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Article #193Re: WC III
From: Thomas Russell Hong
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
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On 3 Jan 1996 bar...@bga.com wrote: > Using QEMM version 8.0 on 486 system with 8 M of RAM. > Attempting to load WC III to no avail. Went to CD ROM Drive and typed WC3, installed everything, ran tests, everything cool > then chose Save and Load game. Six dots appear on screen and NOTHING. Have over 7000K of RAM available and still > doesn't work. Whats up? I am trying on another sytem now and having difficulty. Any tricks not in the dox? > > Thanks, > Barton A few things: WC3 *hates* expanded memory managers and will crash almost every time if it is in your bootup config. This includes QEMM and EMM386.EXE. WC3 does *not* need a lot of conventional mem to run-- A measly 390K. It does need a lot of XMS to run-- 7000K is minimum, but anything above that is optimum. TRH Sends ________________________________________________________________ Thomas Russell Hong Columbia University in the City of New York Department of Biological Sciences email: th...@columbia.edu The W3 USNF Graphical Landing Tutorial on my WWW homepage: http://www.columbia.edu/~th34
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