SimCity 2000 Memory
Chris Weiss
>I have recently installed SimCity 2000 on my PC in DOS format and received a error
>message saying there was not enough memory. I have 178 MB of free memory and SimCity
>2000 requires only 4 MB. What could I do to correct the situation? Would I have to
>free-up memory? I would prefer not doing this because I have to reconfigure my
>start-up files. Please help.
>
>Jeff
>
You have 178 of free RAM(!) or free disk space? The 4mb requirement is
the amount of free RAM that's needed to play SimCity 2000. Chances
are, if you have a machine with 4mb of RAM, and are loading lots of
device drivers and such, you will need to make some changes to your
system files or (better yet) make a boot disk.
SimCity 2000 should have come with a fairly good program that creates
a boot disk for you, installing only the drivers that SimCity 2000
needs. When you wish to play SimCity 2000, you insert the boot disk in
your A: drive, and reboot the machine. The configuration on the floppy
disk will be used instead of your original configuration so you'll be
able to play SimCity 2000 without having to actually change your
existing system files. Then, when you wish to go back to your normal
configuration, take the floppy disk out and reboot your machine.
I think the program is called "BOOTDISK.EXE" and it should have been
copied into the same directory as SimCity 2000. Later versions of
SimCity 2000 DOS can run the boot-disk program from the setup program.
run SETUP.EXE and one of the menu options should be "create boot
disk". I'd recommend running BOOTDISK.EXE from the DOS prompt however,
as I think there was a program bug in the way SETUP.EXE calls
BOOTDISK.EXE which may cause it to just plain not work.
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Frank Larsen
: I have recently installed SimCity 2000 on my PC in DOS format and received
: a error message saying there was not enough memory. I have 178 MB of free
: memory and SimCity 2000 requires only 4 MB. What could I do to correct the
: situation? Would I have to free-up memory? I would prefer not doing this
: because I have to reconfigure my start-up files. Please help.
: Jeff
Try use the option NO_MEM_CHECK.
Frank.
Jeff Feil
: : Jeff
No, bad! Careful here. The NO_MEM_CHK bypasses the memory checking for the
program. If you're getting a "not enough memory" error, then disabling the
error message *will* start the program. For a while. After a few minutes, it
*will* crash because there simply isn't enough memory available. The
NO_MEM_CHK is there for your protection, and should only be used on 8M+
systems which run OS/2, where we need to bypass the memory-check option for
normal usage. It's a check, not a solution.
The simple solution is to make a boot disk with *NO* HIMEM.SYS or other EMS
memory manager loaded (EMM386, QEMM, 386MAX, etc.) Or (experienced users)
modify your CONFIG.SYS as appropriate.
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WILLGOSS RALPH
>Jerry Tessin <jer...@clavin.music.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>I have recently installed SimCity 2000 on my PC in DOS format and received a error
>>message saying there was not enough memory. I have 178 MB of free memory and SimCity
>>2000 requires only 4 MB. What could I do to correct the situation? Would I have to
Solution - give me your 178 MB of RAm and i will give you my 8 and that will
fix the problem (hahahahahaa)
try checking your memory not hard disk space dude, you need at least 4 MB
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