win98SE and 1GB RAM:is it possible?

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 6:11 am

doe win98SE supports 1GB of RAM?
is it necessary some particular setting/patch?

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:11 am

As I know 98se only supports up to 512mb.
That´s why I installed XP.
But maybe there is a way but I don´t know it.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:37 am

I have heard of a patch that will allow you more that 512 of RAM, unfortunately I don't remember were I so this article.

The best you can do is to go the Microsoft database, just ask the question to their inmense database and you'll get the answer. If they have something, great, if they don't, don't give up, and keep searching into specialized Win 98SE forums. You'll also find a patch for larger HDs. Good luck!

Post by **garyb** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 1:49 pm

it will if you limit the swapfile.i'm not really sure if it truly utilizes all that ram properly,though.it's my understanding that 98 truly only uses 512,but i did have 1g in my computer with 98 with no problems.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:04 am

For win98 with more than 512MB RAM :-

START then RUN, type in sysedit, in system.ini add the following lines:-

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=512000

Better of using win2000 and up if you want to use > 512MB RAM.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:22 pm

You missed something and rounded off. It should be like this:

[vcache]
MinFileCache=524288
MaxFileCache=524288

The numbers come from multiplying 512 with 1024.

Post by **garyb** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:20 pm

this is in the original cw manual. also my bad about the swapfile,of course it's vcache.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 5:41 pm

woops! what was I thinking? I should have actually checked my vcache settings before posting.
Immanuel is absolutely correct.

The jury is still out how reliably win98 runs with mem > than 512MB though.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:43 am

People who did it with the system.ini tweak says it is stable.

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:15 am

Win98 runs with 1Gb, no problem. Vcache imposes the limitation here. But, the vcache settings presented in this thread should be subtracted by the AGP aperture in your system. So if you have 128Mb AGP aperture, and 512 is the limit, the vcache should not exceed 512-128=384Mb. (MaxFileCache=393216)
Cheers,
Rob