As the title states, I'm having a problem with some older DOS games. I've had a variety of problems running various older games, most of which required different solutions, but there's one problem I've faced in several different games that I can't seem to find a solution for. What happens is the game loads up successfully, but once the game starts running, the monitor starts flashing [like it's trying to automatically resize] repeatedly, until the monitor finally just quits and I have to reboot the computer. The only two games that come to mind right now are Realms of Arkania II and Al-Qadim (sp?), but I know I've seen it happen in a couple others. I've tried everything I can think of (including running in Full-Screen and Windowed mode, manually editing the screen's resolution and color mode, etc) but can't seem to figure it out. If anyone has had a similar problem and/or knows a solution, please let me know. Thanks!

If you're talking about running it in XP then you might only need to go to the mfg site of your video card and get a new driver. I had a similar incident with Serious Sam on my XP Pro machine. XP will often times load a driver that seems to work just fine with your equipment but it also might be very basic. tom

Ah. DOS games. I play many. To avert the problem, I boot in DOS 6.22; I have made my machine dual boot. I did it half-ass, and you can do it, to. You say you are running Win95. Is your primary partition FAT32? If so, this will work for you. Get a clunker hard disk out of an old PC. Foramt it FAT16. Install all the DOS files on it, make it as if you were going to boot from it (but don't make it active), copy the necessary drivers to it, make config.sys and autoexec.bat, etc. Install it as your primary slave, secondary master, or seconday slave - it doesn't matter as long as it isn't the *bootable* hard disk. When you want to run DOS, boot with a DOS 6.22 floppy. Copy the autoexec.bat and config.sys you made for this FAT16 hard disk to the floppy. When the PC boots, it will start DOS. DOS can't *see* FAT32, so the FAT16 hard disk becomes your C: disk for this session. When you want Win9x, simply boot w/o the floppy. You will be able to move files between hard disks in this session. (Your FAT16 disk will be D: or something for this session.) Nothing runs DOS games like DOS. Good luck. -Doug

U are running the game under Win95 ? ..well heres something STRANGE I have experienced with several older games then run under Win98: If the SWAP-FILE is larger then 409600 kb (system.ini) they STOP working !, but if the value is set below 409600 kb (system.ini) they works exellent !! ______________________________________________________________ __(I only noticed that because: then having set max/min swapfile to 2048 MB, one __of the games suddently poped up an errormessage: "Can't find the swap-file" !!