Error in games using the build engine

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:47 pm

Hello! I recently bought a laptop (HP Omnibook, 166 Mhz Pentium, 40 mb ram) that I am going to use solely for playing classical DOS games. Thus, It only has MS-DOS 6 installed. (No windows). Everything works fine except for one thing : Some games give me this error : "EMM386 - Fatal Exception Error 12". It only happens in a few games, mainly those using the build engine (Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood) and some other ones like Ignition. The common factor of all those is that they run in SVGA mode. (Blood actually worked when I changed the resolution to 320x200). Still, I am not certain if this is the problem, since other games which uses high-res modes work. Also, some pages that I found said the the problem should be solved if I added : "STACKS=9,256" to my Config.sys file. However, this didnt helped either. Does anyone have an idea about what the problem might be and how to fix it? I would be grateful for all help!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:18 pm

Try deleting your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files (back them up first), reboot, then try to run the game.