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The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

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The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard cover
Developers
Bethesda Softworks
Engines
XnGine
Release dates
DOS November 14, 1998
Windows (DOSBox) August 27, 2015[1]
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⤏ Go to series page
The Elder Scrolls: Arena 1994
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall 1996
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire 1997
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard 1998
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 2002
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 2006
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2011
The Elder Scrolls Online 2014
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 2016
The Elder Scrolls: Legends 2017
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR 2018
The Elder Scrolls: Blades TBA
The Elder Scrolls VI TBA

Key points

Use DOSBox on modern systems (see Run in DOSBox).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Pre-packaged with a Glide-compatible build of DOSBox.
Windows
A demo is available.

Essential improvements

Run in DOSBox

Configure DOSBox[2][3]
  1. Install Redguard normally in Windows.
  2. Install DOSBox SVN Daum.
  3. Edit the DOSBox configuration file (dosbox-SVN-Daum.conf).
  4. Change splash=true to splash=false
  5. Change memsize=16 to memsize=63
  6. Change timed=true to timed=false
  7. Save the changes.
  8. Go to the DOSBox SVN Daum installation folder and delete or rename glide2x.dll.
  9. Install nGlide and set the resolution and aspect ratio as desired.
  10. Run RGFX.EXE through DOSBox SVN Daum.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SYSTEM.INI
Windows <path-to-game>\SYSTEM.INI[Note 1]<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME\
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME\[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Download and info:
1) Unofficial translation by «Fargus Multimedia»
2) Unofficial translation by «7th Wolf»

Issues fixed

"GLIDE2X.DLL not found! Redguard was unable to find your 3dfx drivers" error on launch

Use DOSBox[3]

Use DOSBox (see Run in DOSBox).

DOSBox closes on launch or shows "Fatal error: unable to load DLL" error

Fix Glide[3]

Glide is missing or incorrectly configured (see Run in DOSBox).

No sound

The Redguard launcher can't configure sound on modern versions of Windows.
Make replacement DIG.INI[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\sound\
  2. Make a new file called DIG.INI.
  3. Add the following lines:
    4. DEVICE      Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16, AWE32 or AWE64
DRIVER      SB16.DIG
IO_ADDR     220h
IRQ         -1
DMA_8_BIT   -1
DMA_16_BIT  -1
  4. Save your changes.

Constant movement with a controller connected

Set timed setting[3]
  1. Edit the DOSBox configuration file.
  2. Change timed=true to timed=false
  3. Save your changes.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Glide
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 350 MB
Video card (GPU) 3dfx
Redguard officially requires Windows due to the Windows-based installer and launcher but is actually a DOS game.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References