Thanks! I just eliminated EMM386.EXE, and it works! (NT)


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Posted by Nickster on 24, 2000 at 4:49 PM:

In Reply to: I have the solution posted by Pagan on 24, 2000 at 10:28 AM:

: Hi!

: I had the same problem, until I realized that was EMM386.EXE that caused all the trouble.
: EMM386.EXE doesn't work well with CWSDPMI and MAME. Get rid of it, you don't need to have much base memory in DOS in order to run MAME because CWSDPMI allocates memory on its own. You just need to have HIMEM.SYS loaded in config.sys and preferably SMARTDRV.EXE in your autoexec.bat to stop most of the disk activity. Be sure to add a parameter to smartdrive to stop background writes.

: The only problem in disabling EMM386.EXE is if you have a Sound Blaster PCI or Live, because the DOS drivers only load when EMM386 is present.

: Hope that helps...




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