makeshyft Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 (edited) Ok, I've never really tried installing old games on my computer and thought I'd like to play some old adventure/puzzle games for a laugh. When I try to play some of them though I get this message: You need 1728 more bytes of free memory available to run this game. If you have any resident software loaded please remove it and try again. This is probably a stupid question. Can anyone help me? Edited April 19, 2005 by makeshyft Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/188783-old-games/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZAZEL Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Specs? What operating system are you running? ~az Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/188783-old-games/?do=findComment&comment=2770160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshyft Posted April 19, 2005 Author Share Posted April 19, 2005 I'm running Windows XP. 256meg DDR ram. 80G HD. Basically the computer is like a year old and shouldn't have any dramas with this. I just can't figure it out. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/188783-old-games/?do=findComment&comment=2770173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
magical_trevor Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Right click on the program and then go to properties, then choose the compatibility tab, and have a try with messing about with the settings, putting it in compatibility mode with Windows 95 usually works for me.... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/188783-old-games/?do=findComment&comment=2770376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samutz Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 If it's an old dos game, you should look at DOSBox. I had to use it to get some old King's Quest games to run under XP. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/188783-old-games/?do=findComment&comment=2770433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshyft Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 Ok, figured it out, all you have to do is change EMS and XMS memory settings to none in the properties of the file. Thanks for your help anyways guys. Lockage please. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/188783-old-games/?do=findComment&comment=2772425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barguast Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Closed on Request Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/188783-old-games/?do=findComment&comment=2772477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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