snowden@sequoia.cray.com (Jim Snowden) (02/07/91)
I am trying to run Ventura 2.0 under MS DOS 4.01 with a VGA monitor. I have cut down the FILES= and BUFFERS= entries in config.sys to the lowest I can (15,10 respectively), and this only just gives enough room for Ventura to run. The Professional extension won't go at all, even with /A=31 in the vpprof.bat file. There isn't anything else in config.sys; the only other thing taking up memory is MOUSE.COM. I have extended memory (1408 Kbytes) and can make EMS memory available with a driver (EMM.SYS). But that driver nicks away such a big chunk of normal memory that Ventura won't even load to be able to use the EMS memory. Please could someone give me some advice on how to make more memory available to VP. Is there some memory manager program that can make Ventura run in the extended memory area (windows??). I have a 286 PC. Thanks for your help!! -Jim Snowden
levericw@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu (Walden Leverich) (02/07/91)
JS> I am trying to run Ventura 2.0 under MS DOS 4.01 with a VGA monitor.
JS> I have cut down the FILES= and BUFFERS= entries in config.sys to the
JS> lowest I can (15,10 respectively), and this only just gives
JS> enough room for Ventura to run. The Professional extension won't
JS> go at all, even with /A=31 in the vpprof.bat file.
JS> There isn't anything else in config.sys; the only other thing taking
JS> up memory is MOUSE.COM.
Ventura has its own mouse driver. So if you configure Ventura for you
mouse you should be able to remove the mouse driver MOUSE.COM. This
should free up enough memory.
PS. Please forward any other replies you get via mail (i will see the
ones in News) to me. Thanks.
-Walden
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