WC3 and WC4 Demo Problems

[Triple-B]

Hi,

I have the same problem with the wc3 and wc4 demo as depicted in the screenshot. I tried to run both games with vesa enabled and disabled, but whatever I do,I get the same error?

anyone got a dosbox setting that works?

thanks in advance

 

[criticalmass]

Have you tried this: http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=22068
or this: http://www.vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?p=166029&sid=851f102c5601548d34cda38279406230

 

[Madman]

So in short, run the installer with cycles of around 7000, set ems=false and make sure you're running the wc4demo from folder mounted in dosbox as C:\wc4demo\

 

[Triple-B]

wc4demo runs fine with ems disabled, but wc3demo gives the error, that max tre files 8 exceeded

 

[criticalmass]

Could you please note the exact error message? "max tre files 8 exceeded" doesn't ring any bell, except a faint suspicion of the old DOSbox issue of defining too much memory.

 

[Madman]

This sounds like the sort of thing that "files=30" in the config.sys would have fixed in real dos...

 

[Triple-B]

sorry, was a bit lazy there, so here is the shot

 

[Madman]

Hmm, so I have a slightly wierd dosbox 0.74 setup, which means I don't load ems in dosbox, and instead load emm386 (the dos 6.2 ems controller) via qemm's (another memory manager) device.com (which means i can load, the traditionally in the config.sys, himem.sys in autoexec)...

Anyway, the gist is that I dont use dosbox's ems controller.

with that wc3 works fine (if cycles set to 7000) if VERY slowly. wc4 will play the video okay but crashes out to command prompt with exception 14 (the one dosbox's ems causes) which is wierd.

SO i re-ran wc3demo and wc4demo on my dosbox 0.72 install and both worked fine at 7000 cycles (again slowly) and with ems=false. In practice though, it seems to be simply completing the speed test that needs cycles of 7000.

I certainly cannot find any reason why the max_tree files error appears. However, I attach my dosbox 0.72 config file and my dosbox 0.73 (which is more like 0.74's)

note that the wc4demo video is very laggy, no matter what I do, very bizarre

 

[ChrisReid]

WC4 does need a fairly powerful computer to emulate smoothly - something that can do 30-50,000 cycles. If you are only running 7000, it will absolutely chug along slowly.

 

[Madman]

Ah but, chris, if you have the cycles set to greater than 7000 then the speed test at the start of the wc3demo crashes you out.