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First post, by markuno

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Im trying to play Raptor both in native DOS 6.22 and Win98 and shortly before level 1 ends the game crashes and the PC hangs out irremediably. I have disabled caches and it seems that there is no problems that way but there's a little lag. Do I have to do that on a Pentium 200MMX to play it without hangings? I have already patched the game version.

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Reply 1 of 7, by chinny22

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Bad install? as that's a preferable answer to hardware issue
I've played it on a Dx2/66 up to a P3 1Ghz without disabling anything.

Reply 2 of 7, by markuno

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Which hard issue should i go after? Hdd maybe? Don't think it's a bad install because I've tried different sources of the game with the same result.

Reply 3 of 7, by root42

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If the caches have to disabled to function correctly, maybe there is a fault in one of the cache ICs? Or maybe your BIOS has some other cache related settings?

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Reply 4 of 7, by markuno

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Starting to suspect of the dual boot (Dos 6.22/win98) via plop recently installed, I started a different fresh new hdd with pure dos only and guess what... The game crashed again. In some messages i could catch from a picture like the one i've uploaded says something like DOS4GW Professional error. Any clue on how to fix it? Or i've just to change my motherboard?

Reply 5 of 7, by root42

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Just for the sake of it: can you run memtest86 on your machine, to check if all RAM and cache is good?

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Reply 6 of 7, by markuno

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Well, i've ran a memtest86 as you suggested. When it started to find errors the program freaked out in a myriad of colors. So... The problem is the cache memory. Any way to fix issues like that?

Reply 7 of 7, by markuno

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Another run of memtest86 and i've been able to take this picture and now my question is: the errors are from the caches or one of the 32mb simm edo rams?

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