Low Virtual Memory

[Guest]

I have put the question in "Games", but maybe that was wrong. The problem
occurs when installing a game, but it is actually about Virtual Memory and I
should maybe put it in "General" forum. It seems like nobody in "Games" forum
can anser it.

Here is a link to my post in the Games forum:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...icrosoft.public.windowsxp.games&lang=en&cr=US

Thanks

 

[Rich Barry]

Karl, Jimmy S. answered your question very thoroughly. It has nothing to
do with Virtual Memory. WinXP is not DOS based. No Dos. In order to get
older games to work you can try Compatiblity Mode or a Dos Emulator.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have put the question in "Games", but maybe that was wrong. The problem
occurs when installing a game, but it is actually about Virtual Memory and I
should maybe put it in "General" forum. It seems like nobody in "Games" forum
can anser it.

Here is a link to my post in the Games forum:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...icrosoft.public.windowsxp.games&lang=en&cr=US

Which I am not going to wade through. But from the other reply here it
sounds as if what you are actually in need of is more DOS conventional
memory, To get the maximum, edit the windows\system32\config.nt and
autoexec.nt files.

In config.nt have (apart from the large number of REM lines) just
EMM = B=4000 RAM
(note the exact spaces - either side of the first = and before RAM,
none next to the second =) and

dos=high, umb
device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys
files=40
(or higher files= if needed)

and in autoexec.nt have

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

with other earlier lh lines REM ed out, and then any SET or PATH lines
that may already be present at the end.

This should give about 612K for a program, run from a shortcut made to
its .exe file. R-click the shortcut, Properties and on the Memory page
you can set an explicit value - rather than Auto - for any EMM or XMS
memory it may need, and for initial environment space