the dark eye install help

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3 total messages Started by Gabriel Knight Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:23

#349945

Author: Gabriel Knight
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:23

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Hello all,

I have installed the old dos version of the game The Dark Eye on my win xp 
quad core desktop pc but Ide like the quicktime movies to play faster as 
most of the game is played from the pc and the cd rom. My question is - is 
it possable to run the game totaly from the pc's hdd by copying all the 
contents of the cd rom to the hdd. I looked for an ini file from the 
original install on my C drive but it has no reference for the location of 
the cd rom files. Is there a home made patch to do what I need like there is 
for Gabriel Knight 2 with its some 6 cds?

Thanks
GK

Re: the dark eye install help

#349946

Author: rms
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:40

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?>I have installed the old dos version of the game The Dark Eye on my win xp
quad core desktop pc

    I just tried to install this under win7-64, with no joy :(  It's 
entirely 16bit, and won't run at all.  Would a virtual cd drive work for 
your issue?

rms

Re: the dark eye install help

#349947

Author: Rikard Peterson
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:43

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In article <%Mn4p.9932$MF5....@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>,
 "Gabriel Knight" <fa...@nothing.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have installed the old dos version of the game The Dark Eye on my win xp 
> quad core desktop pc but Ide like the quicktime movies to play faster as 
> most of the game is played from the pc and the cd rom. My question is - is 
> it possable to run the game totaly from the pc's hdd by copying all the 
> contents of the cd rom to the hdd. I looked for an ini file from the 
> original install on my C drive but it has no reference for the location of 
> the cd rom files. Is there a home made patch to do what I need like there is 
> for Gabriel Knight 2 with its some 6 cds?
> 
> Thanks
> GK 

Well, as it's a dos-game, it should be possible to do what you want 
using DosBox. I don't know how, though.

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