program too big to fit in memory?

Question

I downloaded a game that is like 800mb in size when i try to open it the exe file it says program too big to fit in memory in the dos window now i have 512 in ram it is a laptop cant put any more on there allso i have windows xp the game is doom is there any way to make it play or to put the file on a cd so it would run on the cd like the real game or some thing like that

Answer 1

try to open it in windows first. It may be an installer program. After it installs, then you may be able to open the .exe for the game in DOS. As the other person said, windowsXP etc... doesnt support the old DOS, in fact it doesnt really have DOS at all, its just a shell running in windows and isnt the same. Basically, the program may not work, unless you have an old computer with earlier windows on it (like windows 98).

Answer 2

I can't imagine a game that is 800 MB in size that opens in a DOS window. They just didn't make them that big. Something in your question does not add up. Did you try just opening under windows?

DOS games had to fit in 640K of memory. You heard that right, Kilobytes, 0.64 megs of RAM. They did use extended memory, there were special drivers for that. None of that works under XP.

Sorry, I would have to look at exactly what you are trying to do to give better advice.

-Dio

Answer 3

can not grant you with a customary way of doing that, sorry. relies upon on what you're attempting to do, what your working gadget is, and a bunch of alternative factors. Oh, and FYI - an EXE report isn't inevitably a "DOS" report.