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Name: hemiman80
Date: September 24, 2005 at 15:11:29 Pacific
OS: dos 6
CPU/Ram: 450/32
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Hello i have a DELL GX1 PIII 450 and 32MB of SDRAM PC100 and 1.2gig drive. Now I set this up with DOS 6.0 and WIN 3.11. I installed drivers for the following:
CRYSTAL onboard sound
ATI RAGE PRO
SONY 32x CD DRIVE
3COM NIC
Iomega ZIP250 Internal drive

thats it

Now everytime I try to play a game says i dont have enough memory. For exsample for Kings Quest 6 says You need to free up 124256 bytes. Know i'v tryed everything i can think of memmaker, screwing around with config.sys still not going anywhere with it. please help lol

Thanks



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Name: wizard-fred
Date: September 24, 2005 at 21:49:38 Pacific
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How much free space do you have on the hard drive? Some times the application needs disk space to swap whats in memory. Otherwise post the contents of you config.sys and auto exec.bat and the results of the mem command.


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Name: alexanrs
Date: September 25, 2005 at 16:23:20 Pacific
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I supose you have Windows for Workgroups 3.11, as you are installing a network driver.
Network card drivers are likely to start a real mode driver (via a "NET START" command in autoexec.bat) that consumes much conventional memory (in a Virtual PC machine i have, one of the modules that command starts uses 40kb), so uninstall the network drivers if you do not need.
Also, if you use 32-bit file access, you may try to disable SmartDrv (althoug it will slow down CD-ROMs and floppies) because it consumes 30kb of conventional memory.
But one of the worst things to conventional memory is DoubleSpace/DriveSpace. If you do not use compressed drives, rename DblSpace.bin and drvspace.bin in the root folder to DrvSpace/DblSpace.rem (or whatever you'd like) to prevent them from loading. You will not be able to read any compressed disks


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Response Number 3
Name: avp_micro
Date: September 25, 2005 at 17:44:03 Pacific
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Its all good now thanks for your help :)


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