Hmmm. You seem to have done everything by the book. I am a little curious about the -usecd 0 option.

What is the output of mount -cd ? Is your E: drive really no. 0 ?

I assume you also read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox?

when i type mount -cd i get :

c:\> mount -cd
CDROMS found: 1
0. e:\

yes i read your 60 sec guide thats how i got this far.

What OS are you using?

windows vista 32 bit

Read my AFU guide here:
STTNG: A Final Unity Installation Guide for DosBox

You need a different installer and you need to turn the DOSBOX cycles way down for it to find the DVDROM drive.

😕

Why would you save a screenshot as an RTF? If you are on Windows and you don't have any image editing software, just use MS Paint and save it as a PNG.

My mistake as i said i am a newbie to all this!

It looks like you didn't mount the CDROM. If you installed the game from the CD and then run it with the CDROM mounted at the same drive letter, it should definitely run.

Also make sure you do not move the game to a new folder after you install it. The "ini" file has a path setting for the folder the game is installed to. Or, if you do move it, make sure you edit the "ini" and change the Path= setting to whereever you moved it to. You really should just use the game's default install folder (C:\STTNG).

here's my STTNG.ini

1Audio=SB16
2Port=0x220
3IRQ=0x7
4DMA=0x5
5Video=HI16
6DPixel=ON
7Path=C:\STTNG\
8CD=D:\
9Sound=ON
10Music=ON
11Voices=ON
12Movies=ON
13Advice=0
14Dialogs=OFF
15VolSound=0x7FFF
16VolMusic=0x7FFF
17UniVESA=ON

"STFU" = 🤣

swaaye wrote:

It looks like you didn't mount the CDROM. If you installed the game from the CD and then run it with the CDROM mounted at the same drive letter, it should definitely run.

Also make sure you do not move the game to a new folder after you install it.

No, no - it can't be that simple. Remember, he wrote:

> yes i read your 60 sec guide thats how i got this far.

And in that guide I explicitly tell people not to change their mounts unless they be prepared to re-install the game (or really know what they are doing).

NO, I think you have got the wrong end of the stick, the game is NOT installed (hence the title installation problem!) My problem is that when i mount the CD rom which mounts fine to the best of my knowledge i try to install the game for example:

mount c c:\users\study\games

mount d e:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

C:> d:
D:>cd stfu
d:/stfu>cd stfuinst
d:/stfu/stfuinst>install

the game now starts its installation and gets as far as hardware detection before it shows a yellow line over CDROM saying it detects none (yet it is running from it!)

I have tried patches and turning down the cpu cycles all with the same result any one know how this is repaired?

Thanks

shouldn't the installer be in the root of the CD-Rom? If it isn't, is it a legit copy? If it isn't a legit copy are you sure that is a Dosbox problem and not a stupid WAREZ copy problem?

Edit: After reading the replies - sorry, didin't know about the installer issue.

he's using the patched installer for nextgen systems. That's the only one that works with DOSBOX.

just put that installer in your root of C drive. Then run it as it instructs in the readme. Penfold, I hope you read my thread about installing this game.

This is a known issue with the original installer for this game. He has to use the updated installer.

The original installer doesn't work because of the cdrom speed thing, right?
That is even with very low cycles it doesn't work?

Thats right even with the updated installer it doesnt recognise my drive/disk

Next version might run it (as you seemingly ignore what collector and swaaye write).

I am not ignoring anyone i tried thier suggestions and it didnt work for me simple as now unless you have something constructive to write dont bother

So the installation guide that swaaye has posted here doesn't work for you?