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Re: Betrayal at Krondor--HELP!!!

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From: stb... Stéphane Brown
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 00:00
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On 27 Jun 1998 16:39:29 -0400, ba...@eden.rutgers.edu (Michael Bain)
wrote:

>nav...@nospamhotmail.com (navid) writes:
>
>>I need help in getting Betrayal at Krondor to run on my PC.  It's a PII 
>>300 with 64 MB RAM.  I got the game off the July/August 98 issue of PC 
>>Games.  How do I tweak my config.sys and autoexec.bat so I can play this 
>>game?  Any help greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Betrayal at Krondor was a 3D fantasy RPG circa 1994... I don't think you
>need to "tweak" your config.sys / autoexec.bat for any gameplay benefits...
>
>The only thing I can imagine is that you need to free up some conventional
>memory and possibly enable "enhanced" memory in emm386.
>
>BaK is not going to be happy running under win95 so you need to run in 
>DOS mode and you need to free up 600K of conventional memory.
>
>Good Luck.
>
>Michael

I'm still playing BaK in Win 95 without any need to go to DOS mode.

Simply make a shortcut to krondor.exe and allocate 585 conventional
memory and 2048 expanded memory.  Everything else on auto.

Works fine on my P133.

Stef
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Subject: Re: Betrayal at Krondor--HELP!!!
Date: 1998/07/02
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