Posted by Edge on 23, 2000 at 2:06 PM:
I am unable to resolve this problem. I continually receive
"Page Fault" error whenever I try to run a large game under
MAME (this was true under .37b5 and still is under .37b6).
The machine originally had 64MB of PC100 RAM; I upgraded it
to 128MB and it has the exact same problem.
This happens directly from the command line, without a
front-end (although it happens there too). i.e., "MAME MK3"
or "MAME KOF98" results in a PAGE FAULT after loading some
of the ROMs, accompanied by a "Serious HD error" dialog. I
have to hit the RESET button at that point, and SCANDISK usually
finds 3-4MB of "unallocated clusters", and on occasion it has had
to replace the FAT with another copy elsewhere on the drive!
The machine in question is a P3 450 which had the drive
freshly formatted and Win98se ("Compact" option) installed.
I then edited MSDOS.SYS so that BootGUI was 0 so I start
up in DOS.
My CONFIG.SYS loads EMM386.SYS, HIMEM.SYS, CTMOUSE.SYS, and
CDROM.SYS. My AUTOEXEC.BAT loads MSCDEX and sets up
the SoundBlaster 16 (ISA) card stuff. It also sets TMP
and TEMP environment variables. Running "MEM" shows plenty
of free memory (around 614K low) available.
Most importantly, I *am* using CWSDPMI release 4, so that
is not the problem. The Page Fault's occured with release 4
with both 64MB and 128MB of RAM.
Can anybody successfully run KOF98 or MK3 under "pure DOS"
(not via MAME32)? If so, what do your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files look like? Are you using any special memory managers
or anything else out of the ordinary?