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Hope anyone of you can help me.

I installed Pacfic War, the upgraded version 2.2 on my new PC. (it used to run fine on my old, also in win98).

Now i have a: Dell Pentium 3, 866Mhz, 128 ram
and a GeForce2 32Mb grapgics card. Sound: SoundblasterPro 3D.

After starting the game from the windows start screen, the music and introcuction happen fine, i get the game with the credits, but then the screen with the scenario selection does not appear. Instead i get an error message saying the an illegal operation happened at a certain adress like 001F:xxxx.

When trying to start from dos, with all drivers loaded, i get also all introcutuins, the scenario selection screen does not appear, instead just a black screen appears and the computer is locked.

How can i make the game work. I think it is here a kind of error with the videocard?

Christophe

ITs propably becasue you do not have enough DOS low memory...THere was a discussion back awhile on the PAcwar or WIR forum - could some kind soul dredge those up or give a short course in configuring LOW DOS RAM for the more recent Windows versions?

Try editing your config.sys file to match the following. Please note you can't do this for win2000 or win98ME. With win95 through 98SE this should give around 622,000 out of 655,000 conventional memory and will enable ems memory. Then run as a dos program under windows. I have no problem with pacwar 2.2 or WIR 3.0 using WIN98SE. Please note this setup assumes himem.sys and emm386.exe are in the Windows directory. If not, simply do a file search of your hard disk. Good Luck!

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\Himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE AUTO RAM MIN=0
FILESHIGH=25
DOS=UMB
DOS=HIGH
LASTDRIVEHIGH=Z

Thanks radical...benn too long away form DOS to recall all that ...