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Hail to himemX.exe to allow run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 30.03.2008, 16:35
(edited by RayeR on 30.03.2008, 16:45)

I know this is a DOS forum but maybe someone use Win9X too as a DOS multitasker :)
Maybe you know that Win9x has some several memory limits which makes you sick when you try to run them on machine equiped with more than 512MB. In case you use 512-1024MB the help is quite easy. Just needs to limit
MaxPhysPage=40000
and
MaxFileCache=261120
in system.ini to not overflow vcache buffers and everythings go fine.
But before few days I extend RAM to 2GB and got serious problems windows did't respected memory limitation by MaxPhysPage=40000 and it hanged during boot. I was messing with vcache and physpage values quite long time till I was able to boot but system was very unstable and some features didn't work.

I also got idea that I can eat 1GB of XMS by XMSDSK but this didn't help.
There's also a commercial patch for 20$ which should solve it.

But then I remember times when use QEMM 9.0 which cannot see more than 256MB - good ram limiter but Win98SE cannot boot with QEMM - QEMM crashes.

And finally I remember HimemX 3.32 on Japhets site. This XMS manager has the magic /MAX=xmssizekb parameter. So I limit XMS to 1GB and try to boot Win98 and viola it boots without any problems and seems to work same as when I have only 1GB physical memory. Many thanks for this feature which may seem weirt to other users who wonder why someone needs to trash out a gig of RAM but sometims it's really usefull. Of course I will utilize entire 2GB under XP and Linux and maybe DOS :)

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Complete thread:

• Hail to himemX.exe to allow run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 30.03.2008, 16:35 (Announce)
  • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Rugxulo, 31.03.2008, 00:50
    • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Steve, 31.03.2008, 01:36
      • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 31.03.2008, 03:05
        • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Japheth, 31.03.2008, 03:33
          • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 31.03.2008, 12:24
            • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Japheth, 31.03.2008, 21:30
              • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 01.04.2008, 13:13
                • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Japheth, 01.04.2008, 13:29
                  • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - RayeR, 01.04.2008, 21:19
                    • crazy himem - no need for /max - RayeR, 02.04.2008, 03:56
                      • crazy himem - no need for /max - Japheth, 03.04.2008, 11:09
                        • crazy himem - no need for /max - RayeR, 03.04.2008, 12:10
        • run Win98SE on 2GB RAM machine! - Rugxulo, 02.04.2008, 02:59