After device=c:\windows\himem.sys, put dos=high,umb. Without dos=umb somewhere after you've loaded himem.sys, you don't get upper memory blocks. You only need emm386 if you need ems or xms memory. My experience has tended to be that a game either needs lots of conventional memory, or it has …

As for some Games not Working in a Win98 DOS prompt window the main one Is XCOM and another is Dragon Lore. Perhaps you could say what happens instead just "it's not working"? You may also consider OpenXCom, which fixes a lot of bugs. https://openxcom.org/ This method did work. It shows all of my …

There is a method, but please don't take umbrage at me saying that if you're a newbie with this kind of stuff, then it's not something you should be doing. It involves modifying Windows' system files, and one wrong move could very well make your system unbootable. For some reason, after I went …

I am running Windows98 and I was trying to run some games from DOS mode (via the start menu -> shit down -> reboot into DOS mode) and one says it needs more conventional memory. So, I tried to do some memory management and from some of the places I was reading, you can force programs to run in upper …

That's good. And mscdex.exe is showing no errors either? Use the f8 method to boot into the Command Prompt only. This way your pc goes straight into DOS and you do not have interference from the Windows driver setup. If you go this route, you will also have to load your mouse and Sound card through …

Just before the windows splash screen comes up, press f8 repeatedly until a menu comes up. Select the step by step boot option. You can now see if the driver is being loaded correctly. There might be error messages.. for example that oak cd driver might not be the right one for your drive. When I …

Just before the windows splash screen comes up, press f8 repeatedly until a menu comes up. Select the step by step boot option. You can now see if the driver is being loaded correctly. There might be error messages.. for example that oak cd driver might not be the right one for your drive. When I …

Whenever I boot into DOS mode I get the basic "C:\WINDOWS>" Please be more precise about what you are doing when you "boot into DOS mode". Are you using the startup menu? some DOS games I have won't run under a DOS Prompt window in Windows You could be more precise about this as well. (You do …

I have a machine running Windows 98 and some DOS games I have won't run under a DOS Prompt window in Windows. However, as you know, DOS doesn't have built-in CD drive support. As far as I'm aware you're supposed to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to run the MSCDEX.EXE program. For some reason that …

dionb wrote on 2021-06-04, 22:59: Hang on, missed the PCI there. Then that's not the issue indeed 😮 No, I was mistaken, it actually is an AGP model. I'll take your advice. Thanks.

I came to seek advice from the 90s computer enthusiasts that reside here. A few months ago I cleaned up and started using a computer from the late 90s (for old Windows and DOS games). Recently, I tried to install a Voodoo 3 3000 from eBay so I could play games like Half-Life and Unreal. When I go to …