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I install the xgine version of the game and use dos box. The game run well exept when I seach for some dead body where I get a virtual memory problem. Someone else get this problem?

Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file." Unless you have very little physical memory (RAM) in your system, this message is indicative of a buggy application with a memory leak.

A memory leak is a common problem caused by poorly written or poorly debugged applications where they continually use more and more memory until you shut down the program, end the process manually or restart Microsoft Windows.

Virtual memory, also known as a page file or swap file, is a file on your hard drive (C:\pagefile.sys by default) that Windows and applications use in addition to physical memory (RAM) as needed. The default and recommended size of this file is 1.5 times the amount of physical memory. Virtual memory is the sum of physical memory and the page file. So if your computer has 512 MB RAM, it will have a 768 MB page file by default, for a total of 1.25 GB of physical + virtual memory.

I'm not positive if this applies to DOS; I'll have to do some research.

Memory > 1 MB is managed by HIMEM and EMM386 in DOS. Depending on the version of those drivers, you can get max 32 MB or 256 MB of EMS and max 16, 64 or 1024 MB of XMS. DOS extenders allow programs to actually RUN in such memory areas, while other DOS programs will just
copy data to and from the extra "managed" memory (e.g. RAMDISKS and disk caches do that).

I have stop triying to play the game on my recent computer. I now shearching for get a older computer whit dos integrated. Does Redguard will work whit all the computer of 1995+ or I need to check other caracteristics?