Greyking on 28/6/2000 at 20:51
Hello people
I'm having some trouble here. I recently downloaded the uw1 package from one of the links on this forum, and installed it, and it was running (almost) perfectly from day one. I was running it from inside windows, and although i didn't have music (synth speech yes, music no) i had a blast while it lasted. UW2 ran smoothly (without music) too. The thing is...i changed my video card from voodoo3 3000 to creative geforce ddr, and now both uw1 and uw2 says they wont run (c001, out of ems memory). Could a video card change really cause this? And another thing...do you think this could be fixed by clicking the right boxes and buttons under the memory tab on the shortcut? there are lots of choices there.
thanks in advance.
Gothik on 29/6/2000 at 01:04
Changing your videocard shouldn't have affected it. I know as I used to have a Banshee card, then I upgraded to a GeForce DDR and it didn't affect either of the games. You could try the memory options, I've got them all set to auto and both games run fine. Check how much conventional memory you have free as that is the usual reason the games fail to run. (I've got 552k free). Windows will simulate EMS memory if you run the games in a DOS box, so make sure that your EMS setting is on auto not on None.
Greyking on 29/6/2000 at 10:41
The thing is that I am using Windows Millennium, and they've sort of removed all the dos parts here...you can't boot up in dos, you can't shut down to dos, nothing like that. And another thing - when I enter the properties for the shortcut to uw1, or uw1 itself, there is a section prepared for EMS, under the memory tab, but there is nothing there I can change. The EMS section is empty. The other sections are there though (XMS,DPMI, Conventional, Initial environment).
It seems I would have enough memory to _run_ it anyway (580k, largest executable)
I haven't gotten it running again, but thanks for the answer anyway. Maybe it could have something to do with the software that goes with the geforce ddr...hmm..<shrug>
[This message has been edited by Greyking (edited June 29, 2000).]
Le Magot d'Oz on 29/6/2000 at 14:51
In Win Me the real mode (Dos) has been removed (you can only use a emulation of it in protected mode). Despite this little touch, you can always get in Dos mode by using a Boot Disk : maybe it'll work ?
