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From: chaz@chinet.chi.il.us (Charlie Kestner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Memory needed in DV vs. memsize shown via LOADHI /GS
Keywords: desqview qemm loadhi memory
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.002923.12045@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 Jun 91 00:29:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.020113.28578@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991Jun16.020113.28578@midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:
>I just setup a DV window for playing the game Klondike (A really nice
>solotaire game; much better than the one that comes with WIN3, BTW)
>
>To try to figure out how much memory to allocate to the DV window, I ran
>KL in Big DOS window using LOADHI /GS.  I ran the game (played a full game)
>and LOADHI came back saying it required about 174K  (0K resident)  So I
>figured I'd leave a bit of slack and set the window size in DV (on the
>first page of Add/Change a Program) to 190.  But when I ran it, it came
>back with "Klondike: Program too big to fit in memory".  Well, some
>number of tries later, I determined that the magic number is somewhere
>between 250 & 275K  (I.e., it works with it set to 275 [which is where I
>am leaving it] but fails at 250K)
>
>Why the discrepancy?  (I could understand a small discrepancy, but 100K???)
>I had been given to understand that using LOADHI /GS like this *was* the
>approved method of figuring out how much mem a program used.  (BTW,
>yes, I set the "Program....." field to KLONDIKE.EXE, so as to run it
>directly, rather than via COMMAND.COM)
[additional stuff whacked out...]

  It displays graphics information?
  Perhaps your answer lies in your examining the section of the Desqview
manual (Changing A Program's Information) that refers to allocating
screen memory.
  In that section, it mentions that Desqview will need more memory when
it must manage graphics pages.