Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc
Article #71095Re: Boot disk problem!!!
From: Robert S. Paul
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:00
41 lines
2400 bytes
2400 bytes
Your system may be too new. I know that sounds whacky, but it happens. navid wrote: > I am having problems running Betrayal at Krondor on my computer. Pentium > II 300, 64 MB RAM, and STB Velocity 128. OS is Win 95. I have tried the > "make boot disk" option in install.exe but all I get is a stupid error > message stating "This game requires 1482 K of extended memory and your > machine does not have enough." I would also like to free up as much > conventional and expanded memory as possible as I get a message stating > "You do not have enough memory to run Betrayal at Krondor. Try using the > Make Boot Disk option from INSTALL."--YEAH RIGHT!!! I ran mem and here > are the results: > 589,392 bytes free of conventional memory > 0 free of upper > 0 free for reserved > 65,826,816 free Extended (XMS)--Why the hell does it say I don't have > enough extended memory?! > I also have a bunch of modules using up memory below 1 MB: > MSDOS is taking up 33K > vmm32 is taking up 11K > emm386 is taking 10K > These are by far the 3 greatest offenders. My free expanded (EMS) is 16M > out of a total 63M. > I will provide my config.sys and autoexec.bat once I get an e-mail. > Please e-mail me and help a fellow novice gamer out. I hate DOS games > and try to avoid them like the plague, but this game is a classic and > must be played no matter what. > Thank you very much. > -- > Navid > nav...@nospamrocketmail.com > (kindly remove the "nospam") -- Robert S. Paul ( http://www.deathsdoor.com/v_frankenstein ) Lord of Dark Insanity ------------------------------------------------------------ "...the..." A lot of things, dumbass!
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<35AAFFD5.29DE7E16@DeathsDoor.com>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<MPG.1014c81e15f2e63698968b@news.okeechobee.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
From: "Robert S. Paul" <V_Frank...@DeathsDoor.com> Subject: Re: Boot disk problem!!! Date: 1998/07/13 Message-ID: <35AAFFD5.29DE7E16@DeathsDoor.com> X-Deja-AN: 371258997 References: <MPG.1014c81e15f2e63698968b@news.okeechobee.com> X-Trace: news6.ispnews.com 900399341 12686 207.137.59.187 (14 Jul 1998 06:55:41 GMT) Organization: RSPsycho Software! Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jul 1998 06:55:41 GMT Newsgroups: alt.games.classic-crpgs,alt.games.rpg,alt.games.sierra,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,de.rec.games.computer,rec.games.computer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit