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- From: douillar@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Douillard Pierre-Jean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: HELP: PROBLEM WITH RUNNING SHERLOCK HOLMES
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.231021.15330@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:10:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.033310.849@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
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- Organization: Universite de Montreal
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- In article <1992Dec29.033310.849@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> liana@nexus.yorku.ca (Liana Simons) writes:
- >
- >Run into a problem when trying to play Sherlock Holmes.
- >
- >1) Getting clipped digital speech. I'm using a Sound Blaster Pro with
- >standard IRQ settings and the DMA setting in emm386 or 386MAX has been changed
- >to 40.
- >
- >2) After playing the game *ONCE* it now crashes after the intro credits roll on
- >the screen with the following error. I have tried using emm386.exe and 386MAX
- >memory drivers. Both come up with the same error at the same spot. I am also
- >using a smartdrv cache.
- >
- >
- > Unable to install device driver for some reason
- >
- > 418672 Base Free (573992 at DOS) out of a total of 640K
- > Heap integrity verified as ok
- > DOS version 5.0
- > current disk C: 4276K bytes free of 105584K
- >
- >
- > Total EMS current used: 0
- >
- > 0 disks hits saved by cache. 0 bytes in disk hits saved.
- >
- >Has anyone else ever run into these problems? Does anyone have any solutions?
- >My wife is relatively angry at having a new X-Mas toy and not being able to use
- >it.
- >
- >Either post, or send me e-mail.
- >
- >Thanks alot
- >
- >Wanderer
- >
- >Frustrated at a 29Meg game that won't work!
- >
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Liana Simons | WANDERER - Robert Simons
- >Cat Owner, | Wandering through cold silicon hallways,
- >Cat Lover | Seeing everything, but nothing,
- >and Cat Owned! | Forever Wandering, The Wanderer
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Those who compute together, stay together.
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Hi! I got that problem too. Try this in your config.sys:
-
- If you're running with DOS 5.0 EMM386.EXE do
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- device=c:\dos\emm386.exe on 1024 ram d=32
-
- this should 'fix' the crash. It worked for me. :)
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