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Stunts - the Game => Stunts Questions => Topic started by: ikkejw on February 21, 2006, 01:03:11 PM

Title: reservememory error
Post by: ikkejw on February 21, 2006, 01:03:11 PM
Hello guys,
I'm trying to run Stunts on my 25MHz 386 with 4MB RAM (running FreeDOS)
However, I get the following error when trying to run the game:
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reservememory - OUT OF MEMORY RESERVING UNFLIP P=32 HW=1220

Note that the HW=*** number changes all the time. I suppose it's a hardware memory address.
Also, when I run setup and change the sound/video settings it sometimes says SDMAIN.PVS or FONTDEF.FNT instead of UNFLIP.

I already Googled it but the only thing I found was this:
http://miataru.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/7710.html

Are there other people who experienced this error and know how to deal with it? I'd really like to play this game again on a 386 :)
Title: reservememory error
Post by: zaqrack on February 21, 2006, 03:42:42 PM
stunts neads a heap of conventional memory, so disable disk chache and such things - i dont know how it works at freedos, with msdos, siabling the cd drive (mscdex), smartdrive and emm486 usually works.
Title: reservememory error
Post by: Anonymous on February 21, 2006, 03:48:46 PM
Quote from: "zaqrack"stunts neads a heap of conventional memory, so disable disk chache and such things - i dont know how it works at freedos, with msdos, siabling the cd drive (mscdex), smartdrive and emm486 usually works.
FreeDOS is basically the same as MS-DOS except it isn't from MS :)

MEM says I have 598K conventional, 96K upper, and 2936K extended memory free. That should be enough I hope?
I remember it used to work on my HP Vectra 486 which always had like <550K conventional mem free.
Title: reservememory error
Post by: ikkejw on February 21, 2006, 03:59:17 PM
btw, FreeDOS has a start-up menu by default that allows you to choose between: himem+emm386, himem, or no drivers.
Both the Himem+EMM386 and himem options give the error, the 'no drivers' plays the menu tune and then exits with the same error message. :(
Title: reservememory error
Post by: You Know Who on February 21, 2006, 04:48:24 PM
Ikkejw= Ikke Jacob from MSN aka Sleepy Salami?  :)
Title: reservememory error
Post by: ikkejw on February 21, 2006, 10:06:52 PM
Quote from: "You Know Who"Ikkejw= Ikke Jacob from MSN aka Sleepy Salami?  :)
nope, just ikkejw.
Title: reservememory error
Post by: CTG on February 21, 2006, 11:05:53 PM
many-many unknown people
Title: reservememory error
Post by: CTG on February 21, 2006, 11:09:32 PM
???????, ???????, ???????!
Title: reservememory error
Post by: ikkejw on February 22, 2006, 10:58:26 AM
BblyubTe? err, sure... :roll:
Title: reservememory error
Post by: CTG on February 22, 2006, 12:41:27 PM
It's russian and a famous quote from Lenin. It means: Learn, learn, learn!
Title: reservememory error
Post by: Mingva on February 22, 2006, 07:41:56 PM
:-k
Title: reservememory error
Post by: JTK on February 22, 2006, 08:19:03 PM
??????????????????????????  :twisted:
Title: reservememory error
Post by: Anonymous on February 22, 2006, 09:28:56 PM
On topic, does anyone have answer to my question yet?
Title: reservememory error
Post by: zaqrack on February 22, 2006, 09:36:27 PM
I dont think anyone has experiences with freedos, and I fear it might be a freedos issue.
Title: reservememory error
Post by: CTG on February 22, 2006, 11:32:48 PM
Quote from: "Mingva":-k

Just a question: how is the correct version of these Russian sentences? I used the translator and partly knew the spelling of these words (but not perfect, I guess).
Title: reservememory error
Post by: ikkejw on February 23, 2006, 08:49:13 PM
Quote from: "zaqrack"I dont think anyone has experiences with freedos, and I fear it might be a freedos issue.
Yeah, but could also be my crappy IBM bios not detecting the RAM or something...
I only have 1 EDO-RAM card that works in this thing, the other 10 or so (which all work fine on other pc's) don't :(
Title: reservememory error
Post by: zaqrack on February 23, 2006, 08:55:06 PM
stunts uses only the conventional and nothing else. this cant be an issue
Title: reservememory error
Post by: CTG on February 23, 2006, 09:04:37 PM
This topic reminds me on the good old times in the dormitory. There was a nice 286 computer with 16 Mhz CPU - we (Akoss, Usrin, me and many others) used it for Stunts racing. :)
Title: reservememory error
Post by: ikkejw on February 24, 2006, 10:51:31 AM
It's working!

I removed the DISPLAY and codepage things from autoexec.bat (which were using 12kB of memory), disabled the cd-rom driver, and now I can play Stunts again! :D:D:D
Title: reservememory error
Post by: zaqrack on February 24, 2006, 10:52:54 AM
ok so it was the memory after all :)

glad you made it!
train and join the race!
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