[mdz]

I am trying to run 7th Guest on my Dell with Windows XP. I installed the game and all of the patches. Whenever I open the Trilobyte player (v32tng) I get a few moments of music with a black screen and then a message saying: "unknown asset type -- please restart". When I have Disk 2 in the drive I get the appropriate spooky music and bony hand icon asking me to put Disk 1 into the drive so the player seems to be working sometimes. Thank you for your help.

[Relic]

Have you tried running it in windows '98 mode yet? If not, right click the shortcut, then click Properties/Compatibility, then set it to run in '98 mode. Works for a lot of games, give it a whirl.

[mdz]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have tried running it in Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows 95 compatibility modes. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

[Relic]

Is this originally a DOS based game?

[mdz]

Yes it is originally DOS based.

[Relic]

Okay, if it's a DOS game, I suggest you trying running it in DOS, which you can do by scooping DOSBox, get it here: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

It works, I've used it myself to run a few old games. The prob I had was that after I got them up and running, I was so disappointed by the graphics(which looked good back then), that I couldn't handle playing them, they were sad man, really sad, heh heh heh

[hillel_kitty]

I've got DOSBox up and running, but I can't get 7th Guest to recognize my sound card. Tho I use the built-in sound card that came with my motherboard, DOSBox is supposed to emulate SB 16. But 7th Guest tells me that my sound drivers aren't loaded. I've got the IRQ/DMA settings right for the install (they match my DOSBox config), but they still won't load! And I can't play the game w/o them. Any suggestions?

[Smiling Spectre]

Try to change card settings in game. I definitely was able to start 7th Guest n DOSBox, and it was recently. But not so recently, that I could remember, how to set sound in this game. As I can assume, it something about "select card, select IRQ, test settings, save settings". Maybe you simply forget to save settings? If not, try SB or SB Pro, not SB16.

[vailr]

"7th Guest" should run in Windows, when using the downloaded file "v32tng.exe" to run the game.
http://www.tbyte.com/downloads/t7gwinnv.zip
Run the installer (7th Guest-disc 2) from a DOS window (Start_Run_Cmd), which copies the files to the c:\Id\t7g folder. Then copy the downloaded file's content (extracted from the .zip file) to the c:\Id\t7g directory. Double-click "C:\ID\T7G\v32tng.exe" to run the game. Alt-Enter toggles between Full Screen & window.
There's no DOS drivers for my SB Audigy sound card, so running in Windows is the only option.
Runs fine for a while; I can solve one or two of the "puzzles", then the game crashes and abruptly quits.
Force saving: move the cursor to the top of the screen, where it should turn into a sphinx pointer (pyramid with eyeball). Click this to get a prompt for game options, one of which should be "save". You get to pick an empty slot of 10 available to save.

[fraze1]

I have tried all of these and I still continue to get errors. I tried installing the game with DOSbox. When I tried to run it, I got the error about my sound card. I looked online and found the DirectX "patch". I have configured this to work, but I still get the "unknown asset type -- please restart" error message sometimes while playing the gmae. It closes the game, and I have to start from the last save. I have tried each compatability setting with the same result. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate your help.

[tgh]

hi there, thanks to all concerned for the advice. I too was having problems runnig 7th guest. Thanks to "vailr" we are running! We do have three problems still if anyone can help:
>is its very unstable and i keep crashing.
>So far havn't been able to save it, moving the cursor to the top produces a triangle with a dot (maybe a pyramid with an eye!?), but clicking causes an error and a crash!
> Cant skip the opening sequences,

Can anyone help?

[tgh]

hi there, thanks to all concerned for the advice. I too was having problems runnig 7th guest. Thanks to "vailr" we are running! We do have three problems still if anyone can help:
>is its very unstable and i keep crashing.
>So far havn't been able to save it, moving the cursor to the top produces a triangle with a dot (maybe a pyramid with an eye!?), but clicking causes an error and a crash!
> Cant skip the opening sequences,

Can anyone help?