How to conserve conventional memory?
Conventional Memory is the first 640k of your RAM. This is the space where you load drivers and the game executable. If you type MEM /C /P in DOS, it will display how much of each type of memory has free space, which programs may be loaded and how much memory each one is using. If too many programs or DOS settings are being used, the game may not have enough conventional memory to launch. If this is the case, you may need to be more economical in how the memory is spent. DOS requires 18k to load. If you load HIMEM.SYS, you should use the DOS=HIGH line. This will place the 18k of DOS into the HMA. EMM386 is a very useful memory manager for conserving conventional memory. EMM386 will create the Upper Memory Blocks. Some drivers can be loaded into the UMB rather than taking up space in conventional memory. For this to happen, you first need to have 2 lines in the config.sys that read: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM 3072 I=B700-B7FF DOS=HIGH, UMB This line will create about 160k of free
