Hmm weird i had no problems playing it on my p1 200mmx Cpu. As Captain Barbossa would say: "it's more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules" :-D This is precisely the situation with these old games. Sometimes, a specific hardware combination (even though faster) can give better results for …

Yeah CD is in and it is the first CD drive. I guess maybe it is fast CPU problem it being Pii 300mhz like leileilol suggested?

Trying to run the game on PII 300mhz, Soundblaster 5.1Live and running it via Win98SE. I have CDrom version of the game, monster.sou filesize is 142MB. I tried every configuration for SB ports, and no luck. Music plays just fine though.

It's realtively easy to get 620kb free conventional memory in DOS with mouse, sound and CD drivers installed just by loading most drivers into the UMB. There is a file here on Vogons that I uploaded 10 years ago from some warez scene guy (a german - excuse his english) that pretty much explains …

I got the book, I will be reading up MSDOS basics, memory and drivers shenanigans, etc. Thanks for suggestion! I recommend picking up the book Running MS-DOS which among other things explains DOS memory configuration. I'm more of a KISS person rather than configuring such menus. Looks like you're in …

I am big dos newb, sorry in advance if I seem dense. I have windows98SE machine (PII with 262MB of RAM) and I am trying to play some DOS games, at the moment Dune II and Prehistorik 2. I am running into classic not enough memory problem when I try start games after rebooting into DOS. So i followed …