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In article <817649013snz@musicman.demon.co.uk>
           scott@musicman.demon.co.uk "Scott Mordecai" writes:

> I use Smartdrive (with dos 6.2 and win 3.1) to speed things up a bit, even
> though I have a Cyrix M1, PCI EIDE, etc.  which I thought would be fast
> enough to cope without smartdrv... anyway...
> 
> I have just bought Rugby World Cup 1995.  All works fine, except if I have
> smartdrice loaded.  Even if I disable cacheing on C: the game still
> crashes.  Since I only really have a need for smartdrv when using Windows,
> is it possible to easily load/unload smartdrv when windows is run, or is
> there a 'Windows only' equivalent of smartdrv?
> 
> TIA,
> 
I think that this could be a lack of memory problem.  If you game requires
all the memory that you have, then smartdrv could cause a problem because
it reserves some space for its own use.

As to if need smartdrv, if you have 32-bit disk & file enabled then I believe
Windows 3.11 uses its own caching program called VCache (basically a 32-bit
version of smartdrv).  If you dig around in the control panel (or read the
help file) there should be some settings for it.  If this is the case, then
you do not need to run smartdrv at all.

If this is not the case, then you can stop smartdrv from loading in the
Autoexec.bat and instead just run from command prompt when required.

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Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk