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20-03-2006 08:16 PM

gregor

Quote:

Originally posted by Sabina@Mar 20 2006, 06:23 PM
I read it once alredy, just read it again, to be sure, and no, I don't understand it. Remember i'm a rookie here?! I'm just scared i'll do something wrong and f*** my whole system up...

well that is why i propose to make a boot floppy disk. you can then change any paramater on floppy disk and you can't mess anything up. if you do you just take out the floppy and reset the computer.

here is my autoexec on abandonia boot disk:

@ECHO OFF
path=c:\windows\command

LH /L:1 MOUSE.COM
rem c:\mouse\mouse.exe

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2
SET SNDSCAPE=C:\WINDOWS
SET CTSYN=C:\sbpci
c:\sbpci\apinit

c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe /D:TEAC-CDI /M:15

prompt $p$g

i coloured the lines. here blue defines mouse, red defines sounblaster parameters, and green defines my CD drive.

this is my config.sys

NUMLOCK=ON
BREAK=ON

DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO
FILESHIGH=40
FCBSHIGH=1,0
BUFFERSHIGH=30,0

rem LASTDRIVEHIGH=J
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=C:\TEAC\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:TEAC-CDI
STACKSHIGH=9,256

DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS /V
DEVICE=A:\EMM386.EXE RAM /MIN=0 I=B000-B7FF /V

SHELL=A:\COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:1024 /P

here lines in blue define that your memory is transfered to upper memory to free the conventioanl memory. conventional memmory is 640kB, upper memmory is memmory between 640kB and 1MB RAM.
the red line defines type of memmory used. first line is XMS memmory and second one is EMS memmory. if i write rem in fron of the second line the computer will "jump" over it and EMS wont get installed. sometimes this is needed to free more conventional memmory.

edit these configs give me 541kB free ram. if i remove teac cd drivers (for trunning the cd) by typing rem in front of them the number drastically increases.

20-03-2006 07:45 PM

Eagle of Fire

Quote:

2.2 BASE MEMORY
Also called "DOS-Memory", meaning the first 640 KB of the RAM. DOS runs in this part. Because of this division it can happen that although you have 128 MB on the whole, a game reports too less memory. The problem is that all memory resident drivers are also put here. That is why no one has ever the whole 640 KB ready for use.

My best bet is that you have too many resident programs loaded in memory when you try to play this game. What I would do if I were you would be to put "rem" commands in front of the lines you think you should disable. This "rem" command don't delete the line but make the startup overlook it and pass to the next line.

Since you don't really know what you should do, I suggest you copy and paste your whole config.sys file in your next post and I will point to you what to do (you can open that file with notepad like a normal .txt file).

20-03-2006 05:23 PM

Sabina

Quote:

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Mar 20 2006, 02:54 PM
If you follow the directives in this quoted guide at the end of the post, you'll be able to configure your memory for gaming.

I read it once alredy, just read it again, to be sure, and no, I don't understand it. Remember i'm a rookie here?! I'm just scared i'll do something wrong and f*** my whole system up...

20-03-2006 05:14 PM

Sabina

Quote:

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Mar 20 2006, 02:54 PM
Make sure you are talking about conventionnal memory. There is 3 kind of memory in DOS, and the game should tell you which kind it's lacking. There is conventional memory, EMS memory and XMS memory.

It says "free base memory"?

20-03-2006 01:54 PM

Eagle of Fire

If you follow the directives in this quoted guide at the end of the post, you'll be able to configure your memory for gaming.

Make sure you are talking about conventionnal memory. There is 3 kind of memory in DOS, and the game should tell you which kind it's lacking. There is conventional memory, EMS memory and XMS memory.

20-03-2006 12:14 PM

Bobbin Threadbare

Your rnning it from startup?

Make a bootdisk. It's real easy with this thingo:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/modboot/

20-03-2006 11:00 AM

gregor

if you went in menu Start->shutdown->restart in dos
then your available memmory will be lower, because windows left some parts in it. for example you can then type exit and it will return you to windows.

otherwise if you went through the F8 menu then you should get more memmory. btw have you tried with abandonia boot disk avilable on the site? it can clear up a lot of memmory and make the games run. especially if you use the mouse driver (also found on the site). that one takes up only a fraction fo memory. so oyu might even have over 600k free memmory available.
well later when i get home i can try and see what happens because i have Win98 too.

20-03-2006 10:36 AM

Sabina

Quote:

Originally posted by gregor@Mar 20 2006, 08:40 AM
what does it say when you type: mem

it should give you memory and description of various types of it.

maybe you need EMM386 to run the game or config. also sometimes part of basic memory can be moved to upper level so you free more of the basic mamory.

edit:

there are two types of memory in DOS.

EMS and XMS. some games require EMS to run, while others use XMS. i dont' know about this game i never tried it. i somehow missed it. :blink:
too bad i dont' have time for games lately, otherwise i would give a solution to your problem. still i could give you my settings of autoexec.bat and config.sys which might help you. maybe later in the evening if i remember....

When i type mem from the dosprompt, it says that i have 573k free base memory and that the max size of a programme it can execute is 572k.
BUT, and this is a bit odd, when i restart my computer in ms-dos and type mem it says i have 515k. Shouldnt i have MORE memory available when windows is shut down? :eeeeeh:

20-03-2006 07:40 AM

gregor

what does it say when you type: mem

it should give you memory and description of various types of it.

maybe you need EMM386 to run the game or config. also sometimes part of basic memory can be moved to upper level so you free more of the basic mamory.

edit:

there are two types of memory in DOS.

EMS and XMS. some games require EMS to run, while others use XMS. i dont' know about this game i never tried it. i somehow missed it. :blink:
too bad i dont' have time for games lately, otherwise i would give a solution to your problem. still i could give you my settings of autoexec.bat and config.sys which might help you. maybe later in the evening if i remember....

20-03-2006 06:44 AM

Sabina

Quote:

Originally posted by _r.u.s.s.@Mar 20 2006, 07:26 AM

Quote:

cd ..

Alright, great! So far so good, i've finally launched the game from dos. But i still have the same problem. It says i need 490k of free base memory to run Uvconfig.
But I have 572k, so whats the problem? any ideas? And no I'm not running other programmes that could take up the memory...

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