Dos Games and XP Help me out plz!


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Ok i got a game that runs in dos, but when i run it, it says

"ERROR: An Extended Memory Manager is allready installed

XMS Driver not installed"

I tried to fix this problem myself so I did some research and downloaded HIMEM.SYS but dont really know what to do with it or if i need it at all! Can anyone help me fix this problem? Thanks!

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did u try right cliking the game's .exe and setting its compatability mode to 95? a lot of the dos games will refuse when they see hte OS is NT based...

Quake1 pops up a window saying 'Quake will not run on NT4.0' eheh

the problem is to do with 'conventional memory' - MS-DOS could only access 640k....

if the worst comes to the worst, make urself a dos boot disk, with minimal drivers installed (althou if u have a USB peripheral they probably wont work) - give it a try anyway...

* me gets nostalgic about using boot floppies for Wing Commander and watching the 'Dos4gw protected mode' text come up on the screen :) *

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