If it ain't broken, don't fix it...

Nope. You are better using DOSBox for ms-dos games.

changing the messages which are displayed at startup should not help a bit.
The resident part is seperated from the startup part.

Optimizing a driver might be possible, but it's a lot of work. (Or the application must have some bug that is causing the huge memory usage).
In general I would say that you are out of luck.

I have no programming experience so I figured I'd ask.
I figured it'd be a lot of work.

I have been building computers since 1995 and still haven't had time to figure out DOSBox.
DOS drivers and hardware I do understand though. Sort of.

What seems to be happening is the driver bloats while being loaded and just will NOT loadhigh.
I've tried lots of different load orders etc and even though there should be space it won't go.
I'll try to post the MEM output...

DOSBox is a lot easier than you think. Just read the guides on the forum.

That's what they said about undertsanding women!
BAH! 😁

DOSBox is more rewarding than most women. 😁

Depends on if you have most women in the room with you with DOSBox.