[Beech6]

Hi
I'm trying to run an old DOS CD-Rom game from DOS in Windows 98. It starts to load fine - telling me what it's loading in the Dos window. Then it gets to UVCONFIG and says that it can't load it because it needs more than 490k base memory.

I've read through a few solutions and my system is already loading start-up drivers into the high memory section to free up conventional memory. Using the command 'mem' tells me that I can run a program of upto 690k.

Not sure what else to do.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Beech

[DaveBurnett]

In a DOS Window or in DOS

[Beech6]

In a DOS window.
(Although I have tried creating an icon that automatically shuts down windows and runs the program in MS-DOS mode, but I get various error messsages as I have an error in the CONFIG.SYS script. This is my first time tyring to construct a script for this file and the error talks about not allocating memory for the CD).

If there is no way to launch this game in a DOS window, can you suggest some sample CONFIG and AUTOEXEC scripts?

[DaveBurnett]

I'll have a look later and see what I can do. (I need to shut down and boot into 98 to try things)

[DaveBurnett]

Hang on a minute! I had a look at my system and I get 590K free. Then I thought the 690k you mentioned in your first post is above the maximum 640k total.
Can you open a DOS prompt , type mem /debug >c:debug.txt and attach the debug.txt to your next post. That way we'll be able to see exactly what is being loaded.