CLUELESS PRIVATEER

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Matino

Spaceman
So I came home yesterday after another grueling year of college...2 more to go and I'm outta there!! Anyways, while cleaning out my closet, I found a treasure: My Old Privateer CD. Oh man, this summer is gonna Great I thought, but I inevitably ran into some problems installing Privateer.

Specs of my Comp:
HP 666MHZ Celeron
128 RAM
15 Gig Hard Drive


So here's what I did:
- I installed the game with CD in DOS
- When I tried playing Privateer, I got an error message saying that I had ??no EMS memory and that I should replace it with RAM??
- I decided to create a BootDisk and ran Privateer after rebooting: No DICE...said the same thing.

So now I have no clue what to do. I LOVE this game and I would much appreciate it if someone could help me play the game. Thank you soo much....
 
Simple: I think your EMM386 has EMS disabled. Change the relevant line in your CONFIG.SYS to this

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 16384 RAM
 
Thanks

I did exactly what you said, however, now I am faced with a problem saying that I have insufficient DOS memory.
What do I do now?
 
Post your boot disk's autoexec.bat and config.sys. Which OS are you using?

[Edited by Johnl12 on 05-07-2001 at 06:42]
 
BOOT DISK

I made my bootdisk using HP's DOSBOOTDISK folder which basically copies the system files along with other programs to load drivers. Here's what my Config.sys and Autoexec.bat look like:

I'm running WINDOWS 98:

CONFIG.SYS:

REM To make a DOS Boot Diskette, see the file C:\DosBoot\DosBoot.txt.

REM Configure the ISA PNP devices
rem device=c:\icu\dwcfgmg.sys

DOS=HIGH,UMB
buffershigh=10
fcbshigh=4
fileshigh=30
lastdrivehigh=Z
stackshigh=9,256
Device=C:\WINDOWS\Himem.Sys /testmem:off
Device=C:\WINDOWS\Emm386.exe RAM NOEMS
DEVICE=c:\cdrom\OakCdRom.SYS /D:IDECD000


AUTOEXEC.BAT

@echo off
REM To make a DOS Boot Diskette, see the file C:\DosBoot\DosBoot.txt.

set path=c:\windows\command

LH c:\windows\command\mscdex /D:IDECD000 /L:M

SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET TEMP=C:\windows\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\windows\TEMP

call c:\dosboot\drivers.bat

c:\windows\smartdrv /q
c:
cd \windows


REM for DOS Networking including most networked games,
REM read the file IPX.BAT and then uncomment the following
REM CALL C:\DOSBOOT\IPX.BAT
 
Yikes, that's a low Buffers setting.

Anyway, change your files to this:

Config.sys:

DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM 16384 /I=B000-B7FF
BUFFERSHIGH=30
FILESHIGH=30
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:IDECD000

Autoexec.bat:

@ECHO OFF
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
SET PROMPT=$P$G
LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:IDECD000 /L:M /E
CALL C:\DOSBOOT\DRIVERS.BAT

If it still doesn't work, give us the contents of that DRIVERS.BAT file.
 
Tried it, but NO DICE again...The error message says that I have insufficient DOS memory to run Privateer. Please consult the manual (which I dont have :)) for configuring your system.

My Drivers.bat says:

@echo off
call c:\dosboot\mousie.bat
 
Yuck, all these autoexecs which call other batch files... :)

I don't see how you're still not getting enough memory seeing as the startup files Stinger gave you isn't loading much stuff.
 
Matino, I have the EXACT same problem, trying to run Privateer on my old Compaq. Check out my thread. I think if one of us get our problem solved, we both will.
 
Originally posted by Matino
Tried it, but NO DICE again...The error message says that I have insufficient DOS memory to run Privateer. Please consult the manual (which I dont have :)) for configuring your system.

My Drivers.bat says:

@echo off
call c:\dosboot\mousie.bat
Click to expand...

And what in the mousie.bat.
 
Stinger: Just wondering: In the config.sys you mentioned below shouldn't the DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO statement be placed after the HIMEM.SYS/EMM386.EXE calls are made?
I always thought that the HIMEM.SYS/EMM386.EXE lines have to be the first lines in config.sys to avoid confusion.
 
I'm not sure if it matters too much, but for the sake of erm... 'properness'? I always have the himem/emm386 device lines first, then the dos=high etc.
 
It doesn't really matter which order those lines are in; I seem to recall that the OS processes the DOS= line first regardless of where it is.
 
Matino: Looks like it's time to try playing off the HD so you can get rid of those CD-ROM drivers.

Copy priv.tre and rf.tre from the CD to your Privateer directory, then edit priv.cfg and rf.cfg so they look like this:

priv.cfg:

=C:\PRIVATER\PRIV.TRE

rf.cfg:

=C:\PRIVATER\RF.TRE

This, of course, assuming that C:\PRIVATER is where you installed the game. Once that's done, get rid of the line starting with DEVICEHIGH in config.sys and the line starting with LH in autoexec.bat.
 
Originally posted by Matino
Tried it, but NO DICE again...The error message says that I have insufficient DOS memory to run Privateer. Please consult the manual (which I dont have :)) for configuring your system.

My Drivers.bat says:

@echo off
call c:\dosboot\mousie.bat
Click to expand...

Remove that drivers.bat line and try again.
Also it would help if you'd post the result of the
mem /c
command.
 
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