Re: Re: Help using ATI Radeon 9250 in Windows 98SE DOS Box - Found answer!

Windows 98 will not likely benefit from that much memory anyhow

Unless, you are manipulating huge images in Photoshop or something similar

Also Remember, 512M would have been a pretty good hard drive size in the 
days of DOS 6



E. Anschuetz wrote:

>I'm answering my own question in hopes that it helps
>others with similar problems.  It turns out that I had
>too much system memory!  There is a problem with a
>call to "dpmi_physical_address_mapping()" if memory is
>above 512M (at least on my machine).  My guess is that
>a virtual memory address becomes negative (when
>signed).  My temporary solution is to stick with 512M
>of memory.
>
>Now I have a new problem.  I have configured advmenu
>to  run fine on my arcade machine out of a Windows 98
>DOS box.  I can also run advmame alone without advmenu
>and it also runs games just fine on the arcade
>machine.  When I try to run an advmame game from
>within advmenu, the game starts to launch and then
>immediately returns to the menu.  Again, this all
>works fine from a pure DOS box.  Unfortunately, as far
>as I know, advmame does not have a -logsync option
>which really helped me debug the "too much memory"
>problem that I had before.  Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>
>--- "E. Anschuetz" <eanschuetz-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>>I just installed an ATI Radeon 9250 Video card.  I
>>would like to run AdvanceMAME from a DOS BOX in
>>Windows 98SE.  When I run the AdvanceCAB utilities
>>in
>>pure DOS (e.g. advv and advcfg), they work fine.  I
>>am
>>able to configure my video modes and run
>>AdvanceMAME. 
>>When I try to run AdvanceMenu from a DOS Box in
>>Windows 98SE, I get a stack dump.  I am using the
>>same
>>exact .rc file, so the only difference is between
>>running in pure DOS and a DOS box.  With my old set
>>up
>>(a VooDoo 3 card), I was able to run fine with a DOS
>>box from Windows 98.
>>
>>Has anybody else had a similar experience with any
>>other graphics cards?  Does anybody have a Radeon
>>9250
>>running AdvanceMAME from a DOS box rather than pure
>>DOS?  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.  I
>>have a few days to return the card (for a restocking
>>fee) and purchase a different card.
>>
>>Thanks for any help you can offer.
>>
>>Eric Anschuetz
>>
>>
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