Help to get Lemmings 3D to work on Windows XP Home

[Bonk01]

Would love some tips on how to get Lemmings 3D to work on my Computer, I have Windows XP Home edition

[DragonsLover]

Hi and welcome here Bonk01! B)

To get Lemmings 3D to work, try running it using Dosbox:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

[Shvegait]

While Lemmings 3D should run under Dosbox, it may have less than ideal performance (I couldn't get it to run at the correct speed, only by turning graphics to low and turning off sound and music could I get remotely close). Then again, it depends on your computer. But don't be shocked if it doesn't work as intended.

[Bonk01]

Thanks DragonsLover & Shvegait,

DragonsLover, sorry for the silly question do i down load the Windows Version of Dosbox, and if so I cant as my country is not there and when i tryed the closes country (Australia) it still wouldnt work? Anymore tips??
Rgds

[AstralLemming]

I'm in need of a little help too. I have a WinXP home too and I've got dosbox. One problem: When I try to change the sound and music options to the right driver on the "setup" file, I can't save the changes. Help?

[DragonsLover]

Bonk01: Yep, you select Windows and then choose any versions you want! It only shows the languages of the websites (or where they are made). Anyway, it doesn't matter!

AstralLemming: Mmhh... First, specify in Dosbox.conf the configuration of the sound card you want. Then, try to mount the drive without setting the complete way. Write (for example if the game is inside the folder C:\Lem3D):

mount c c:\
c:
cd Lem3D
setup.exe

It should help. In the setup program, try to specify correctly the place where the game is installed and the sound card you choosed. There's probably a place where there's an auto-configuration of your sound card, I don't remember... it there's one, use it. Then, it is supposed that there's "Save And Quit", something like this. Press on it to save the changes (it is supposed to). Then, run the game and see... huh... hear!

The sound isn't good anyway, all Lemmings voices are speaking too fast! The game is a little bit fast too.

[AstralLemming]

Slight problem: setup.exe isn't actually saving anything in the first place...

[tumble_weed]

hmm I just dug out my copy of L3D and mines not working to well either...it runs a bit slow and there's no sound!

[AstralLemming]

There's a big difference how it works on my computer and my Dad's. His is a '98 and it runs waaay too fast and on mine, an XP with DOSBox, it's about as fast as a dead slug. You'd think that because my machine is newer and (supposedly) better it would be the other way round...

[guest]

Well, comparing DOSBox and non-DOSBox performance is like comparing apples and oranges.  Remember, DOSBox is an emulator and in particular has to emulate in software all the graphics-related stuff that normally runs in the graphics card hardware.

The fact that it even manages to do something in DOSBox should be considered something of a miracle.    Well okay I'm exaggerating but you get the point.

Actually, just curious, does anyone get it to work in XP without DOSBox?

[rob jones]

Ive gone through all of that...
but when i try to run the game it says MSCDEX driver not found
any help??
B)

[guest]

Mount the CDROM by executing the DOSBox command

mount d d:\ -t cdrom

(replace "d" with whatever drive letter is for your CD-ROM drive)

[rob jones]

Ok, thats done, its recognised the driver, now, it just says "please insert cd into drive and close door"

[DragonsLover]

Well... is there a place in the installation program anything related with the CD-ROM drive?

[Gav]

i got it to work on XP but its far too slow