Should I run qemm install in windows? I burned the iso to a cd.

Did it buy you any more memory at all? BTW, if you want to redirect MEM's output to a text file, try "MEM/C>c:\mem.txt." This will create the file "mem.txt" on your hard drive and send MEM's output there.

Maybe. IIRC, the Windows version has options for the DOS version as well. Again, I'd really like to see how your system's doing now. 😀

Should I repost the config.sys and autoexec?

I just rebooted and it says there's an unrecognized command in the config.sys. I'm going to repost it.

Before you try QEMM, try first adding the "I=" switch I mentioned and "HIGHSCAN" to see if they help. Also see what happens if you use "NOEMS" in one of your configurations to disable EMS. On my new Win98SE tower, I got no UMBs unless I tried these. There, QEMM helped, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get EMS or UMBs in Windows mode at all.

Maybe I was wrong about FILESHIGH=. 🙁 Try reverting that to FILES=. Sorry!

This is a lot of changes to make. I'll try to get them all in. Here's my latest autoexec and config.sys for reference.

I'm doing the optimize process on QEMM now. Weird beeping sounds blasting out of my pc from across the room

All this to try to get Blake Stone working... an admirable effort though so far and future games may benefit from it

I don't know what could be causing the beeping sounds except that PCs of the era usually beep upon start-up. I'm glad you took my suggestions. 😀

At least it could help in the future. 😀

The qemm process is still going. Let's see what happens

Qemm finally finished loading. I'll see if anything changed.

Still won't work in dos.

Oh. Did you try "I=B000-B7FF" and Stealth mode?

Clear your autoexec and config files.

Put this in autoexec:

1SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6
2C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
3SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
4LH C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE.EXE /R2
5LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:OPTICAL

Put this in config:

1DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
2DOS=HIGH,UMB
3DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM
4FILESHIGH=30
5BUFFERS=30
6LASTDRIVE=H
7DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
8DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\VIDECDD.SYS /D:OPTICAL

Reboot and see how much mem you get.

I've had similar problems with a tower having a P4/2.60MHz processor and 1GB RAM. EMM386 with I=B000-B7FF and RAM gave me only 32k UMBs. Disabling EMS gave me 64k more UMBs. I analyzed DOS memory using QEMM's MANIFEST and found 64k of memory that's not being used but was only able to use the lower 32k, as otherwise, EMM386 locks up. My ideas should help, though. BTW, what is your memory layout now?

I tried out the autoexec and config from feda. The game still won't run. Here's the memory layout now. Sorry I don't know how to get it as a text file.

Do as the second item on the list in the error message suggests. This should load dos with absolutely no commands, no mouse, no cd and no sound. How much mem do you get? From there, start adding things one by one.