Expanded Memory Problems in WIN XP!!!!!!

[prabhath 0]

Okay, so I've tried everything for a lot of DOS games that use Expanded Memory...

 

I've tried the Memory tabs, the VDMSound thing, everything.. I now think it's a problem with XP itself.

 

Here's what's wrong: No matter what I set my expanded and extended memory to, I get the following output when I run the the following command in my autoexec.nt file that I'm using for my PIFs:

 

MEM /C > C:\ memory.txt

 

Here's the Output:

 

[...some text clipped...]

 

Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 625184 (610.5K)

Largest executable program size : 599168 (585.1K)

Largest available upper memory block : 24128 ( 23.6K)

 

33554432 bytes total contiguous extended memory

0 bytes available contiguous extended memory

16628736 bytes available XMS memory

MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

 

The "0 bytes" available never changes.. for some reason, the total memory is all I can control, but %&$#ing XP doesn't give any to the game. How can I fix this??

 

I'm running:

WIN XP Pro - SP1

IBM Thinkpad T30 - 1.6Ghz

512MB Ram

etc.. etc.. I can't possibly be out of memory or anything. I just think Bill Gates is doing something funny.

 

Thanks,

Prabhath

(if possible, please send email to me if you have a fix)

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