rec.autos.simulators

You're kidding, right?  Not even one MEG!?  The minimum is four megs.  I
highly doubt it will run with 617K.  

But the problem is probably still what Mike said , it takes 4 mb. to
run ICR & if you don't have it, it won't work.  The amount of
conventional left should make no difference with DOS/4GW since it is a
32-bit protected mode program, & even though I can't think of how
right now I beleive that 32-bit code can work through the memory
problems that the 16-bit programs have with the conventional memory.  
That's my $0.0000000000000000021 worth :-)

Lare

Indycar is a 32-bit program, and it uses a 32-bit flat memory model,
I.E. it can address up to 4Gig of memory without any swapping. The
maximum amount of memory Indy _will_ use is 4MB + more for a longer
replay.

Before it can activate the 32-bit protected mode, it must load a DOS
extender, which is in this case DOS/4GW. DOS/4GW requires about 520k
of free conventional memory to start, after which it doesn't matter
how much conventional memory you have, as Indy is using the memory
directly, without swapping it from extended to conventional.

So if you have, say, a 4MB PC, and have loaded smartdrive and allocated
1MB of memory to it, you have only 3MB of momory left, and Indy won't
start because it requires 4MB of free total system RAM. rem the smartdrv
in your autoexec (and other TSR's possibly) and you should get it to
work.

btw. kick that QEMM out of your machine too, DOS/4GW doesn't like it at
all. Don't load an expanded memory emulator at all if possible, as EMM386
bugs too with DOS/4GW (on some machines)

Tommi Pajari

        Gee, and if you listen to M$ and their Windoze 95 adds, you would
think that 32-bit stuff just came to Intel....   :)

bryon

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