Ultima 7 Part1 and 2 are extremely mem hungry and were a pain to configure back in the days, because they had their own memory manager and that didn't allow for emm386 to be used, so no way to load anything into upper memory (until UMBPCI came around 😀).

yeah, u7... they needed something like 610kb?

as a sidenote, umbpci does not seem to work on my ASUS 4-SAW sis based mobo 🙁

I don't know how much they needed exactly but it was probably similar to Dangerous Dave 3, they needed less with disabled sound.

Anything that just ABUSES the Pie 3D GCS engine (most amateur FPS games are unrealistic on memory requirements)

Falcon 3.0. (at least 600kb or 600,000+ bytes - forgotten which requirement.)

Falcon 3.0 is even worse with add-ons. According to Atari's support page, 604 K is required with the Hornet add-on:

http://www.atari.com/support/na/faq/falcon30_pc.asp

Eh I never had a problem getting enough memory for a game. It was definitely more difficult for people who 1) didn't know how to deal with the boot files 2) had hardware with huge drivers/TSRs. SCSI and certain sound cards (i.e. AWE*) come to mind.

Fighting with config/autoexec were part of the fun though for me. I would just sit around reading ways to get the most from upper memory. In junior high/high school sometimes I would have people print out their boot files and I'd rewrite them with boot menus or whatever while eating lunch in the cafeteria. 😁 It was just another puzzle to solve you know.

Malik wrote:

Falcon 3.0. (at least 600kb or 600,000+ bytes - forgotten which requirement.)

2nd vote for Falcon 3.0

Zone 66. Amazingly enough, the problems I always had running this game on an old Pentium 120 weren't from my forgetting to disable EMS/XMS - it was the fact that my sound drivers just took too much conventional memory. And, well, without sound, the game wasn't really that enjoyable. =P

Lands of Lore; if I remember correctly, 620k if one selected SB Pro for digitized speech&sound FX and GM for music.