Got A Problem?!

  This section is intended as a trouble-shooting guide; It tries to give you
some advice if you cannot get a program to work.

- Your joystick can't be calibrated. A lot of windows games don't have an option
  for calibrating your joystick. This has to be done from the Windows control
  panel. Select Settings->Control Panel from the Windows Start menu and double
  click Joystick/Game Controllers and then calibrate it.
- The game you're trying to run needs DirectX (5), install it.
- Some games require "Z" technology, ie your Z drive has to be
  available for SUBSTing. Put LASTDRIVE=Z in your CONFIG.SYS to fix this.
  Make sure SUBST.EXE is in your path (eg. your DOS-directory).
- Trying to run a program which requires 16 MB of memory when you've
  only got 8 doesn't make sense.
- If you're low on diskspace, try removing some files.  Some
  programs require some free diskspace to fiddle around with.
- Some programs needs a huge amount of memory and might not run if
  you have restricted your virtual memory settings or are low on
  diskspace for the drive that holds your swapfile. Change it in
  the Control Panel (System->Performance->Virtual Mewmory).
- Try increasing the FILES= statement in your CONFIG.SYS.
- Remove SMARTDrive, (when running DOS mode).
- Put the WINDOWS-directory (and WINDOWS\COMMAND) in your path.
- Try using different startup-files (CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT)!
  Here are some suggestions:
    - Change memory-managers.  Change QEMM to EMM386 and vice versa.
      (or better yet, remove them! as modern software will easily
      run without them)
    - Use only HIMEM.SYS.
    - Try using no startup-files at all (clean boot).  To do this,
      push Left-Shift at bootup.
    - Remove all TSRs from your startup-files (or at least the ones
      you don't really need).  Quite often they cause a conflict.
- If a network is not required, disable it.
- Remember to setup your soundcard properly!  If you get it wrong,
  it might just crash your machine.  Many sound-setup programs offer
  some sort of auto-detection; However, if this process crashes your
  machine you have to set the parameters manually.
- Some DOS games moan something about VESA 2.0 or a linear-frame buffer
  if your video card is not up to it try installing a software VESA
  driver, like Scitech Display Doctor, it may also boost your game
  performance under DOS.
- If a Windows game won't run try using a diffent resolution/color depth
  numerous older Windows games insist on having a 256 color display,
  no more, no less.
- Get the latest drivers for your hardware, especially your
  video and audio card. Mostly found on their manufacturors Web site.
- Make sure your DirectX is working properly.
- If some cracked game complains about needing the CD, check if there
  is a CD-Rom in your CD drive, if so remove it and try again. If not
  put one in and try again! If this still doesn't help it might require
  MSCDEX to be loaded and it isn't.


Please keep in mind that "warez" cds like the Fates are not tested in any
way, therefore none of the programs are guarenteed to work.  If you purchased
a warez cd specifically for one program and it does not work, we will do our
best to compensate you for your purchase.

- NUMbers Crew