Arena crashing horribly on my underpowered PC

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"QT" <quicktransREMOVABLETEXT@fastmail.fm> skrev i en meddelelse
news:2qrqmdF12t0i3U1@uni-berlin.de...
> Hi,
>
> just downloaded this from the official Bethesda website to see what the
> series is about. Pls note that I don't have a powerful PC enough to try
> Morrowind...
> So, after going through the very first dungeon I approach some kind of a
> magic gate and when my chracter enters the gate the game crashes and
> goes back to Windows. (P2 400 MHz, Win 98). It does this all the time,
> anyone encountered this problem?
>
> Thx for any info,
>
> qt

have you tried to unlock the gate? there is a key in the first room

what sort of power DO you have?win95, win98 ?

merlin

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QT wrote:
> Merlin wrote:
>
>> have you tried to unlock the gate? there is a key in the first room
>>
>> what sort of power DO you have?win95, win98 ?
>>
>> merlin
>>
>>
> You did not read my words closely, did you. The problem I have is AT THE
> END of the first level, at the SHIFT GATE (sorry for my calling it a
> magic gate, that might have confused you). I have already said I'm on
> Windows 98.
> Also I've figured out the game needs more memory exactly at the point I
> enter the Shift Gate, it crashes and says "INSUFFICIENT BASE MEMORY".
> Is there any universal approach to tackle this problem?
>
> qt

How much memory are you using? A second alternative is to try to run it
under DOS. I originally ran the game under DOS with about 16 MB of
memory. More would have made it more enjoyable as the constant loading
when entering or leaving buildings got to be annoying.

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McGrandpa wrote:
> It's a DOS game. You need to allocate as much ram as possible to
> 'conventional' ram in the PIF file for the game. That is the 'BASE
> MEMORY'. IIRC, most of these games will run with an actual 538K base
> memory available. Have a look at your CONFIG.SYS file, see what drivers
> are loaded and if possible, have 'DEVICEHIGH= " instead of 'DEVICE= '.
> I think W98 also has memtest.exe, you can run that while in DOS mode to
> see how much allocated ram you have in all areas. HIH!
> McG.

Thanks everyone for your help, it has been remedied.
Simply omitting (renaming) the config.sys file helps.

qt