Thanks for the info. It was actually just the "TipsFile" key that was missing. I don't use launchpad, but this fixes it. Cheers, ajs.

Uhh, read my posts through again and you will appreciate that it is not EVERY installation of XP that has this problem.. To answer your question, the service pack has absolutely nothing to do with it. A completely virgin installation of XP on *certain hardware configurations* causes EMS to not work. …

Yep. I always thought it was driver related, actually. That is, a certain driver is conflicting with Windows XP's EMS subsystem. Whatever the cause, the dualbooting laptop would seem to suggest that it is indeed restricted to Windows XP. I've just installed Windows 2003 on the laptop, tri booting. / …

Yeah. I'm already running update 2. I think I found a workaround. This is a totally separate and OT problem, but have you guys had any reported issues of EMS not working *at all* (not just in conjunction with VDMS, but generally) on certain hardware with Windows XP? You see, I've got a few machines …

Hi, First, let me thank you for such a wonderful program -- VDMSound allows me to play the old DOS GCS called "MegaZeux" without issue, and I'm enormously pleased that you are still working on it. However, I recently upgraded my Windows 2000 installation to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and …