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First post, by XboXC

Posted on 2025-01-26, 10:31

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Hi. I have win 3.11 wfw and i want to set a big 1024x768 16bit color wallpaper (BMP).But i cant - system says its too big to fit to memory. Really? I have 64MB RAM.

Main "PC":
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Mac Pro Xeon 2x 3GHz (Quad), 12GB RAM, MacOS 10.15, Radeon HD 5770

Retro:
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Apple Macintosh Quadra 650, 68040 33MHz, 64MB RAM, Mac OS 8.1
PC (clone): Intel 80486 DX2 66MHz, 64MB RAM, Windows 3.11 WfW, ATI Rage2

Reply 1 of 3, by vstrakh

Posted on 2025-01-26, 11:21

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Could be the decision to reject is based in video driver and memory sizes, not just system ram?
Equally possible the error message doesn't represent the actual issue , and the real problem is not the image size in bytes but image's color depth.

Reply 2 of 3, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2025-01-26, 11:23

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Try limiting the amount of memory available to Windows in your system's BIOS. This may sound funny, but I heard here before about DOS games not working properly with too much memory. Also, you can use a RAM drive such as XMSDSK to eat much of your system's memory. You can find XMSDSK at https://dosprograms.info.tt/indexall.htm#utils.

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Reply 3 of 3, by XboXC

Posted on 2025-01-26, 12:21

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I have 1024x768x 24bit resolution. And mach64 driver with ati rage 2, 4MB card. Windows 3.1 works good its stable. I just want wallpaper. 😁 i will try the xmsdsk

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