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Re: Boot disk problem!!!

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From: Robert S. Paul
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:00
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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")



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From: "Robert S. Paul" <V_Frank...@DeathsDoor.com>
Subject: Re: Boot disk problem!!!
Date: 1998/07/13
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