Hello, my topic is pretty much describing itself, I am fiddling with that forever, and I can't make DOS to work with more then 640K of RAM. I have installed 8 megabytes! Why this piece of thing is not seeing at all, even when Windows 95 saw it?! Argh, it's driving me crazy, I can't run nothing, not even Wolfenstein 3D nor Commander Keen, my best games ever!
And what is driving me crazy even more is that 386 PC with 4Mb of RAM runs both without any problem for 20 years!
Could somebody please help me? I will put there everything what is needed.
Yeah, I know that, but no program can use it. Only drivers are loaded there, even with loadhigh it keeps to load everything in conventional memory.
Your configuration seems OK, if not more than that. There is no (memory) reason that, for example, Wolfenstein doesn't start. You have more than enough conventional mem for most, if not all, normal DOS games. I really don't know what's going on, but mem it's not your problem for what you're after.
What you're writing about "loadhigh it keeps to load everything in conventional memory" is not the case, many things are loaded in HM and you have plenty of conventional mem to run pretty much everything, especially those not so much demanding games you mentioned.
Virus is close to impossible, the OS was installed yesterday, what I only installed was DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, ČD screensaver, mouse, cd and soundcard drivers and M602 manager.
If I try to run Wolfenstein, it hangs on first "pc capability" screen with no info and text One moment... Forever. When I try to run it from Windows, it crashes immediately with famous STOP window or runs with the same results and have to be resetted.
I know it is messy, but I don't have idea how to sort it.
I just realised sound card was having some WSS I/O errors and SB checksum errors, had to changed values but I don't know what I did to make it to work. Maybe this could be somehow colliding with something. But I didn't find better driver (soundcard Yamaha OPL3-SAx with YMF719E-S sound chip).
I just realised sound card was having some WSS I/O errors and SB checksum errors, had to changed values but I don't know what I did to make it to work. Maybe this could be somehow colliding with something. But I didn't find better driver (soundcard Yamaha OPL3-SAx with YMF719E-S sound chip).
Try disabling the driver and running the games with no sound altogether.
Ok, this is SUPER weird. When I disabled the sound driver, Wolf started running. Even the sound came from speakers, but only some of them. Like picking up medkits and golds did, but guns and nazi shoutings didn't.
But now it's clear. There is the problem. So I can trash the only driver for that sound card that I found compatible with DOS/Win 3.11. Any ideas?
In cases like this, sometimes it's best to go back to the essentials. Take out anything unnecessary in the config.sys and autoexec.bat and see if things start running again. You should probably have DOS=HIGH,UMB right after HIMEM rather than on two separate lines, for instance, and I don't think you need the FCBS line at all. Also, try using just DEVICEHIGH= without the /L switches.
Snayperskaya wrote:
I had a similar problem with EMS. Switched to UMBPCI and all my memory problems vanished instantly. Reported it on this topic.