MOO and Windows ME (Expanded Memory)

[GrandSpleen]

No, you were correct --- I am using Win98. The original poster used ME, I guess maybe I should have started a new thread. I don't know why I can't get the silly thing to run, emm386.exe is present and all that jazz, there's just some sort of conflict I can't nail down. I'll post here if I ever figure it out.
Thanks,
GS

[vmxa1]

I hate to have something like this beat me, sorry. If you are ambitious I would try
1) look at startup in MSCONFIG and uncheck everything I did not know was a Windows job. Reboot and see what effect that had.
2) If not then I would install Windows again not add anything until I checked out EMM386. This has to be an environmental issue. I have had 8-10 PC's with win95/98/me and all ran Orion and Orion2, if they did not they would be gone. IN fact I gave my (now very old) PIII -733 to my son when I was having trouble with Heros3 (only box that every did) back when the Geforce 2 had just came out. I mean I have been running on PIV 1.7G boox with Geforce 3 for about a year and it works for both games. Good luck.

[chas]

I found this on the Microsoft site for running MS-DOS programs with ems in WinME:

On the toolbar click Start , click Run , type System.ini , and then click OK.


Find the EmmExclude or NoEMSDriver statement in the [386enh] section, and then type a semicolon ( ; ) at the beginning of the line.


Save the file and then restart your computer.

NOTE : An example of an EmmExclude entry is "EMMExclude=C000-CFFF". If this does not resolve the issue, add a "ReservePageFrame=yes" statement to the [386enh] section of the System.ini file. If this does not resolve the issue, your system may have insufficient upper memory blocks available for Windows Me to provide EMS memory in Windows. Due to the removal of real mode support in Windows Me, this problem can occur even if Windows 95 or Windows 98 was able to provide EMS memory in Windows.

The whole page is (as of APR 17, 2002):

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q275423

I followed this and didn't have to do anything to the config.sys file.

-chas