Decrease buffers to 10 or 20
decrease fcbs to 1
load dos high

Tried that, no change...

"Dreamweb has an Error: At least 590k of base memory is required".

🙁 😠

My platform is XP, forgot to add. Its possible theres no way getting the game run on it, but I keep my hopes up... I've had so good luck with many other old titles with VDMSound. 😀

If you use a PIF file try checking the reserved checkbox under Conventional Memory properties but i doubt it will do anything. No harm in trying, though.

Fender wrote:

Hi folks,

Trying desperately to get Dreamweb to run via VDMsound, I'm using the launchpad GUI.

Unfortunately the game reports over 590k of base mem is needed. 🙄

Fender, have you tried to run "mem /c" with VMDSound, to check which programs are loaded in memory? Create a batch file that runs "mem /c" and redirect the output to a file, then run the batch using the Launchpad and post the contents of the file here.

I have a similiar problem in my notebook because the motherboard has little space available for UMBs. In this case, the NTVDM cannot load DOSX (the DPMI provider) inside an UMB and it ends up using something like 33kB of conventional memory. There are two things that you can try, depending on the memory requirements of the game you want to play. If the game requires DMPI, try disabling EMS support in the launchpad shortcut for the game, to free the memory range used by the EMS frame. If the game requires EMS only, disable DPMI support to prevent DOSX from being loaded.

Regards,

This is basically the more lengthy (long-winded) version of what the Major said...

It's quite possible that your PC has no capacity for EMS. It all depends on your motherboard and the various bits of hardware you have plugged into it.

Create a file named GO.BAT and edit it to contain the single command MEM /C, then run it with VDMSound (right-click and choose Run with VDMS), it should report something like the following:

Conventional Memory :

Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
MSDOS 13184 ( 12.9K) 3380
KBD 3296 ( 3.2K) CE0
EMM 176 ( 0.2K) B0
HIMEM 1248 ( 1.2K) 4E0
COMMAND 3152 ( 3.1K) C50
FREE 112 ( 0.1K) 70
FREE 633984 (619.1K) 9AC80

Total FREE : 634096 (619.2K)

Upper Memory :

Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
SYSTEM 180208 (176.0K) 2BFF0
MOUSE 12528 ( 12.2K) 30F0
DOSX 34720 ( 33.9K) 87A0
FREE 256 ( 0.3K) 100
FREE 34336 ( 33.5K) 8620

Total FREE : 34592 ( 33.8K)

Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 668688 (653.0K)
Largest executable program size : 633712 (618.9K)
Largest available upper memory block : 34336 ( 33.5K)

4194304 bytes total EMS memory
4194304 bytes free EMS memory

20971520 bytes total contiguous extended memory
0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
16628736 bytes available XMS memory
MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

Cut and paste your results from your command prompt, here.

Heyas fellows, problem solved. Stupid me. Disabling DPMI support did the trick, like MajorGrubert (Moebius fan, I assume? 😉 ) suggested.

Thanks again! I'm off to get a hefty load of nostalgia playing Dreamweb! 😁