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[Eagle of Fire]

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).

[gregor]

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.