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First post, by razblow

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Hi, I'm trying to install Destruction Derby but it comes up with this message everytime:

"Your game cannot be installed on your system because:

Your system does not contain enough hardware memory to run this game. Your system contains 2048Kb of memory, this game requires 6144kb"

I have an AMD Sempron 2200+ 1.49 GHz, 490MB ram. I'm also running XP service pack 2.

Can anybody give me some advice? Thanks, Raz

Reply 1 of 10, by Kippesoep

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You should've edited your previous post, rather than start a new one.

Anyway, check your dosbox.conf file, the [dosbox] section. Specifically, the value for "memsize". If you have a line in there "memsize=2", change that to something like "memsize=8" or "memsize=16".

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Reply 2 of 10, by razblow

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Oh, sorry. Didn't realize I'd double posted. Thanks for your reply.

I changed the config file to memsize=16. Now, however, it tells me:

Can't install to directory C:\Games\Derby

Any other thoughts? Raz

Reply 3 of 10, by Kippesoep

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Nothing in particular. Are you sure you have actually mounted a directory or drive to DOSBox' drive C?

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Reply 4 of 10, by razblow

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OK, I just tried mounting the drive. So far so good. But then it says:

"You require an mscdex driver installed to run this game"

This is a bit strange because when I mount the drive it tells me that mscdex *is* installed. [Scratches head] I dunno...

Thoughts? Raz

Reply 5 of 10, by Kippesoep

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Have you mounted the CD drive using the command:

mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

(assuming d: is your CD-ROM drive)

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Reply 6 of 10, by razblow

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Yup, tried this. My CD drive even starts spinning. However, it still comes up with the message that I need to install the mscdex driver.

Reply 7 of 10, by Kippesoep

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Make sure the "-ioctl" is included. If that doesn't work, you could always try:
- adding "-label xxx" (where xxx is the volume label of the Destruction Derby CD
- adding "-usecd 0"

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Reply 8 of 10, by Qbix

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uhm -usecd 0 isn't very usefull (it's implied in -ioctl) if you have more than 1 cdrom player then you might need -usecd 1 or 2 to point it to the right one.
Anyway Try a cvs builds as well. Added some additional mscdex detection checks a while ago

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Reply 9 of 10, by HunterZ

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* Deleted the duplicate thread *

Reply 10 of 10, by razblow

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CVS Build did the trick! It works!

Thanks for all your help. Raz