I've solved the problem. It was due to a windows update. I noticed that I had installed about 20 updates on january 20th and that seemed to coincide with the last time I had played some old dos games. I uninstalled all of those updates and now it works fine!! the only thing is GP2 runs way too fast.

OK, it seems that any DOS game from 1995 or later will not run at all in XP on my system. Using VDMS or not, they simply terminate immediately when I try to run them. This was not the case a few months ago. Another thing, games pre-1995 that were working fine before are now complaining about low …

Actually, I am running winXP. I have tried DOSbox and everthing runs properly except really slow 🙁

I haven't played many DOS games in a while but a few days ago I got the urge to play Grand Prix 2. It installed OK, except it said I had no extended memory. Then when I try to run the game it doesn't start up at all. Even if I use VDMS. I then tried a few other old DOS games that I know worked …