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Re: Doom Lockup, not just DLC's.

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From: rrw... Richard Ward
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 09:58
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In article <saladCJ...@netcom.com> sa...@netcom.com (Alan S. Narup) writes:
>
>Basically did all the usuall. Got the system down to a bare-bones situation,
>even removed the sound card. Still random "pseudo lock-ups".
>Pretty weird.
>I've tried running it with and without himem.sys, same thing. I've tailored
>config.sys down to just files=30, buffers=30, same problem.
>The only thing autoexec.bat is loading is the mouse driver, thought about
>changing that to a different version.
>I've had problems with that DOS extender before. Lucas Art's Rebel Assualt
>uses it, and they sent out a newer version than ID has given us. 
>Hmmmm, guess I'm screwed for now. 
>-Alan
>sa...@netcom.com

Have you tried using the ALTDOOM.ZIP patches?  It replaces the version of the 
DOS extender, I think there are three or so different extender verions with it 
(providing you are using DOOM ver 1.1).


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Subject: Re: Doom Lockup, not just DLC's.
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