, is as smooth as it gets).
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| 3. How do I play without the CD? |
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A. First of all, let it be known that the people of the newsgroup do not
appreciate software piracy. This known, I will now explain how this is done,
often because of a slow CD-ROM, the desire to play other music through Win95,
etc...
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To run daggerfall without the cd you do the following:-
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1. Install daggerfall with the largest install size (about 450Mb).
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2. Copy all the files from the arena2 directory on the cd into arena2 on
your hard disk. There should only be a few that aren't already on there.
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3. Install the CompUSA patch.
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4. Install patch 213.
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5. Install the latest version of Fixsave (v1.75).
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6. Change the setting in z.cfg that shows where the cd path is to the arena2
directory on hard disk, e.g. pathcd=c:\dagger\arena2
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7. Make a batch file that reads as follows:-
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@echo off
set dos4gvm=@dagger.vmc
fall.exe z.cfg
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Name this something other than dagger.bat if you are running DF from DOS.
If you just key in dagger, it will run dagger.exe instead.
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| 4. Could someone send me a free copy of Daggerfall? |
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A. No. End of discussion.
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