WC III

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#191

Author: bar...
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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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

Re: WC III

#192

Author: skre... Andrew Paul
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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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

Don't use QEMM!!!!  No expanded memory manager is needed nor wanted by
WC3

Re: WC III

#193

Author: Thomas Russell Hong
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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