First post, by Megadisk
World, I need your help please!
I recently upgraded one of my 386SX Amstrad Mega PC's (16MB) with a Cyrix cx486srx2+ utililty and unfortunately one of my favorite MS-DOS games stopped working. The game in question is "Fifa International soccer". I've heard this is a somewhat problematic DOS game but I've never had any issues with it until now 😢 .
Basically, the game always played great while the Mega PC was still a 386SX 25Mhz with a SBpro2 sound card and it was all configured no problem. But now all I get is a memory protection fault error when I try to run it:
I removed the Cyrix cx486srx2 off the motherboard just to double check and the game worked again, reinstalled it and the issue came right back. I also ran some diagnostic tools on the cx486srx2 and it passes all of the tests, so it seems to be installed properly and working as it should. Things I've tried so far: disabling the cx486srx2 1K cache, removing the Intel 387 coprocessor, to no available 😒
The weird thing is that the game some times will start and play at random, but for the most part all I get is the error. Any ideas of what can be done to solve the problem? I'm all ears and thanks in advance for any replies.