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First post, by Pingaloka

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Hello guys, I'm trying to install this game in Windows 3.1 and it is giving me quite a hard time....
There are two programs necessary to run this game...one of them being WinG, or wingset...the other one is
VFW. Both of these programs give me the following error when trying to install them:

"insufficient memory or disk space"

Running MEM /C /P I get 612k free conventional memory.
On windows I've got 65,488kb permanent memory.

Config.sys

DEVICE=c:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
BUFFERS=15,0
FILES=40
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
DOS=HIGH

DEVICEHIGH C:\UIDE\UIDE.SYS /S15 /D:IMESCD01
COUNTRY=034,,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS

STACKS=9,256

Autoexec.bat

SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
rem C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
rem C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
SET PATH=C:\ULTRASND;C:\WINDOWS;C:\MSIE50;C:\DOS
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
C:\DOS\MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((850) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)
C:\DOS\MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=850
LH /L:1,17312 C:\DOS\KEYB SP,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS
LH /L:0;2,4096 /S C:\VESA\VESA\S3VBE20 /INSTALL
LH /L:0;2,6352 /S C:\SHC\SHCDX33F /D:IMESCD01
LH /L:0;1,3328 /S C:\CMOUSE\CTMOUSE.EXE
LH C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /L

Any ideas guys?

Reply 2 of 6, by Dominus

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Slim down both autoexec.bat and config.sys to bare minimum (e.g. Don't load cd drivers...), lastdrive not z but something smaller and try again. Also, do you have enough hd space?

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Reply 3 of 6, by Pingaloka

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I need to load cd-rom as Civ2 reads from it. I do have enough space, around 1gb...I'm going to try nevertheless to slim down autoexec.bat + config.sys with minimum...

Reply 4 of 6, by Dominus

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If the culprit are the helper programs you can copy those first from cd, reboot without cd, install and reenable cd...
Maybe 1gb is TOO MUCH for those installers...

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 6 of 6, by DonutKing

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I've installed Civ 2 on Win 3.1 without issues. But that was a 486 with 8MB RAM, and a 1GB HDD. What are your system specs?

I suspect if you have a huge amount of RAM or hard disk space that the installers are checking for free space, it's returning a bigger number than the installer can comprehend and it 'wraps around' and thinks you have dramatically less space available than you really have.

If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.