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DOS 7.1 freezes when exiting Quake

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First post, by gamingretro

Posted on 2024-06-09, 21:28

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Hi folks, so Quake runs great on my new P3 build running win98. In restart to DOS mode, though, the computer freezes upon exiting the game -- I get the usual Quake exit screen but no dos command prompt. Hitting enter or escape does nothing. Anyone know of a fix? I've got a sb16 and GeForce 2 mx that work fine. Thanks!

Reply 1 of 4, by dominusprog

Posted on 2024-06-10, 11:03

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Have you tried to change the RAM configurations in BIOS?

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Reply 2 of 4, by sledge

Posted on 2024-06-10, 11:14

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Interesting! I've encountered the same problem when running Quake on rather unusual hardware (Vortex86DX board), so I thought it must be some weird incompatibility, but it seems the problem lies somewhere else. Anyway - try it without emm386, worked in my case.

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Reply 3 of 4, by gamingretro

Posted on 2024-06-11, 00:08

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sledge wrote on 2024-06-10, 11:14:

Interesting! I've encountered the same problem when running Quake on rather unusual hardware (Vortex86DX board), so I just thought it must be some weird incompatibility, but it seems the problem lies somewhere else. Anyway - try it without emm386, worked in my case.

Correct, removing emm386 fixed the freezing issue! But now unfortunately I don't have enough conventional memory (519k) to run some dos games. Any ideas for increasing that without emm386?

Reply 4 of 4, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2024-06-11, 01:37

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gamingretro wrote on 2024-06-11, 00:08:

sledge wrote on 2024-06-10, 11:14:

Interesting! I've encountered the same problem when running Quake on rather unusual hardware (Vortex86DX board), so I just thought it must be some weird incompatibility, but it seems the problem lies somewhere else. Anyway - try it without emm386, worked in my case.

Correct, removing emm386 fixed the freezing issue! But now unfortunately I don't have enough conventional memory (519k) to run some dos games. Any ideas for increasing that without emm386?

With UMBPCI, a real mode driver that generates UMB from memory intended as shadow RAM. It depends on the motherboard chipset as it affects cacheability and ISA DMA in the UMB area.

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