I've also tried putting the mode to MAX Ram on startup and changing the fdconfig.sys (which didn't help). So is there any way to fix this or something?Memory type Total Used Free --------------------------------------------------- Conventional 638k | 29k | 610k Upper 96k | 27k | 69k Reserved 289k | 289k | 0k Extended(xms) 583,200k | 552k | 522,648k
FreeDos, low conventional memory
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FreeDos, low conventional memory
Hi, i installed FreeDos today wanting to play some games like doom and duke nukem 3d however when i tried to play doom i was confused to see how slow it was. So i typed in "mem" (as you need like 640k conventional memory to play games smooth) and i got theese results:
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Re: FreeDos, low conventional memory
Even on a physical machine running FreeDOS you won't be able to get to the point of having all 640KB of conventional memory free. There are things such as the interrupt vector table that can't be moved.TheMonkeyLlama wrote:So i typed in "mem" (as you need like 640k conventional memory to play games smooth)
What you are more likely running into is a problem with virtual machines and games not making great bed fellows. Games typically want full unrestricted access to fairly high performing hardware. The virtual machine, and particularly the vGPU, are never going to give you that.
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Re: FreeDos, low conventional memory
Can you explain how much conventional memory you expected to see in DOS?
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Re: FreeDos, low conventional memory
Ok, Thanks! I think I'm going for dosbox emulation if so.andyp73 wrote:Even on a physical machine running FreeDOS you won't be able to get to the point of having all 640KB of conventional memory free. There are things such as the interrupt vector table that can't be moved.TheMonkeyLlama wrote:So i typed in "mem" (as you need like 640k conventional memory to play games smooth)
What you are more likely running into is a problem with virtual machines and games not making great bed fellows. Games typically want full unrestricted access to fairly high performing hardware. The virtual machine, and particularly the vGPU, are never going to give you that.
-Andy.