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First post, by Elia1995

Posted on 2016-06-14, 10:13

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Hello, I'm having this weird issue with Quake and any other 3D game/program in my Intel Celeron DOS PC.
Basically the game starts just fine in the first hardisk, then I added a second hardisk to the PC and I installed Dr. Dos 7.03 on it aswell, but the game doesn't start.
It gives some weird EMM386 errors or sometimes it says "The program is too big to be loaded in memory", BUT it works fine on the other hardisk !!!
On the other hardisk it starts and is very smooth, but the keyboard doesn't work (similarly to the bug I had in Rayman), but I'm more concerned on that memory issue first.

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Reply 1 of 5, by dr_st

Posted on 2016-06-14, 12:37

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You know, friend, you've been here for less than two months, and by all the threads you've started, it looks like you've managed to encounter more weird problems than the average Vogons user here encounters in years. 😐

It often feels to me like you are trying to complicate things too much. Simplify, man! 🤣

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Reply 2 of 5, by Elia1995

Posted on 2016-06-14, 12:51

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Yeah, but what can I do when I get a problem after another since I began to get these PCs back to life ?
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Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

Reply 3 of 5, by Elia1995

Posted on 2016-06-15, 08:35

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Ok, I have no idea what to say... it fixed by itself.

Yeah, I did absolutely NOTHING, in the late afternoon yesterday I tried again launching the game from Windows 95 and it began to work under DOS aswell on that secondary hardisk.

I have NO IDEA on what happened, for real...

Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

Reply 4 of 5, by bjt

Posted on 2016-06-15, 08:40

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Smells like a RAM/CPU/data corruption issue to me. These are difficult to track down.

Reply 5 of 5, by Elia1995

Posted on 2016-06-15, 08:44

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Well, for future reference: I deleted the previous copy of Quake from the hardisk, I then copied it again from the CD under Windows 95 and since then both Quake and 3DBench started to work on their own without doing further stuff.

Except Quake's sound farting a bit (it doesn't happen from the other hardisk, although on the other hardisk now Quake starts but then the keyboard stops working), it works flawless without any lag.

Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11

Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard

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