#Animator Pro and QEMM
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I have never done what you describe, and have always had all resolution modes
described in my earlier message available to me. As a matter of fact, I still
have them available when I boot up with EMM386 instead of QEMM386. So the
question I am posing is: what is QEMM doing to my memory that these modes are
not available and how can I fix it? My card does not need drivers to be able
to access vesa.drv vesa 1.2 options in the Anipro screen size/drivers dialogue
box. And QEMM has already been the culprit in super funky boot up and icons,
fixed by excluding a portion of memory from stealth mapping.
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
Well sir,
I don't know what to tell you. The hardware on my video card does not support
certain modes, such as 640x480x256, 640x400x256 and so on. All the VGA modes
are supported by the hardware, but the SVGA modes need the Vesa tsr. Without
it, I can only get Anipro and 3ds to run in their default mode of 320x200x256.
With or without any memory manager.
Perhaps your video card does support these extended modes, perhaps not. Chances
are, emm386 is not detecting a certain block of memory as being usable for high
ram, so it skips it, leaving it open for your video card to use. QEMM on the
other hand, is finding it and turning it into high ram, which is then causing a
memory conflict between your video card and whatever QEMM stuffs in there. Many
hi-res cards require this area of additional memory to run properly. The area
to which I am referring is b000-b7ff.
With my Viper, I have to exclude everything from a000 to c7ff, and I can't let
the page frame sit on top of the video rom like Stealth mode wants it to.
I do sincerely hope you get your problem solved. However, I can offer no more
advice based on my experiences until I know a little something more about your
setup.
Have a good day.
Thanks for your help, and the further description of your setup. I think I'm
on the right track trying to see where QEMM is taking BIOS and upper memory
space away from my card.
Thanks,
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)