RE: Privateer MEMORY PROBLEMS (XMS???)

danam22315 · Post by **danam22315** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:19 pm

I have a pII 166 with 24Mb of Ram. I recently had to re-format my HD, and I managed to install Privateer, (the original). I've made a boot disk, but I still get the message "insufficient DOS memory". This seems to be a common problem. How can I set up my AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to make use of my XMS. I would like to load all the TSR's into Extended memory. HELP ME!!!!

P.S. I'm running WIN 98 SE
frustrated

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Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:02 pm

danam22315 wrote:I have a pII 166 with 24Mb of Ram. I recently had to re-format my HD, and I managed to install Privateer, (the original). I've made a boot disk, but I still get the message "insufficient DOS memory". This seems to be a common problem. How can I set up my AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to make use of my XMS. I would like to load all the TSR's into Extended memory. HELP ME!!!!
frustrated

[email protected]

Go to ebay and buy a copy of QEMM memory manager (version 7.5 is my favorite), its more powerful then the one built into DOS.

x86_Game-Junkie · Post by **x86_Game-Junkie** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:44 am

privateer I believe runs on P2 166MHz 32 MB of RAM...so I suggest upgrade your RAM.

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:58 am

you edited the progs properties?

danam22315 · Post by **danam22315** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:57 am

Ro@m wrote:you edited the progs properties?

Yes, sort of. I'm still a little unsure about the "use current configuration" and "use new configuration" settings. Can SOMEONE please show me an example of what this should look like???

:Angry: confused & frustrated

danam22315

Post by **Wally** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:34 pm

if you have smartdrv installed in config.sys write

device=c:\windows\smartdrv.exe 256

I think that works well it worked for crusader

danam22315 · Post by **danam22315** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:48 am

I just wanted to leave a note saying that I used MyJemm, and it works!! Privateer runs in a Dos window, although I had to create a msdos shortcut (using the Origin Logo), and set the command line to c:\privater\Myjemm.exe; Just so you know, I used the original config.sys (I didn't specify a new one) in the Properties tab. Also, I changed my config.sys, to BUFFERS=35, and FILES=35.
I hope this will help anyone else trying to run Privateer in Win 98SE!

P.S. Thanks for all your advice

danam22315

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