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Getting Battlespire to work. How I did it.

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First post, by eirinjas

Posted on 2010-10-05, 04:54

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I just wanted to tell other DOSBOX users how I got Battlespire to run. It initially ran okay, but then I applied the 1.5 patch and it just kept complaining about not having enough memory and threatening to crash, which it did - repeatedly. It became unplayable. So I hit the forums here, tried every suggestion, but nothing helped. So I did some searching and I actually found a clue on a Russian forum when looking up the "causeway error". So here it is:

Open up Spire.bat in a text editor. Drop down to the line that reads:

set causeway=MAXMEM:40;PRE:40;NAME:spire.swp

and change the MAXMEM to 71, like so:

set causeway=MAXMEM:71;PRE:40;NAME:spire.swp

Save.

Then mount your cue/iso. Voila! It runs great now, minus some framerate issues, but that's another issue.

Before I edited the Spire.bat the game would find 31 megs + swap on start, now it finds 62 megs + swap.

Reply 1 of 2, by eirinjas

Posted on 2010-10-05, 05:04

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Oh, I guess I should point out the need to set the DOSBOX memsize to something above 40. I set it to 63 for Battlespire, and the 1.5 patch for Battlespire recommends a setting in the Spire.cfg file. I thought I should make those clarifications, however, the game did not run until I made the MAXMEM change.

Reply 2 of 2, by nitro322

Posted on 2011-06-13, 01:25

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Hey, I know this post is a few months old, but just wanted to say thanks for the tip. I ran into the same problem and this was exactly what I needed. Thanks for taking the time to post it here.

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