El Fish Game Appears to Stop Responding at Startup

ID: Q134467

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you start the game, El Fish, by Maxis, you may receive the following message

EL-FISH started. Wait please...

and then the program appears to stop responding.

CAUSE

When you start the game, El Fish, the game tries to calibrate the speed of the computer. This calibration fails if you have a computer with a Pentium processor.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, run the game in MS-DOS mode. To do so, follow these steps:

In My Computer, using the right mouse button, click the El Fish icon, and then click Properties on the menu that appears.

In the El Fish Properties dialog box, click the Program tab, and then click the Advanced button.

In the Advanced Program Settings dialog box, make sure the MS-DOS mode box is checked.

Select the Use Current MS-DOS Configuration button.

Click the OK button in all the dialog boxes that appear.

If the game still does not start properly, contact the program vendor.

MORE INFORMATION

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Version : WINDOWS:95
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