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First post, by Psykovore

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I have been having trouble running the dos game Deus. I have a pentium II which runs at about 300 something MHz, windows xp sp1 and a ntfs formated disk.
I have tried running it with VDMSound 2.1.0 but it gives me a "general protection fault possible invalid adress code = 0000 ...". I also tried messing around with the options of VDMS but ended in failure.
Dos box 0.63 started the game but hangs when I click the start game button.
I also tried microsoft virtual machine with win 95 running but got the same thing as with VDMS. Also booting it on fat32 partitions fails.
Im all out of ideas so please tell me is there any chance it will work with my current configuration.

Reply 1 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

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The only thing that I advise you is to try running it under pure MS-DOS, given the hardware you have.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Psykovore

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So there is no chance at all it will run under WinXP and NTFS?
First of all where could I find DOS, it is copyrighted by microsoft so that rules off internet, and where I live there is absolutely no store that sells dos and nobody cares that much for dos games/programs to have it.
Second of all even if I had dos I have no idea how to make it run because all my disk partitions are Ntfs( C: , D: ). I cant delete C: and make it FAT or FAT32 again because the computer has some information that I must not delete and the D: (WindowsXP) partition is too small even whitout anything but windows, if I would uncompress the partition (any of them) it would be at least quadruple the partitions size. I cant resize the partitions using the windows disk manager because it doesnt let me resize the windows partition. Also while using "Partition magic 8.0" it says something about the disk containing one or more partitions that cannot be moved and to go to the operations menu whish by the way is all grayed out and unselectable, also it doesnt recognize the disk as formatted with NTFS but its shown in yellow as in "other" ("other" what?).
I dont mean to be anoying or anything but I really want to see this game run on the computer.

Im just askin if there is any way to run it whitout a wipeout of all data on the computer?
If not, please at least tell me what that error message means.

Reply 3 of 3, by DosFreak

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The best version of DOS to get is freedos @ www.freedos.org
You can get DOS to support NTFS partitions but the driver usually eats up alot of conventional and also I wouldn't trust it for common usage. Usually these DOS NTFS drivers are for only for usage in recovery situations.

With that error message I don't think running the game in DOS will make it work but it is a possibility.

NTFS has nothing to do with your problem. Software does not care what filesystem it is on unless it deals directly with the filesystem (drivers/defragmentation/recovery software).

If the game is small enough you can easily create a 9x boot disk, stick your game on a floppy and try it from there.

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