Hey Folks,

I'm having some difficulties with Windows 3.11 and some old games

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I decided to really relive my early childhood era of games on windows 3.1 on the old IBM aptiva 486 we had. I had a spare pentium since a recent acquisition last week which is how the thought occurred to me so I thought why not...

The initial DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11 installs went fine. I've got my ATI driver loaded for the Mach64 card I have and the desktop runs at a nice 800x600 now with 16-bit color. I installed my soundblaster 16 drivers for the CT2980 that's in there. all was well until I tried to play wolf 3d and it crashed. I know I played wolf 3d on win 3.1 as a kid so it can work right... so I exited to DOS, tried it from the command line, and it barfed that it needed more memory.

I've managed to figure out some tweaking and now Wolf3d works, but not spear of destiny....

I did have spear of destiny running from within Win 3.11 earlier after I accidently broke the CD ROM driver and replaced the mouse driver with ctmouse but I had to go back to mouse because the mouse wasn't working in warcraft when launched from windows. So now the mouse works in warcraft and that one launched fine from windows. wolf3d works fine from windows, but not spear or destiny and when trying it in pure DOS it nags that there's not enough memory. Cannon Fodder 2 works, but not cannon fodder 1 and when launched from dos it says i don't have enough ram as well

I also have issues with other games like doom, duke3d, strife, rise of the triad, where if I boot to pure dos and run them, they work fine. But if I launch them from Windows it seems the minute they tried to use the soundcard they freeze up. Seems to be a sound driver issue or sorts there I think so I've probably done something wrong with how the sound driver is loading

I found this thread the other day, and a few others here, but this one helped me get a bit more organized anyway as I took a bit from it
Config.sys & Autoexec.bat for the nth time I imagine

So at this point, this is my config.sys

1[MENU]
2menuitem=WINDOWS, Windows 3.11
3menuitem=DOS1, MS-DOS 6.22 - Expanded Memory
4menuitem=DOS2, MS-DOS 6.22 - Extended memory
5menudefault=WINDOWS, 5
6
7[COMMON]
8FILES=45
9BUFFERS=30,0
10BREAK=ON
11STACKS=9,256
12LASTDRIVE=E
13SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
14SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
15DEVICE=C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
16
17[HIMEMDOS]
18DOS=HIGH,UMB
19DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /V
20REM FILESHIGH=45
21REM BUFFERSHIGH=30,0
22REM LASTDRIVEHIGH=E
23
24[SETVER]
25DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
26
27[DOSINIT]
28DEVICEHIGH /L:2 =C:\CDROM\CDROM.SYS 
29SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:512 /P
30
31[WINDOWS]
32INCLUDE=HIMEMDOS
33DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM D=64 MIN=0 NOTR
34REM INCLUDE=SETVER
35DEVICEHIGH /L:2 =C:\CDROM\CDROM.SYS 
36DEVICEHIGH /L:1 =C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
37
38[DOS1]
39INCLUDE=HIMEMDOS
40DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM D=64 MIN=0 NOTR
41REM INCLUDE=SETVER
42INCLUDE=DOSINIT
43
44[DOS2]
45INCLUDE=HIMEMDOS
46REM INCLUDE=SETVER
47INCLUDE=DOSINIT

and autoexec.bat file

1SET SOUND=C:\SB16
2SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
3SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
4SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
5C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
6C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
7C:\CTCM\CTCU /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
8
9@ECHO OFF
10PROMPT $p$g
11PATH C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\CTCM;C:\DOS;
12SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\CDROM
13
14goto %config%
15
16:WINDOWS
17LH /L:2 C:\WINDOWS\MSCDEX.EXE /S /D:12345678 /L:D
18LH /L:2 MOUSE
19C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM
20goto end
21
22:DOS1
23REM LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DOSKEY.COM
24LH /L:2 C:\WINDOWS\MSCDEX.EXE /S /D:12345678 /L:D
25LH C:\DOSPACK\DRIVERS\ctmouse.exe /R2
26goto end
27
28:DOS2
29REM LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DOSKEY.COM
30LH /L:2 C:\WINDOWS\MSCDEX.EXE /S /D:12345678 /L:D
31LH C:\DOSPACK\DRIVERS\ctmouse.exe /R2
32goto end
33
34:end

in Summary

• need a hand with memory management/allocation
• games freezing when attempting to use sound card when launched from windows