The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

Redguard was a great game with a finely built world, many possibilities and a great swashbuckling atmosphere. Unfortunately I can't recommend this version: The emulated version is terribly slow, choppy and unpleasant. It seems, dosbox isn't capable of emulating the game properly. I'm not sure if the software-version would work faster, but on the GOG-version you can't change 3D-acceleration to software mode. That's really sad, as it's a fine game, but in this condition it's not recommendable.

I had to go into the games install location and copy the game.gog file to another location, change the new game.gog file's extension to .iso, and then manually mount it to a disk drive in windows, then open the application "findredguard" to get access to the games install settings. I had to turn down all of the graphics settings, including glide, 3dfx texture scale, and the resolution down to their minimum values. I then opened nglide_config configuration in the install location, set all of the values to "by app (default)", set the aspect ratio to 4:3, turned off vertical synchronization, and change the gamma correction to 1.0 (default). It took a lot of work, but the game becomes playable after all of this and a very enjoyable experience. The only problem is the poor graphics quality.

My computer isn't top notch or anything, but for this game to be running single digit fps is a little ridiculous. I used to own a 3DFx Voodoo 5500 and it was buttery smooth with great graphics back then. I'm not sure what causes this level of performance, but it's not playable in this state. Surprising (as I'm used to getting great quality from GoG) and frustrating. There is a great action adventure hiding underneath somewhere though. If GoG manages to get this game playable, I would recommend it. Just not right now.

Heart broken. I've waited many years to play Redguard, so when i found out GOG has it up for sale i thought it was too good to be true, and it was. The version on Reguard GOG is selling is currently in an unplayable state. Dosbox cannot run the game at a playable frame rate. And yes i've tried every graphic, performance option possible, nothing works.