As far as compatibility within it, make sure you're enabling high-memory areas, otherwise some games will naturally run poorly (or not at all).
Hmm, I don't have any experience with any other apps outside of DosBox. PIF file named in the error changes each time you try to run the game using VDMSound, I have tried several games that are supposed to be compatible, including Wolf3D and Heretic.)Īny help/suggestions (for someone with non-programming skills)? Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.' (the. This one was hailed to be the best, but after properly installing it and following the instructions, I get a 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem error that reads 'C:\DOCUME~1\ARCADE\LOCALS~1\Temp\~VLP73AA.PIF Invalid startup directory, please check your pif file. Next was SoundFX2000, which worked great, but was a trial version only, and crashes the game after playing for 5min saying 'This is a trial version yada yada purchase the full version', (which is unsupported and hasn't been updated in years).
The first program I downloaded was DOS Box, which I personally found over complicated and confusing for my taste. Everyone knows there are lots of compatibility issues running DOS games under anything later than Windows 95.įor most games, sounds don't work properly, or at all, or cause game slowdowns or crashes.