Windows 9598seme Ram Limitation Patch

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Apr 20, 2013 - I patched both 98SE and ME to run on a machine with 1GB of RAM. To limit Win98 to not run with the installed memory in the computer. Aug 20, 2010 Windows 98 was never tested or designed for more than 512mb of ram. There are patches and 'workarounds' for this, but youd be better of.

I am building a windows98se box based on the following. Abit nf7-s Athlon XP barton 3000 1GB DDr1 pc2700 On board sound ata 80GB IDE ata IDE dvd rom ATI 9700pro agp Holy shit to hell! This windows 98se sucks ass! I found out windows98se is limited to 512mb ram.so I downgraded the ram to 256mb. I got it all installed and booted with all the good drivers. It works well and plays my jane's simulators and star wars.

Problem is.If I add more memory.weird things happen like transferring files from usb to HD then it freezes the OS. Most of these problems stopped when I downgraded the ram from 1gb to 256mb.Am I stuck at 512mb? I check for vcache inputs and other tweeks,,,,nothing works.does windows ME have the same problems?

I installed SP1 for 98se.seems to help. The reason, the old games need and run on dos.I want a reliable dedicated DOS game box using the actual hardware. One of the games seem to speed up a lot.I do have a slower processor I can install an XP 1.2 instead of XP 3000.

Help would be appreciated. Older RAM and motherboards were very finicky and didn't always play well together. It used to be a near-requirement that all your DIMMs be of the same make and model (and even then sometimes you had to make sure they had the same batch of chips on them). You can try underclocking your RAM and that may help some. If you have access to some other DIMMs, try shuffling them around. If you have games that sped up, there was a program that helped out with that, but for the life of me I can't recall what it was. A slower CPU probably won't help too much with that.

Windows 98 isn't limted to 512mb; like all 32-bit OS's it can address up to 4GB (2GB for applications, 2GB for the system arena). However there's a bug in the file cache that causes it to consume up to the full 800MB it's limited to for it's cache when there's more than 512MB. Since you also have an AGP card, it reserves 128MB (or even 256MB) of the address space for its graphics ram. Leaving you with almost nothing in the system arena for actually doing OS tasks. (like copying files or creating new VM sessions for DOS applications).

Try adding this line to your system.ini file under the [VCACHE] section. Windows 98 isn't limted to 512mb; like all 32-bit OS's it can address up to 4GB (2GB for applications, 2GB for the system arena). However there's a bug in the file cache that causes it to consume up to the full 800MB it's limited to for it's cache when there's more than 512MB. Since you also have an AGP card, it reserves 128MB (or even 256MB) of the address space for its graphics ram. Leaving you with almost nothing in the system arena for actually doing OS tasks.

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(like copying files or creating new VM sessions for DOS applications). Try adding this line to your system.ini file under the [VCACHE] section. Windows 98 isn't limted to 512mb; like all 32-bit OS's it can address up to 4GB (2GB for applications, 2GB for the system arena).

However there's a bug in the file cache that causes it to consume up to the full 800MB it's limited to for it's cache when there's more than 512MB. Since you also have an AGP card, it reserves 128MB (or even 256MB) of the address space for its graphics ram. Leaving you with almost nothing in the system arena for actually doing OS tasks.

(like copying files or creating new VM sessions for DOS applications). Try adding this line to your system.ini file under the [VCACHE] section. Update Notice: If anyone wants to personally take on this challenge.