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can any one help me ihave tryed to run pac/war get the titles credit screen then the screen goes blue with general protection fault i have d/loaded twice and also loaded off disc same result but war in russia runs no prob fault is00c0:00ffff and i dont know much about the running of computors

Originally posted by macnab:
can any one help me ihave tryed to run pac/war get the titles credit screen then the screen goes blue with general protection fault i have d/loaded twice and also loaded off disc same result but war in russia runs no prob fault is00c0:00ffff and i dont know much about the running of computors

Everyone else with this problem, that solved it anyway, was short of memory for PacWar, which is using quite a bit more than WIR. Are you running from the Matrix created shortcut, that loads in the new Intro. If so, try running straight off the .exe file and that will help. Otherwise, you will need to free up some of the first 640k memory you have, which depends on your OS. There are already a number of posts on doing this, or post you OS and there will be specific ideas for you to try.


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Rick Bancroft
Semper Fi

thanks rick just opened the file tryed the exe but no luck its a right git ive got plenty of space left 4.4 gig the blue screen i got said invalid op code thanks anyway mate ill keep trying as it looks agood game

Originally posted by macnab:
thanks rick just opened the file tryed the exe but no luck its a right git ive got plenty of space left 4.4 gig the blue screen i got said invalid op code thanks anyway mate ill keep trying as it looks agood game

The problem is that, as an old DOS game, it only uses the first 640k of memory, as opposed to hard drive space, or even remaining RAM you may have. When the blue screen of death was first coming up on these updates qutie awhile ago, it was related to the machines DOS mode having under about 610k of the 640k available, leading to the crash (which was an odd way to have it crash). I am fairly positive freeing memory in that first 640k will solve your problem, but it is tough on anything but Win95/98. What are you running?


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Rick Bancroft
Semper Fi

thanks again rick ihave got w/98 se the other mem that i have is 128 sd ram .32bit ati rage pro card of the short term mem i havent used much may be ill have to forget the pac war and concentrate on steel panthers which is an excellant sim some of the scenerios are brilliant thanks for your time and help ill see you on the zone bye mate

hi, there´s a simple solution for that problem. press F8 when your computer boots up. you´ll enter the win95/98/xx start-menu. there you should choose "single verification/conformation" (no.4) --> im from germany and i dont know how to translate that correctly . deny every line that follows EXCEPT the line with DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS. this should give you enough memory to run the game (it gave me 614 of 640k) but you´ll have to play without mouse.
have fun
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I have WIN98/SE, and memoryproblems after installing PacWar the first time. In any forum, i found following config.sys. Just execute sysedit and replace your config.sys with the following:

DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE AUTO RAM MIN=0
STACKS=0,0
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P

After that, the game should run fine.

Forgott to say: Restart after adding the config.sys

thanks every one ill try