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I've searched the site for other cases like this, and no one has gotten an answer to my very same problem. Everytime I run Ped Xing's Quest or any other DQB related game that uses EMS, I get an errror message of NO EMM DRIVER DETECTED. Oh, that's easy,

just go to the properties and the memory tab and set EMS memory to 16384 or AUTO and that should work...But it doesn't.

Edit the file called _Default.PIF and that should work...But it doesn't work.

Custom edit CONFIG.NT to say EMM=RAM...Either I'm not typing EMM=RAM in right or that doesn't work either.

I then tried using a DOS emulator program call VDMsound...that doesn't work either.

More information: I've run other games that use EMS (Day of the Tentacle for example) and it runs fine, and Ped Xing's Quest also runs fine on Windows 2000.

Has anyone ever run Ped Xing's Quest on Windows XP, and if so please tell me how you did it.

Michael Dowling
Typosoft

Ped Xing won't work on XP even if you get EMS working because it uses DS4QB2, which is incompatible with XP. sorry.

ehhh, christ, you people. I tried it and it works fine. Only thing that didn't work was ds4qb++ otherwise it all works fine when you trun all sound and music off.

you people? anyways, do you have any special configuration for your dos prompt on your computer? I can't get the nosound version to work either though? I've tried everything that I found on the internet, but nothing can get it to detect the EMM driver. Why? How do you configure your dos box?

It doesn't work for me in Win98 and Win2000 and WinXP

I have 512 MB DDR RAM, and I've checked the EMM ID's in memory, which are:

Win98: A: and some very strange characters
Win2000: EMMQXXX0
WinXP: not tested yet

In Win98, when I add DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS and DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM D=64 it says, expanded memory functions not available.

What's your HMA look like? You may have to put the pageframe in conventional memory.

HMA? How can I get to see the HMA?

MSD

Here is what my config.nt and autoexec.nt files look like:

config.nt: (minus the lines of REM)
dos=high, umb
device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys
emm=ram
files=60

Autoexec.nt:
@echo off
REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe
REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir
REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3

I took out most of the REM lines so it's easier to see my settings. If anyone knows what I can do to get an emm driver to be detected.