Can't get game to start

[Woof :3]

Every time I try to start it I can't even get the game to launch and it says dosbox has an error. I've tried changing the compatability for it, but no luck there. Running windows 8.1 64bit if that has anything to do with it.

[markis5150]

Same here. I'm on Windows 10 and it just errors out when DOS Box tries to run. And this is why I dont do day one purchases anymore. The one time i do this goes on. Getting a refund,screw this type of business.

[Woof :3]

I requested a refund and specificly mentioned the problem, and that I'd rebuy it if they fix it, however unlikely that may be. I do want the game, but I'm not throwing my money at something that doesn't work.

[markis5150]

I unpluged my XBox One pad and instantly DOS started up properly. It gave me a list of options to configure it,I just browsed over it and hit the save option whne exciting the key mapper area. After that I tried DOS Box again,with the controller plugged in,it errors out. Unplugged thre XBox One pad,DOS Box then allowed the game to boot up. Went into conrol options,said to calibrate controller,plugged the XBox pad in,no response. But this time DOS didn't crash,so apprently you can plug the controller in after DOS starts and boots the game. But there is no option for Xbox controller support,just keyboard and mouse only from what I'm seeing. I guess we could use something like Xpadder or Joy 2 Key. But yeah for now just start up DOS Box with no controller plugged into your PC and the game will start fine. Hope this helps. I'll add more later if I can get controllers to work without any 3rd party software.

[Woof :3]

Doesn't help me since I don't use a controller. Only thing like that I have is a wireless mouse.

[markis5150]

Try and hit the reset button on the botom of your mouse,once you boot up DOSBox? Maybe that'll get it to work? I have a wired mouse and it does work,got the game playing fine now but its weird moving your ship with a mouse. LOL. Need to use keyboard or grab joy2key and program it to my controller. Abit of a hurdle to jump through,meh. This always happens with old ass games.

[markis5150]

Ok update. The game's mouse control is awful. Even mapped its controls to an XBox One pad with joy2key,control still awful, Its like trying to control a car with 4 flat tires,you have no control,the game steers where it wants to and thats it. I was just refunded by Steam. Thank you Valve. It would have sucked to be stuck with this game. I wanted to like this game as I grew up playing it on Sega CD. But man its like they didn't even try to update the controls,at all. A shame really.

[d4_]

Originally posted by markis5150:

I unpluged my XBox One pad and instantly DOS started up properly. It gave me a list of options to configure it,I just browsed over it and hit the save option whne exciting the key mapper area. After that I tried DOS Box again,with the controller plugged in,it errors out. Unplugged thre XBox One pad,DOS Box then allowed the game to boot up. Went into conrol options,said to calibrate controller,plugged the XBox pad in,no response. But this time DOS didn't crash,so apprently you can plug the controller in after DOS starts and boots the game. But there is no option for Xbox controller support,just keyboard and mouse only from what I'm seeing. I guess we could use something like Xpadder or Joy 2 Key. But yeah for now just start up DOS Box with no controller plugged into your PC and the game will start fine. Hope this helps. I'll add more later if I can get controllers to work without any 3rd party software.

that actually worked, unplugging the controller, thanks

[Dube]

My problem with starting the game (Rebel Assault II) was the following: DOS Box has run but I had a green screen.

There is a solution for this problem:

1) Go to the folder where the game is installed to (in my case it is D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Wars - Rebel Assault 1 and 2.

2) Find DOS Box configuration file for the game (in my case Rebel Assault 2): dosbox_rebel2.conf

3) Open that file with notepad.

4) Find within it the line starting with "output".

5) The line starting with "output" will be presented as: output=overlay

6) Change the word "overlay" with the word "surface" in this line.

7) Save changes.

8) Run the game.


P.S. My OS is Windows 7 Prof. 64-bit.

Hope this will be helpfull.

[NRay7882]

I tried all of the steps listed in this thread to no luck, I got mine working by disabling Shadowplay in the Nvidia Geforce Experience.

The first time I launched the game after installing it, it worked fine. But it was in a very small window that I could not maximize, not even with Alt + Enter. So I Quit from the Rebel Assault I menu, relaunched and the game stopped loading. I went through every step here one by one, then finally thought about the overlay and how it rendered the FPS at a very large resolution. That's when I tried disabling the Overlay UI and now everything is working fine.

Additionally, I am able to use a wired USB xbox 360 controller without issue. I mean, the game controls are super-touchy, but the point is the controller loads up at launch without crashing.

[gabore]

Tried the mentions here, overlay options, other guides, proton versions, conf combinations. Nothing so far on proton :( Maybe later on windows...

[gabore]

Originally posted by gabore:

Tried the mentions here, overlay options, other guides, proton versions, conf combinations. Nothing so far on proton :( Maybe later on windows...

Starts now on my Ubuntu's OS drive. Like to use the external drive for Steam Library but whatever, maybe something about drive mount options.

[bubbidolo]

Same here: the games simply don't launch. Tried to fix dosbox.cfg but nothing happened.

[gabore]

Originally posted by bubbidolo:

Same here: the games simply don't launch. Tried to fix dosbox.cfg but nothing happened.

What platform for you? Win/linux?

[bubbidolo]

Acer laptop Intel i7 3.2 Ghz, 16 Gb Ram, GeForce GTX 850M, Windows 8.1 64 bit. Latest drivers and updates and all the correlate junk.