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From: al093@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dennis Shaffer)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: T7G.........ERROR-FILE IS NOT A VDX FILE ?????
Date: 17 Feb 1994 21:59:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Reply-To: al093@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dennis Shaffer)
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I get the message every time.
I tried reloading the game 6 different times to no avail.
I get the opening screen with the ouiji board and as soon as I select start
new game...the music starts...the cd spins...I'm thrown back to the dos
prompt and I see....Error:file is not a vdx file.  What gives..

What I have....a 386dx40.  Eteq chipset, AMI bios dated 12/12/91, 8 meg of
ram, panasonic 562 2x drive, stereo fx 16 bit stereo sound card, 212m free
on my harddrive.....

What i have tried to fix it with.....I configured dos 6.2 with a seperate
starup menu which has himemm.sys loaded and emm386 not loaded(tried with
and without), no other drivers other than my mouse, loaded the new version
of v that came with the zip patch file, loaded my video vesa driver.
tried everything high, low.

I have 7 megs of available xms.
575k free with everything loaded low.
643k free with everything loaded high and Qemm handling my upper mem.

I called tech support and was told to remove my smartdrv, which I did and
it still doesn't work.

I'm at my wits end.

Dennis