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exetazo : in the first line of your config.sys you have: DEVICEhigh=HIMEM.SYS try changing that to : devicehigh=c:\windows\himem.sys In your autoexec.bat you have: SET BLASTER= try changing it so that the blaster command does have some settings, e.g. : SET BLASTER=A200 I5 D1 H5 T4...

Have you thought of dual-booting your xp machine? Running win95 or 98 alongside it, with the boot menu at start up time so that you can still play priv2? I dual boot my xp machine with win95, so I can play priv 1 and a couple other dos only games.

I think the windows version is the deluxe one, the one that works with directx and all that. The original trouble I had with XP (and hence why i had to use that workaround) was that on installing it the game kept telling me insufficient disk space, when i had about 3 gig on the machine...

What I have been able to do is use that windows millenium patch to get pure-dos mode (you hack the io.sys, command.com and some other system file). Unfortunately, for some reason, himem.sys will not load as another "mem manager" is already present, so I use a boot disk. That is for the dos...

Hi, I have had an annoying problem with privateer 2 under windows 98se recently, where it came up with the error "the instruction at 200015cf referenced memory at fffffff. The memory could not be read from. Click ok to terminate the application." I tried doing lots of things, like...

Re: Re: Sound problem with Privateer 1 and soundblaster 1024 How do i edit the config.sys to only have 16 meg utilised in emm386.exe? Is it device=c:\windows\emm386.exe 16384 ram ? Thanks for the help chaps!

oops, after reading a lot of the other threads, it seems like this problem is just one with the sound blaster live. better get out the old sound card then!

Hi, Im getting sound problems with priv 1 and my sound blaster live 1024 card (as its known in the UK). I have a dual boot machine and running priv through dos with the relevant setup in the autoexec.bat file. The strangest thing is, another of my fave oldies, transport tycoon deluxe (also...