Armada boot disk memory issue

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I have made a boot disk to run armada.
There is a flaw in my setup, I keep getting not enough dos memory, every time I try to launch armada. all drivers are loading fine. Any help would be great.
This is my file setup.

Autoexec

loadhigh=mscdex /D:mscd001
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6
SET SBPCI=A:\DOSDRV
loadhigh=A:\DOSDRV\SBLOAD
loadhigh=A:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM
loadhigh=A:\MOUSE\MOUSE

Config.sys

DEVICEHIGH=HIMEM.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=EMM386.EXE ram 16384 i=b000-b7ff
dos=high,umb
fileshigh=30
buffershigh=30
devicehigh=oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd001
 
One quick note

I am aware that if I dont load the cd driver the game will run.
Maybe one of you out that knows an ems trick that would work?
 
Unregistered said:
One quick note

I am aware that if I dont load the cd driver the game will run.
Maybe one of you out that knows an ems trick that would work?
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Everything might not actually be loading "high," despite the prefixes. Did you try temporarily disabling the CD lines to see if the game would run? If CFF's suggestion doesn't help, type mem /c or mem /c > mem.txt and paste the results for us to see.
 
Ok I fixed it.
I was using oakcdrom.sys, the file is 41k so it was a ram hog.
I Hunted down a better cdrom driver. This one only uses 16k.
Game is running well now with cd.

I have noticed if I play the game for more than 10 minutes, my box will crash
when I exit back to dos. Is my computer forgeting where it is?
Is there a refresher command I can add to my autoexec.bat?
 
A crash like that shouldn't be related to anything in/not in autoexec.bat. It's more likely there's some external factor you haven't noticed besides "playing for 10 minutes so the computer forgets." It sounds like a memory leak or some issue with your Windows setup.
 
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