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An alternative method to running DFUnity through Steam

By Reasonable

How to setup DFUnity to run through Steam, if the method of renaming files isn't working for you.

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Guide Index

Overview

Installing DaggerfallGameFiles.zip

Installing and setting up DFUnity

Setting launch options in Steam

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Installing DaggerfallGameFiles.zip

Bethesda released a patch updating the game files to the latest version of Daggerfall. Feel free to IGNORE this first step, as its no longer required. I will leave the link to DaggerfallGameFiles.zip here incase anyone needs it though.

https://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?t=2360

Use the link above to download DaggerfallGameFiles.zip, this is required as the Steam version comes with an outdated version of Daggerfall (Thanks, Bethesda).

Ideally, save the zip to your Daggerfall Steam Folder.

Extract the contents of the .zip to the DF/DAGGER folder within the Daggerfall steam folder

And that's the first step done.

Installing and setting up DFUnity

https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity/releases

Use the link above to download the latest version of DFUnity. (Scroll down and download the version for your OS under the Assets drop down)

Save this to your Daggerfall folder as well and extract its contents to a new folder of any name (I named mine DFUnity in the example.)

Next you need to get the directory of the DaggerfallUnity.exe you just installed. In this example mine was

"D:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall\DFUnity\DaggerfallUnity.exe"

Your's will very likely be different from this! You can find this easy in windows 10 by going to your DFUnity folder, right-clicking the DaggerfallUnity.exe, click Properties, click Security, then using CTRL+C on the object name at the top. (Windows 11 users may need to click Show More Options to see the Properties button)

Setting launch options in Steam

Right-click Daggerfall in your steam library then click Properties...

Under launch options, add the directory pointing to your DaggerfallUnity.exe you grabbed earlier. If there are any spaces in this directory, which there most likely are, you MUST put quotations around it, use " at the start AND end of the directory.

You must also add %command% to the launch options AFTER the directory.

And you're done! Launching through steam should launch DFUnity instead of DOSBox now. Make sure to point DFUnity to the "DF/DAGGER" folder that you installed the game files to at the beginning and every will work just fine!

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D.MURE 5 May @ 3:39pm

thx!

Reasonable [author] 20 Aug, 2023 @ 8:33pm

I've made that mistake plenty of times before. Don't beat yourself up over it!

AverageNerd 20 Aug, 2023 @ 7:28pm

Okay so i no longer need help, silly me just downloaded the source code file... listen, im not the smartest, but its working, so thats good

AverageNerd 20 Aug, 2023 @ 7:18pm

I can't seem to find the DaggerfallUnity.exe folder. It doesn't appear anywhere in my DFUnity folder. Is there anywhere else i could look or any workarounds, or just any solutions overall?

SavageCabbage05 28 Nov, 2022 @ 8:26pm

@DeathWrench Bro this is the best method I've found so far, this way I can play the game through steam without changing anything and still letting me use MO2/Vortex. Write a guide for it if you haven't

Sir Cumference 10 Sep, 2022 @ 6:35am

Get autohotkey.
Paste this into an empty text file called DOSBox.ahk and save

SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
Run, "Daggerfall.lnk"

Right click the .ahk and compile it, it will now be DOSBox.exe (replace the one in steam directory)
Create a shortcut for Daggerfall Unity and rename it Daggerfall
Paste it into same directory as DOSBox.exe
Now when you launch Daggerfall through steam it will think you're playing the real Daggerfall.

Jorgle 21 Jul, 2022 @ 3:21pm

thank you :)

K-Bone 23 May, 2022 @ 8:33pm

One question about this method, I want to do the same thing for Skyrim but to have it launch Mod Organizer 2's shortcut to launch SKSE, so I wonder if this method allows for command arguments after the executable ie "../ModOrganizer exe moshortcut://Skyrim Special Edition:SKSE"

syzygy.exe 21 May, 2022 @ 3:09am

Thanks a lof man! Works just fine!

Half-Vampire 10 May, 2022 @ 10:22pm

This guide is simply the best and easy to follow. We can switch between Unity and 1.0 on the fly with Launch Options. Thank you so much for this! Been playing for over 10 hours now, no problem.

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