] I load up my dosbox and turn on dungeon keeper one and this is what I get.
And it stays there the whole time, never moving. I waited fifteen minutes before giving up.
It does go through a few loading screens first just to get me excited and it LOOKS like it TRIES to load the menu but immediately switches to this screen.

I am running windows 7. I have tried bothe the base version of dosbox and the version given to me to no avail and I've used every exe and batchfile that was downloaded. No matter what I do I get this circle.

Help?

there are a couple of things you need to check.

Open up dosboxDK.conf in notepad, this should be located in your dungeon keeper folder. Go down to the bottom, and there should be an [autoexec] set of instructions for dosbox. It should be mounting the cd image to dosbox. Something like this:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount C .
imgmount d "game.inst" -t iso -fs iso
c:
cls
Keeper.exe
exit

Make sure it says something like that, if it doesn't, add it.

Also, the you need to make sure that the shortcut to run dungeon keeper loads this config file, so the target line should have -conf dosboxDK.conf after the executable.

The only other thing I can think of is check keeper.cfg to make sure that the install path in there is correct? If it is pointing to a directory to look for a CD, try changing it to where it is installed in your C drive. It shouldn't be needed, because dosbox should be avoiding that.

my guess would be the games installed in program files/gog and uac is on.

Either right click and run as admin, or install to different directory

Ok. Amazing. This is really important. If anyone out there is trying to get Dungeon Keeper working in DOSBox, it's important to know that you might need to change the KEEPER.CFG file to read whatever the actual installation file of your game is. I couldn't get it to launch until I set it to:

C:\Dungeo~1

This is because I have my filesystem pointingthe C drive to C:\Games, so Dungeon Keeper (inside of DOSBox) needs to see where it is in the filesystem.

The GOG installation start file avoids this by launching from within the Dungeon Keeper directory and setting that directory as C: directly, so it essentially matches the default location in the KEEPER.CFG file.

If you are playing the game in DOSBox outside of the GOG startup file (with Staging for example) you need to set this file manually.