It sounds like you are loading a real mode driver into conventional memory, but we need more information. Please provide us with some information about your system. You did mention MS-DOS, is that the only operating system or are you using that under Win 95, 98, etc.? What is your processor speed, ram and HD.

mole

 

The OS is Win 98 128 ram and 400mh speed. I am trying to play an old ms-dos game. When I load the game under the dos prompt in windows I get the message that I should use ram instead of noems. When I load under dos no windows I get not enough memory. The games 570k and I have 560.

 

Try editing your config.sys file. Then try to run the game from the Windows DOS prompt

Start>Find>Files, key in config.sys and press enter. Right click on it and select "Open With". Now scroll down and select Notepad. Be sure to not select "Always use this program to open.." and click on OK.

Now place an ; and a blank in front of each line in your config.sys file. For example,

; device=c:\windows\himem.sys
; device=c:\emm386.sys noems

Now add these lines

device=c:\windows\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems
dos=high,umb

Now click on File>save. Restart Windows and try the game.

[This message has been edited by bhesson (edited 10-27-2000).]

 

If it is indicating to use ram instead of noems then the game could be wanting expanded memory.

If bhesson's suggestion doesn't work, try adding the following to config.sys.

device=c:\windows\himem.sys
device=c:\emm386.sys auto

This will allow access to expanded memory and the UMB area, only when program requests it.

 

edit your msdos.sys so it doesn't load compression drivers
this will save you conventional memory

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