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Old 16-11-2004, 08:54 PM   #1
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I have The Riddle of Master Lu!
Don't know if your familiar with the game (the best adventure ever - in my opinion), I had the original CD for years now, but I can't make it work anymore.
On the old PC it worked fine (but I had a really weak graphic card - Trident some number).
The game used VESA and the graphic was great.
But now I cant get it to run on any of the new system (WinXP, WinME & Win2k) because the graphic card is different and I can't emulate the one I'd want.
The only progres was made with VDMSound when I tick emulate basic VESA - then it chrashes after the thirs subcommand on the install program (otherwise it chrashed after during the first step).
The problem seems to be the VESA driver, but I'm not sure really.
Anybody has a suggestion?
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Old 16-11-2004, 09:16 PM   #2
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I got game somewhere, might give it a try....
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Old 16-11-2004, 10:05 PM   #3
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And what about DosBox?
                       
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Old 16-11-2004, 10:29 PM   #4
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Are you sure it is the VESA? On WinME I have no problem running games like WC3+4 that use VESA. Might just be the game using a wierd commandset.
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Old 17-11-2004, 07:36 AM   #5
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Could be you're right Picard. I only have the problem with this game (and with 11th Hour cut scenes). Other VESA games work normaly.
I'll give it a few more trys.
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Old 17-11-2004, 09:01 AM   #6
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As long as my limited knowledge on the matter allows me to say, you should have a VESA driver loaded to be able to run games which need VESA. However, I think that you need a screen which is SVGA compatible to run VESA, VGA screens are not able to do it.

At least it never worked for me with my old 486, and it was a VGA screen...
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Old 17-11-2004, 09:59 AM   #7
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game runs fine in dosbox as far as i know.
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Old 17-11-2004, 02:34 PM   #8
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Originally posted by Data@Nov 17 2004, 11:59 AM
game runs fine in dosbox as far as i know.
Can't even install it :not_ok:
DosBox says it's trying to free a memory block that is already free,

VDMS - after I select the VESA compatibility goes two steps further and then says it's not VESA compatible.

I guess my only chance is to return to an older computer!
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Old 17-11-2004, 03:00 PM   #9
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Unfortunate i don't have the game. Did you try running it with an older version of dosbox ?
say 0.61 instead of 0.62. The compatibility report of dosbox is with the version 0.61

You have to mount your cdroms with -ioctl as well.


http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.ph...D=1738&letter=T
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Old 17-11-2004, 03:01 PM   #10
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I found game last night (while looking for Explorer pack) and will try to install it soon (got to do something for UNI first). As far as I remember, game worked fine on my old Win98 comp.
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