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First post, by NitroX infinity

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I've got some problems with games in DOS.
(Boot > F8 > MS-DOS; Win98se installation)

1) Carmageddon < SOLVED
I've got the UK version (zombies with green blood) with the DOS and Win95 versions on the cd.
The problem with the DOS version is that the cutscenes won't play. The first frame shows, but then it stops. Skippable with the ESC button. Could it have to do with not having a soundcard installed?
*Solved; Carmageddon's sound setup selected the wrong chips.

2) Sento/Creep Clash.
The installer says it needs 8MiB of RAM. I've got 64MiB installed. Maybe there's something configured wrong or missing in my autoexec.bat/config.sys files?

My system;
Windows 98se
AOpen AX59Pro
Pentium 166 @100MHz
64MiB PC133 SDR-SDRAM
S3 Trio64V+ 2MiB PCI
120GiB HDD
52x CD-Drive
FDD.

My Config.sys;

NUMLOCK=OFF
BREAK=ON
DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO
FILESHIGH=40
FCBSHIGH=1,0
BUFFERSHIGH=30,0
LASTDRIVEHIGH=J
STACKSHIGH=9,256
COUNTRY=031,437,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\COUNTRY.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /V
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM /MIN=0 I=B000-B7FF /V
DEVICEHIGH /L:2=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
DEVICEHIGH /L:2=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\CD1.SYS /D:MSCD000
DEVICEHIGH /L:2=C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH /L:2=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM C:\WINDOWS\ /E:1024 /P

My Autoexec.bat;

@ECHO OFF
LH /L:2 C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000 /M:15 /E /S /L:D /V
LH /L:0,2 /S C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SMARTDRV 2048 16 /V
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MODE CON RATE=32 DELAY=2
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MODE CON CP PREP=((437) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EGA.CPI)
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MODE CON CP SEL=437
LH /L:2 C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\KEYB DK,437,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\KEYBOARD.SYS
LH /L:2 C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MOUSE\AMOUSE
LH /L:2 C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DOSKEY /INSERT
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
SET DIRCMD=/P /A
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

Got the majority of this from http://madsenworld.dk/con_auto/index-uk.htm

Does anyone have some ideas? I'm not at home in DOS and especially not in config.sys and autoexec.bat.

Last edited by NitroX infinity on 2014-05-11, 14:24. Edited 3 times in total.

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Reply 2 of 5, by NitroX infinity

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Okay, good to know. Good thing I have some old soundcards laying around. I just hope they work 😁

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Reply 4 of 5, by Mau1wurf1977

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Some games have issues with too much RAM. It's one reason why I use and recommend going with 16 MB for Socket 7 DOS gaming PCs. There are ways to limit memory through Software, but I would try with a small memory stick first.

Also the game might want XMS or EMS. The readme file might offer more clues.

Your config files look a bit messy. Did you use MEMMAKER or something like that?

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