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Overlay has overrun allocated memory - Error when running Hyperspeed

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First post, by DoubleEndedFist

Posted on 2007-04-01, 15:10

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Hi,

I'm having trouble launching Hyperspeed under Dosbox 0.70. I get the following error when executing speed.exe "overlay has overrun allocated memory"...preceeding the error message there is character which looks like a candy cane or an upside down and backwards "j".

I have tried altering the the overlay setting in the conf file and running the executable with every overlay setting available...same error message..

I have tried setting both xms and ems to false and combinations of true and false with different overlay settings but have come to no resolution.

Can someone please help? I have searched your forum and have found posts relating to Hyperspeed however these posts refer to errors after the game launches and do not relate to the issue I'm dealing with.

Reply 1 of 11, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-04-01, 16:03

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Hmm, try inscreasing the memsize value in dosbox.conf to 32

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Reply 2 of 11, by DoubleEndedFist

Posted on 2007-04-01, 16:43

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Thank you for the reply.
I have tried increasing the memsize to both 32 and 64 with no effect.

Reply 3 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2007-04-01, 19:59

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Maybe try loadfix, and disable all sound options of the game.

Reply 4 of 11, by DoubleEndedFist

Posted on 2007-04-02, 02:18

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Hi,
Thanks for replying. I have tried the loadfix option however it still doesn't run. The only difference is that this time the candy cane symbol I describe in my first post changes to a %....don't know what this means...

As for sound options these are set when the game launches but as it doesn't I'm not able to actually disable anything. I have however been able to set nosound=true option in the DosBox conf file but this has rendered no results..

Any other ideas?????

Reply 5 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2007-04-02, 06:58

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nosound=true is useless (read the comment next to this option),
but try sbtype=none (same for gus, midi maybe)

Reply 6 of 11, by DoubleEndedFist

Posted on 2007-04-02, 11:58

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I have tried the setting sbtype to none and this has done nothing...I don't think it's a sound option because when you launch the game you have to first set graphics and sound options before the acutal game engine executes.

Reply 7 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2007-04-02, 12:16

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Well then try univbe 😀

Reply 8 of 11, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-04-02, 12:39

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What happens when you try running this game under Windows?

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Reply 9 of 11, by DoubleEndedFist

Posted on 2007-04-02, 23:52

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When I run this under windows I get the same error message.

Reply 10 of 11, by Cletis

Posted on 2007-08-12, 16:58

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I am having this exact same problem. Did anyone ever figure it out?

I've tried Hyperspeed under Windows XP, when booting from a dos boot disk and under DosBOX v0.71 with all of the options mentioned in this thread. All of them give me the same results (which the op described).

I am new to this stuff, so it's possible I'm making a common mistake. Any ideas?

Reply 11 of 11, by Joe Cool

Posted on 2021-02-13, 14:03

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Maybe a bit late to the party but: This happens when you don't install the game and try to run the compressed files.

The manual is wrong: copying all disks to the hard drive does not install the game.
The installer also has a bug and does not detect larger hard drives. It works fine on my DOS PC with a 250 MB C: partition.

If the hard disk isn't detected only floppy-to-floppy install questions are asked.

The GOG release seems different. It's cracked, missing BLEAK5.PIC, and only has the VGA files.

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