HEXENDK.EXE

''This article gives technical information about the commercial Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel application files. For gameplay information and walkthroughs, see Hexen.''

HEXENDK.EXE is the main executable for the original version of Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel.

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Applying the Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel CD Music Patch
1) Install Hexen using DosBox via one of the following methods:

1a) If you are mounting a physical CD within DosBox, type the following commands and press enter after each one:

mount d d:\ -t cdrom

d:

install c:\hexen

Note: If your physical CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive is not the D drive, change d:\ to the drive letter your system uses. For example, if your CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive is the E drive, change d:\ to e:\ instead. The first d after mount is needed because DosBox looks for the first optical disk drive starting at letter D.

1b) If you are mounting a BIN/CUE pair, type the following commands and press enter after each one:

z:

imgmount d path\to\hexencuefile.cue -t iso

d:

install c:\hexen

Note: Changing to the Z: drive is required by DosBox first when mounting either ISO files or BIN/CUE pairs.

2) If the version of Hexen you previously installed is 1.0, run the Hexen upgrade patch in the Hexen Deathkings installer in DosBox. If you have already installed Hexen 1.1, skip step 2 and proceed to step 3.

3) Install Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark citadel itself using DosBox. The default folder will be C:\HEXENDK but you can change this to whatever you want.

4) Outside of DosBox, go to and download dkpatch.zip from one of the given links on the right side of the page.

5) Extract both PATCH.EXE and PATCH.RTP from dkpatch.zip into your newly created Hexen Deathkings directory.

If you used the default Deathkings location, you will now have C:\HEXENDK\PATCH.EXE and C:\HEXENDK\PATCH.RTP in this directory.

If you used another location, place these two files in the Deathkings install folder you previously designated.

6) Back in DosBox, go to the Hexen Deathkings directory the installer created, type the word "patch" without quotes or capital letters, and press enter.

7) The patcher will run and update HEXDD.WAD to version 1.1 and you will now be able to play Hexen's CD Music correctly within DosBox.

(Now would also be a good time to back up HEXDD.WAD if you have not already done so).

8) To mount Hexen's CUE file within DosBox for proper CD Music playback, switch to the Z: drive first, then use the first command for physical CDs or the second one for BIN/CUE files:

8a) mount d d:\ -t cdrom

OR

8b) imgmount d path\to\hexencuefile.cue -t iso

Note: Hexen's CD is a Mixed-Mode CD, so the CUE file must be mounted first BEFORE running Deathkings of the Dark Citadel.

Applying the Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel CD Music Patch - Alternative Method
Disclaimer: This is an unofficial way of patching HEXDD.WAD that does not require DosBox and can be run within Windows 7,8,10 etc.

The DosBox method uses the official patch released by Raven Software back in the 1990s.

1) Download Iwadpatcher 1.2 and extract its contents.

2) Open the iwadpatcher1.2-bin folder, hold down the shift key, and right click within the folder.

3) Select "Open command window here" in the right click menu that just appeared.

4) At the command prompt that appears, type the following command and press enter:

iwadpatcher -Oanynamehere.wad -VHEXDD_11 HEXDD.WAD

Note: Make sure that your unpatched HEXDD.WAD is present within this directory first or the file will not patch.

Note 2: Also, do not put any spaces between the -O and -V switches, since those are the instructions of the included readme.txt file.

5) After you have patched your original HEXDD.WAD, delete it and rename your new file created by the -O switch to HEXDD.WAD.

6) Place HEXDD.WAD in either your DosBox Deathkings installation or sourceport of choice.

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