The recent TIE Fighter CD thread gave me an urge to play it, so I installed (fully) the game, but when I try to run it, it starts to run, but then it exits out to a exited DOS window that says: STACK OVERFLOW! (with the exclamation). Anyway, what does this mean and how in the gosh darned heck (no cussin' here, Tal) can I get the game to work?

I found this on a site:

Q) Stack Overflow..what can I do to prevent this?

A) You'll need to open up you autoexec.bat file, found in the root directory of your boot up drive (should be c:\ ). Enter in this line STACKS=0,0. Save and reboot. This will help. You should also open the TIE before an internet connection is establish or large amounts of programs have been opened and close. This will improve your chances of being able to play without having to exit to DOS.

Not sure if it will work or not, but it's worth a try.

I take it you're playing the old collector's editon cdrom.

I know I've gotten it to work under windows 98se, and not in real dos mode. I was using a sidewinder2 on it (usb joysticks rock!). Actually, I believe I got it to work under winme, but the sound was absolutely nasty.

Unless you hack Me (which, if that's what you're using, then you should hack it), that stacks command isn't going to take effect. Me just writes over the config.sys file.

Repost with your os, and I'll tell you what your config.sys, msdos.sys, and autoexec.bat filez should look like.

Windows me, but EJ and WF, how can I do all the stuff you just said?

[ August 28, 2002, 00:30: Message edited by: SlimShogun ]

Not sure how you'd go about doing that, I just found it on a site *shrug*

Oh, man.

Wicked.

Well, hmmmmm. It uses the dos extender, which means you need not configure ems. You just have to get the 565k or whatever free.

You'll get better results if you hack winme, and configure your config.sys.

There's a winme hack out on the web. Hangon...
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330,11360,00.html

There were you can get the hack and read about it.

After that, you have to change around your config.sys to free up the memory you'll be needing.

OK. I downloaded the "Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows ME v1.3." Now what do I do? Do I follow all the instructions on the site where I dl'ed the patch? Also, if I screw this up (or even if I don't), how will this alter my system and is there potential for disaster?

[ August 28, 2002, 07:10: Message edited by: SlimShogun ]

Well SlimShougan it looks like you have a real problem on your hands. What you need to do is open up your computer, take a gun, and SHOOT THE BLACK MAN WHO IS INSIDE PLAYING TIRCKS. Thats the only way your gonna resolve htis problem. I hope this helps, good luck my brother...

Uh, Blackman.

I followed your advice, got meself a shotgun a shot THE BLACK MAN WHO IS INSIDE PLAYING TIRCKS

He´s dead, but so is my frigging monitor, got any advice for that??

Can anyone help me?

Well, last time you posted, you were thinking about doing the hack. Did you hack it?

If I do the hack, is there potential for damage to my computer in any way?

Ummmmmmm.

There's a potential for a massive solar flare to cause the voltage regulating system at your local nuclear power plant to misinterpret the 300+ unit monitors around the steam turbine, causing a massive power spike which is bolstered by the other gas powered plants hooked into the power grid, causing a spontaneous discharge of every capacitor/transformer at your local sub station, which in turn sends in excess of 10,000 joules of energy (think 25kilowatts) to your surge protector, which instantly melds the power coupling shut and causes your cdrom to spinup to well in excess of 18,000rpm, which splinters the cdrom in the drive, lodging the shards in your knee just like a fragmentation grenade in a hooch, causing you to call 911 and have an ambulance transport you to the emergency room, where the orthopaedic surgeon on duty is called in to remove the 1000+ shards imbedded in your patella, and fit you with a replacement which will cause you to limp in agony for the rest of your life.

Other than that, anything you do can cause your system to become unstable. I did the hack once a while back, and it didn't cause any problems. But I never could get that game to work properly (sam and max, the cdrom version) with sound, so I gave up.

Got the same problem as Slim has, but I´m running on green electricity (treehugger!!), so, does that mean I won´t be having a problem with the CDROM - 911 thing :D :D

uh, nice to see, what windows made out of all the computer offsprings *g*

no hard feelings, shogun, but if i were you, i´d rather look for a used pentium I or II to play it, along with a nice sb awe64 and win98.

should be easier for you, instead of trying to hack your win me without basic knowledge (i just assume ;) of good old ms-dos. in the end even these dos patches are no guarantuee for a stable running dos in win me, let alone all the other stuff you´d have to watch in order to gain enough free memory and so on...

the potential damage you can do to your system is not as worse as a good bootdisk should be able to fix. the data should be still at the old place ;)

[ September 09, 2002, 15:46: Message edited by: ettercap ]

Hhmm...I don't know if this tutorial might help: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/help/oldonnew/. Basically, the turorial helps you in making old games to work on new PC models.