The problem with unavailable EMS on some computers was discussed here at least thousand times...
Some device is occupying the required memory range (try switching off in Bios to found the culprit). SEARCH for more details.

Mirek

Hi! I have this problem too (Impulse tracker -> No 58k of mem free and 0k of EMS free 😒)
I apologize but I don't know what to search... What should I do in Bios?
I've searched for a solution for weeks :'(
Please help!

Some bios features may be occupying the physical address in memory for the EMS page frame. Get into bios and try disabling everything you don't need like SATA controllers, USB, etc...

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I've already disabled integrated sound. I'm currently using USB and ethernet things... Argh, lemme check again...

Disabling SATA and USB keyboard support doesn't solve the problem :'(

Then it seems you are out of luck. That method doesn't work for all mainboards. You should get in contact with manufacturer and maybe ask for a bios release that will address this problem.

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I've already disabled integrated sound. I'm currently using USB and ethernet things... Argh, lemme check again...

Do you *really* need your Ethernet network controller to be enabled when you play the game?? If not, then disable it when you want to play.

Ok, I'll have a try... Impulse tracker is not a game 😉
It's a quite good tracker 😁

Ok, I do have EMS memory by disabling ethernet controller 😀
Unfortunnately, i don't have RAM eough this time 😒
Impulse Tracker says : FreeMem : 58ko
FreeEMS : 16635ko
How can I solve that ? 😒

It's probably talking about conventional.

Edit your config.nt and remove MSCDEX, REDIR, and DOSX if they are not needed.

Re: VDMSound and editing CONFIG.NT

As far as I know, if you use the VDMSound LaunchPad, it will create & use a temporary CONFIG (and AUTOEXEC ?) based on the LaunchPad/game settings, so you can avoid any manual editing.

Opps, I usually just launch DosDrv with a custom .bat, so yeah, what MiniMax said. 😀

So what should I do ? I don't understand what to add in my VDMsound launchpad profile 😒

I've got that:

Argh, please help, I don't manage to have free ram enough 😒

Hi, I'm a new at this and I want to play an FPS called Wrath of Earth. No, this is not game specific, this happens with a lot of games. I get the "Insufficent Memory or EMS Installed" I need help and this topic isn't really helping me because you tell me what I have to do but I don't know how to do it. I'm not real good with Dosbox so I would appreciate some help. Another thing I need to know is how to increase memory because some games are very memory-absorbing.

Joey - go the Wiki listed in my signature. Look for a section on DOSBox front-ends. Find one you like and one that will allow you to change how DOSBox handles EMS memory. Experiment with it.

Thanks, I got the game working but it's incrediblt slow. I'm using D-Fend v2 and I really don't know the best way to make the game faster. Increasing frame-skip isn't really increasing FPS, is it? Because it's not working for me. What can I do ot increase speed? Please help. Thanks.

Increase cycles. I'm sure the Wiki talks about that too.

I keep press ctrl+f12 but the only thing happening is that it gets laggier and laggier. I don't know what to do to make the emulation faster. I'm trying to get the frame rate up.