The Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall: How to Configure Daggerfall Unity (Steam Version)

A simple guide to swapping out the Steam version of Daggerfall for the superior Daggerfall Unity

Introduction

Want to replace the vanilla 1.0 Daggerfall experience from Steam with the objectively better Unity port? Of course you do! Here’s how.

The original steps to set this up were found courtesy of user Isais1239 on Reddit, so all credit should go towards them. I’m merely putting it here for ease of anyone else that might not have found it!

Important Links

Daggerfall Unity Home Page[www.dfworkshop.net]
Installing Daggerfall Unity and Other Information[forums.dfworkshop.net] – Official steps on installing DF Unity for newcomers, including up to date data files for Daggerfall
UESP Downloads[en.uesp.net] – An alternate set of up to date Daggerfall files if the previous link goes down
Releases on Github[github.com] – Current releases of DF Unity
Nexus Mods[www.nexusmods.com] – For when you want to get adventurous!

The Process

Install Daggerfall through Steam. You can put the files anywhere you choose, but we want Steam to consider it installed.
Download a separate, updated version of the Daggerfall data files. Interkarma provides a Google Drive link in his setup guide that is ideal, but you can use other versions such as the ones from UESP or GOG if you prefer.
Download the current release of Daggerfall Unity through the Github link above. As of writing this is 0.13.5 Beta but the process is unlikely to change for later versions.
In the Steam Daggerfall folder, rename the folder “DOSBox-0.74” to something else. I personally put a “-backup” on the end of it, but whatever floats your boat.
Create another folder named “DOSBox-0.74” and extract the files for DF Unity into it.
In the new “DOSBox-0.74” folder, rename “DaggerfallUnity.exe” to “DOSbox.exe”.
In the same folder, rename the subfolder “DaggerfallUnity_Data” to “DOSBox_data”. It should look like the below when complete.
Extract the second copy of Daggerfall that you downloaded to “The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall\DF\DAGGER”. If this is the version provided by Interkarma, it should just be data for the “ARENA2” directory. Overwrite all of the contents.
Run the Unity executable that we renamed to “DOSbox.exe” and use the interface to select the folder with the Daggerfall game files, likely “\The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall\DF\DAGGER”. The window will turn green if it recognizes it as valid. Press OK and then exit.