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Re: Ultima 7/7.5 tech help please!

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From: sbri... Stephen Thomas Brindle
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 20:14
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mir traumte, du warst mir noch gut (dro...@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:

: I have been having a recent problem with Ultima 7 and SI; when I attempt to
: save the game [and sometimes when I attempt to load it] it drops me to dos,
: saying that such-and-such a file cannot be found; the name of this file varies,
: and is always one that exists in the directory in which it is looking [which has
: always been gamedat, so far]].  I've tried reinstalling; I bought the CD just
: in case, same deal.  It seems generally to work ok if I turn off the sound, but
: I don't want to play without sound; I should have enough memory to use sound,
: since I'm booting utterly clean.  What's up?  This never used to happen with
: either of these games.

Try increasing the FILES= and BUFFERS= statements in your CONFIG.SYS 
(probably on your boot disk, or, if you're playing without on, in your 
root direcotry) to a higher number.
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Subject: Re: Ultima 7/7.5 tech help please!
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