X-Wing Collector's Edition

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:34 pm

I'm having a lot of trouble getting X-Wing working under VDMSound. It consistently gives me the same error.

"Not enough memory!

Press any key to exit"

I have the graphic launchpad addon, and tried giving the game more EMS and XMS, but to no avail.

Note: I CAN make it run under DOSBox, but performance is not quite optimal.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:34 am

Try it with NO SOUND

Post by **dosraider** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:59 am

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... ight=xwing

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:07 pm

I did try no sound, did nothing.

Thanks for the link dosraider, but I can get it working in DOSBox, as I said earlier.

Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:35 am

Which game in the series are you having trouble with?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:56 pm

The X-Wing Collector's Edition. The complete collection on CD-ROM.
The pure DOS version, not the 9x edition or the floppy one. TM & C 1993, 1995.

Box stuff:

The complete
X-WING
Collection
On CD-ROM

Enhanced CD-ROM version includes:
- Six brand -new missions
- Improved 3D graphics
- Voice and upgraded sound

Plus two Tour Of Duty extensions:
- Imperial PursuitTM and B-WingTM

Post by **dosraider** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:17 pm

I dare still advise you to run it through dosbox, I have also that version and the X-Wing/TIE-Fighter box.
They all run perfect through dosbox.
Only minus for X-Wing: leave the music out.
TIE works fine with SFX and music ( luckily, lovely music in TIE ).

If they don't run fluid in dosbox on your system, check or your dosbox settings, or your PC is not fast enough.

If you think your PC is fast enough, kill everything running on the background, i mean EVERYTHING that isn't needed. Disable active desktop, all windows jinglebells, run dosbox on a clean XP system.

Dosbox is highly dependent on free CPU time to run demanding games smoothly.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:42 pm

Well, it can get reasonably fluid in DOSBox if I close everything unnecesarry.
But VDMSound can usually get things optimal. Is there simply no way to get working under VDMSound? However, just now, DOSBox doesn't seem to realise the cd is there, and it did earlier, and yes, MSCDEX is installed. However, I got X-Wing and TIE-Fighter working in a dual-boot DOS. Anyone know of where I can get USB support and a ancient soundcard?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:21 pm

bump.

Is this okay to do this?

Tompa · Post by **Tompa** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:12 pm

Not tested the usb-support myself, but I created a bootcd from "barts boot cd" which claims to have usb support.
I can't seem to find any info on that on his webpage though, but the config.sys gives you a choice of "USBHD" - not sure if that helps if you want a joystick though.
It also features firewire support - also not tested myself.

Worth a shot perhaps. Be careful with bootcd's though. Not had a problem myself, but there are many possibilities to screw your system up - or so I have been told.

An old soundcard should not be hard to find on ebay? Might be wrong.