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I have windows xp. It says it sorks with xp on the website. when I click on darkland it says "unable to find EMS meomory". There is an install file too but when I tried that when I go to install it asks for the drive to install from i set it to the darklands directory, then were to install it i just put whatever in than it just stops at a screen that says pleas insert disk 1 in drive '*' then press enter. I tried just presing enter but nothing. any help?

[Lucullus]

Only one thing buddy... Dosbox... you see what it's trying to do is find EMS memory which was only available when you used DOS. But XP doesn't give any information of that out to programs anymore so you will have to use Dosbox or VDMSound to get it to work

[amazingfly]

well I have a amd 64 4000 and 2 gigs of memory. I set my dosbox cpu cycle to 20000 now it freezes when I try to battle. I did a quik start and went to the main gate and attacked them and it just freezes. any ideas?

[Eagle of Fire]

Cycles of 20000 is extremely high, you are sure you need that much? If you use too much DOSBox will overcycle and will eventually slow down instead of speed up. This sometimes also lead to strange problems.

Also, when using DOSBox your best bet is to use Soundblaster as sound setting, or AWE. DOSBox emulate a soundblaster card even if you don't actually have one in your computer.

[amazingfly]

yea I know its high I will mess with that some more. and I am using soundblaster.

[_r.u.s.s.]

well if you are disposed to play it without sound, try right clicking on exe file and setting ems memory

[amazingfly]

I tried that already it wont let me give it enough. at least I think. I set it all to max. and it says somthing like not enoughg conventional memory it needs like 677k and I have 568k wich seems odd cuz niether of those numbers were anywhere in the ems memory setting stuff. plus sound wokrs it just freezes when I go into combat. not to mention my L2 cache is bigger than what it says I have. I think i set the ems memory to 2 gigs but the conventional memory keeps going back to auto, that might be my problem

[Eagle of Fire]

Let's try something a little more serious.

Open your prefered .txt editing program (I use notepad), and open dosbox.conf in your DOSBox directory. Then search for this part:

[dos]
# xms -- Enable XMS support.
# ems -- Enable EMS support.

xms=true
ems=true

If ems=false, change it to ems=true. If it's already like that, try fiddling with the settings to see if it make a difference.

[_r.u.s.s.]

conventional memory has two options to set
i dont know how is it called in english so i will make a screenshot=]

^did you try to "play" with that second box which says "počátečí prostredí"?

[amazingfly]

Well both ems and xms were true i messed with it still nothing.
r.u.s.s I already did stuff with that but, it always just sets itself back to automatic.