[Fixed] Crusader: No Remorse, Fatal error 286.3330

[Fixed] Crusader: No Remorse, Fatal error 286.3330 - Pure DOS

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First post, by tiben

Posted on 2017-02-07, 19:39

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Hi,

I'm trying to play to the game Crusader: No Remorse but when i launch it, it crashes immediatly with the following error:

1Fatal error 286.3330: General protection fault detected.
2PID=0001  TID=0001  SID=0001  ERRORCODE=0000
3AX=0000  BX=0000  CX=0E67  DX=06CF  SI=0200  DI=0001  BP=1FB8
4CS:IP=040F:0FD9   DS=05F7  ES=0000  SS:SP=05FF:1FB0   FLAGS=3293

This error seems pretty common for this game when asking to google but i have not found any pointers nor tips to fix it.

My system is an MSI K8T Neo2, Athlon 64 3000+, 1G ram, Geforce 7300GT AGP, SBPCI128.

I run MS-DOS 7.1 (bundled with win98).

As this error seems to be memory related, i give you my dos configuration:

Here is my config.sys

1[menu]
2MENUITEM=dos,MS-DOS 7.1
3MENUITEM=win,Windows 98
4MENUDEFAULT=win,10 
5MENUCOLOR=7,0
6
7[common]
8DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
9DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM /MIN=0 I=B000-B7FF /V
10Country=033,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys
11
12[dos]
13DOS=HIGH,UMB
14DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOSDRV\XCDROM.SYS /D:ASUS /SM
15
16[win]
17device=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
18

My autoexec.bat:

1SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6
2SET SBPCI=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\AUDIO\DOSDRV
3mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
4mode con codepage select=850
5keyb fr,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
6
7GOTO %CONFIG%
8
9:dos
10
11LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /d:ASUS
12LH C:\DOSDRV\MOUSE.COM /r2
13LH %SBPCI%\SBLOAD
14LH %SBPCI%\SBINIT
15
16GOTO end
17
18:win
19
20win
21
22:end
23

And the output of "mem" command (sorry it is in french):

1Type de mémoire     Totale   Utilisée      Libre
2----------------  --------   --------   --------
3Conventionnelle       638K        25K       614K
4Supérieure             58K        51K         8K
5Réservée                0K         0K         0K
6Mémoire étendue   1 046 40     3 553K   1 042 85
7----------------  --------   --------   --------
8Mémoire totale    1 047 10     3 628K   1 043 47
9
10Total inférieur       696K        75K       621K
11
12Totale Paginée (EMS)                          32M (33 947 648 octets)  
13Mémoire libre paginée (EMS)*                  32M (33 554 432 octets)  
14
15* EMM386 utilise la mémoire XMS pour simuler la mémoire EMS désirée.
16  La mémoire EMS peut changer en même temps que la mémoire XMS.
17
18Taille maximale du programme exécutable      613K (628 096 octets) 
19Taille max. de la mémoire supérieure libre     4K  (4 384 octets)  
20MS-DOS réside en mémoire haute (HMA).
21

Thanks!

Last edited by tiben on 2017-02-07, 22:45. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 19, by clueless1

Posted on 2017-02-07, 19:49

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Try slowing your system down. Do you have a way to disable cache on your Athlon 64?

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Reply 2 of 19, by tiben

Posted on 2017-02-07, 19:52

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I tried with "Setmul" without luck. On my system i can only disable L1 cache but it has great effect.

Reply 3 of 19, by Dominus

Posted on 2017-02-07, 20:20

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I *think* it's one of the games that goes bad with too much RAM.Can you make a ramdisk and eat up all except 63MB of your RAM?

Edit: and I state it differently at About Crusader No Regret/Remorse - no problem with too much RAM 😀 (but the other guy mentions 256 MB Limit)
You could try the other hints I gave in there...

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Reply 4 of 19, by tiben

Posted on 2017-02-07, 20:52

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all right... is there any good non "ms" "ramdisk" tool freely available ?

Reply 5 of 19, by Dominus

Posted on 2017-02-07, 20:53

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First thing I'd try is whether you can freedos' ramdisk tool, "tdsk" is the first search hit.

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Reply 6 of 19, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-02-07, 21:09

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xmsdisk is also popular. Or, instead of himem.sys, you can use himemx.sys, a free open-source replacement that lets you set the maximum amount of RAM.

Reply 7 of 19, by tiben

Posted on 2017-02-07, 21:37

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YEAH!!! Thank you very much @Dominus and @Jorpho!!

It works using himemx.exe with \MAX=12800

Reply 8 of 19, by Dominus

Posted on 2017-02-07, 21:42

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I'll be damned! It has a max RAM after all 😉
(There is also a patch for Crusader that might have helped, too)
Great that it works now!

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Reply 9 of 19, by tiben

Posted on 2017-02-07, 22:44

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Seems it shares this flaw with "Ultima 8"!

Reply 10 of 19, by Dominus

Posted on 2017-02-07, 23:51

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Yeah, it's the same game engine.

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Reply 11 of 19, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-02-08, 01:48

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I thought it used the Underworld engine. Are the U8 and UU engine related?

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Reply 12 of 19, by clueless1

Posted on 2017-02-08, 02:58

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gdjacobs wrote:
I thought it used the Underworld engine. Are the U8 and UU engine related?

Nope. U8 is isometric while UU is 1st person.

Reply 13 of 19, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-02-08, 08:28

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Well, there we go. I learned my retro fact for the day!

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Reply 14 of 19, by tiben

Posted on 2017-02-08, 19:28

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I'll be damned! It has a max RAM after all

Please note that maybe it is fixed simply because i replaced himem.sys with himemx.sys, whatever the value of \MAX value. I can do some checks if you or someone else wants to know!

Reply 15 of 19, by swaaye

Posted on 2017-02-12, 21:08

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On the topic of this game, I had to switch to the Logitech mouse driver because the Microsoft mouse driver caused a helicopter like noise from the audio. That was on a 440BX machine.

Reply 16 of 19, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2017-02-13, 02:33

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For what it's worth, HIMEMX is great. Features like mem limiting and the reduced resident footprint are fantastic.I haven't found a compatibility issue yet, although other's experiences might be different.

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Reply 17 of 19, by Malik

Posted on 2017-02-13, 13:25

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I know this topic is now solved, and I just read it.

Just as a side note, I had an occasion where there was 192MB RAM installed in my P2 machine, and Crusader No Regret wouldn't boot, even though, HIMEM.SYS cannot see anything above 64MB RAM. After some trial and error, I managed to run it by running RAMDRIVE and make it eat 32MB of the RAM. (I wasn't using any modern HIMEM iteration back then.)

And on another occasion, I think with another P2 motherboard, in spite of having 256MB RAM, the game ran flawlessly without any RAM modifications.

If I'm not mistaken, the first board was DFI P2XBL and the second was on my AOpen AX6B.

Just a heads up.

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Reply 18 of 19, by Dominus

Posted on 2017-02-13, 13:47

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Thanks, good to know and additional information might help the next person with these problems. Odd that it was different for the mobos ...

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Reply 19 of 19, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-02-13, 17:13

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Malik wrote:
even though, HIMEM.SYS cannot see anything above 64MB RAM.

That particular limitation applies to the MS-DOS 6.22 version of HIMEM.SYS.
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/159631-testin … dos-limitations

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