Solution: If you do not have a sound card, and have selected NO SOUND CARD:

Solution: This error most often occurs on Windows 95 machines. This game is designed for DOS and will not work under 95 with the configuration in your system. You will want to shut down and restart in DOS mode to run the game.

Solution: This will happen most often when attempting to run the installation or setup from within a shell such as Windows. Make sure you have exited out of Windows and any menu programs before attempting to install or run the game.

Solution: This can happen when attempting to run the game from within Windows 95. Make sure that you shut down and restart in DOS mode before running the game. This can also occur when the sound settings are not precise, you may want to disable sound temporarily in the games setup to make sure that the sound is the problem you are encountering.

Solution: This will happen when the program does not have enough memory. Most often it will occur when attempting to run from Within a DOS prompt. You will want to Shut down into DOS and possibly make a boot-disk.

Solution: The game does create swap files during play and exiting the game incorrectly will keep these files open on your hard-drive. You will want to go to the games directory and type the following:

DEL *.SWP

Solution: This error happens when the save game has been corrupted. Make sure you have not installed the full release on top of the demo. In normal use this error message only shows up when there has been a disk problem.

Solution: This can happen on some computers with memory managers loading. You will want to create a boot-disk with nothing but the necessary drivers (no memory managers).

Solution: This game requires at least 8Mb of RAM and 10Mb of free HD space. Out of memory errors on this game can be either due to an improper memory allocation or low hard-drive space. You will want to create a boot-disk with no memory managers and double check that there is at least 10Mb of free HD space left.

Solution: When attempting an IPX connection between a DOS machine and a 95 machine, you need to make a change to the Network control panel in Win95. The default IPX protocol is different than the one expected by DOS. Win95 defaults its IPX Frame Type to Auto. Changing it to 802.3 may make it possible to communicate with machines running other system software. We would, however, recommend that you run both machines from within the DOS environment.

Solution 1: The slow speed is due to the swapping done by the virtual memory code. The problem is more the RAM than the CPU; your best solution is more RAM or less other stuff in RAM. That means making sure that EMM386 and SMARTDRV are off, among other things. Sound uses a lot of RAM, so turning it off will increase speed significantly. The game was tested extensively on 486 machines.

Solution 2: Performance of the game can be improved through the use of a small hard disk cache -- 128 kilobytes or so -- if you have enough RAM to dedicate for it. Larger cache sizes are not necessary. However, on some systems, the disk cache can interfere with the proper operation of the virtual memory system in the game. If you experience crashes while running the game, disable all disk cache software and try again.

Solution 3: The CONQUEST.BAT file contains one line which sets up virtual memory. When running on machines with 12 megabytes or more, virtual memory can be disabled by deleting or commenting out the line which contains the SET DOS4GVM command. This will result in a slight performance increase. If the game crashes or reports OUT OF MEMORY errors, you should put back this line or reconfigure your machine to make more memory available.

Solution 1: Try turning off the sound; most people find that that solves the problem.

Solution 2: Another alternative is to copy CNWSNDC.WAD from the CD-ROM to the hard disk.

Solution 3: Be sure all caching utilities are off, and EMM386 is not loaded.

Solution 4: If under Windows 95, try to adjust the Windows 95 CD-ROM cache settings. The system can be set to optimize its performance for a variety of hardware configurations. Changing the numbers may clear up the problem (there is no one fixed setting that applies to all makes and models of computers and CD-ROM drives; the proper settings must be determined empirically for each individual machine).

Solution: If you choose Custom Game, you can set the amount of turns to play. A custom game will also give you an option of Unlimited Turns.

Solution: Rather than set the game to unlimited, you will need to set the turn count to a high number such as 300.