Only in certain high res games eg build engine. If I have it running all the time it saves having to load it when necessary- makes the system easier to use. I've got the memory to burn now, so why not :D The EMM386 line I'd expect would work for the majority of people with a basic setup- sound, …

So yea my take is to use memaker which will sort everything out for you. You might get a bit more through tweaking, but there are no gains to be found (apart from the feeling of achievement Laughing Out Loud) I'm not so much doing it just for the sake of having as close to 640kb free conventional …

That mdgx.com site is a godsend! Particularly http://www.mdgx.com/mem6.htm I just copied the emm386.exe parameters they used to my config.sys and I was able to load Scitech display doctor high- even the later 6.53 version. These EMM386.EXE settings are probably the biggest help out of all the things …

Yes its definitely useful. It's not a must have but the whole point of this exercise is to see if I can 'have my cake and eat it too' so to speak... found some great links on that site Jorpho, like http://www.mdgx.com/mem6.htm http://www.robvanderwoude.com/dosmem.php is also interesting Will have to …

If I have problems I'll probably get rid of those two first but I find doskey incredibly useful and I do notice a performance increase when games are loading with Smartdrv running. I'd like to keep them if at all possible.

OK thanks will have a look at those. Does the Toshiba driver work with other makes of drive? Currently using an old Sony drive.

I'm currently building a DX2/66 box for old games. Shuttle HOT-407 motherboard, 16MB RAM, AMI Bios, S3 805 VLB video, SB16, 1GB Quantum hard disk (needed to load Dynamic Drive Overlay to get more than 504mb which takes up 6kb of upper memory). When configuring AUOTEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS I normally …

The funny thing is, spore was cracked a few days before release and is readily available on many torrent sites. This DRM has done nothing but hurt legitimate customers. I was going to buy this but even disregarding the hoohaa about the DRM... all the online reviews seem to think the game is just not …

I used to have this exact problem when I was playing the CD version of this game on a 486 with DOS 6.22. From memory, there is a batch file (RTZ.BAT) which loads the sound drivers and then loads the game executable. The last line in the batch file unloads the sound driver after the game exits. This …