If you cannot get the sound to work in DOS, companies also provide software sound emulators that in some cases can enable your sound card to work through MS-DOS. A great example of a free sound emulator is VDMSound. Before continuing, make sure your video card has the latest video drivers. If, after following the recommendations above, you're still unable to get your MS-DOS game working properly, try the following recommendations. Unable to install or run game Memory related issues Sound related issues Video related issues Other recommendations.
Related information Basic computer game troubleshooting. How do I find old software? Computer game help and support. You're trying to give the game the environment it wants so read the documentation. Does it require expanded memory EMS? Or does it require extended memory XMS?
What conventional memory does it require? And so on. Post again with the problem with any particular game if you still don't have any luck. There are just some games it dosn't run. Death Rally. It somtimes works. Somtime this year I'm going to reformat, to 98 Second edtion Make sure you've got a Windows StartUp disk and keep copies of anything you're replacing so that you can always go back to how it was.
Some of the people I'm talking about were businesses. WinME is a dog-and-a-half. My advice to you, is go back to Win98 or get WinXP. Now, anything is possible. To try to fix this problem, right-click the program and select Properties. This time, choose the Memory tab. On this tab are sections for configuring Conventional, Expanded, Extended and Protected memory.
By default, you should find that the dropdown list in the Total field of the Conventional memory area is set to 'Auto'. You'll also find that the dropdown lists for Expanded and Extended memory are set to None and 0, respectively. Choose 'Auto' for both of these options and click OK to close out of the Properties window. The initial environment should also be set to its highest setting of Under the Total dropdown box is a box labeled 'Protected'.
This protects the system memory from modifications made by the selected program and should be checked. NT files. Those of us old enough to remember the twin evils of autoexec. Well, these old files haven't completely gone away, they've just assumed new identities. As a precaution, copy these files into your DOS games directory before making changes to them. It's important to remember that the autoexec.
To make a DOS game use a new set of config and autoexec files, right-click its executable file and choose Properties. This time, return to the Program tab and click the Advanced button. This opens a dialogue box labeled Windows PIF Settings, which contains two fields: one for an autoexec filename and one for config. NT in these two fields. To edit the contents of config.
You will find that both files are well commented. Some games require this option to be set before they'll recognize Expanded Memory. The XP environment is not the only problem that you may encounter.
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