Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 10:03

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by SRQ

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I doubt it, because you'd have to somehow initialize the ramdrive and keep it there before Windows actually booted all the way, which means you have to do it from DOS, which means you're going to probably have weird issues with it in Windows itself. I can't name anything in specific that wouldn't …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 11:02

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by Trank

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Go into Windows 98, run msconfig. Under general hit advanced then go down to limit memory to whatever value you want (512mb). Open your PC up and add the amount of ram you want. My guess it should work just fine. I have never tried this so I'm just theorizing. If Windows 98 gives you any trouble …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 11:22

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by Roman78

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@Trank, ill try that, I think that's the same issue as entering the maxfilecache. But I found this: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/xmsdsk.zip XMS/EMS RAMdisk v1.9i 16-bit DOS TSR [74 KB, freeware] or XMS/EMS RAMdisk v1.9i with installer/uninstaller for Windows 9x/ME [114 KB, freeware] Improved …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 11:29

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by Trank

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Thats cool, if my method is completely null it seems like that file you found could be your solution.

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 11:49

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by Roman78

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Your tip is working, at least I testet it on a virtual machine. Added up to 1 gig of ram and set the max on 128, and i got 128. Now when I add a ram drive into autoexec.bat, now i have 8 meg, it will leave 120 over. It's just testing now. Didn't worked in config.sys But now every time I boot i got a …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 12:06

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by Trank

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Wow... Im glad my "theory" or guess worked. This is cool cause i have always wanted to test that. Though like you said who knows how the stability is. It could work perfectly.

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 14:01

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by SaxxonPike

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This is a really cool idea! Thanks for sharing. I think I might try this on the next Win9x build, whenever that ends up being.

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 16:14

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by RetroBoogie

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So, in trying to bypass the Win98 RAM barrier myself, I have come across many solutions. One common one, as already mentioned, is to create a RAM drive at startup. What I ended up doing with my 2GB Athlon64 build is limiting RAM at startup using HIMEMX, and double-tapping that with setting …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 22:35

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by Jorpho

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I doubt it, because you'd have to somehow initialize the ramdrive and keep it there before Windows actually booted all the way, which means you have to do it from DOS, which means you're going to probably have weird issues with it in Windows itself. Not at all. You can add the relevant settings in …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 22:41

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by keenmaster486

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Could you place the page file/virtual memory stuff in the ramdisk and thus effectively get more memory?

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-06, 00:07

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by Rhuwyn

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Could you place the page file/virtual memory stuff in the ramdisk and thus effectively get more memory? I was just thinking the same thing. It wouldn't be more memory of course it would just be a really really fast page file. It will still copy data from the page file to memory and back again which …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-06, 01:04

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by KT7AGuy

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If anybody is interested, you can still download the older v3.5.130 RC 24 version of DataRAM's RAMDisk software here: http://filehippo.com/download_ramdisk/tech/12441/ Change Log for the newer v4.x releases is here, in case you're wondering what you get with the newer versions: http://memory.dataram …

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-06, 03:00

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by Jorpho

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Could you place the page file/virtual memory stuff in the ramdisk and thus effectively get more memory? I was just thinking the same thing. It wouldn't be more memory of course it would just be a really really fast page file. It will still copy data from the page file to memory and back again which …

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Help whit ati agp cards ;)

Posted on 2017-02-15, 09:05

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by tabm0de

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Im unsure if any off thease card are good for anything or if any are equal to voodoo2/3 or tnt card or such. If some one could clarify a little to me i would be happy.

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Re: Help whit ati agp cards ;)

Posted on 2017-02-15, 09:12

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by gdjacobs

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The first two cards (of which the Rage Pro Turbo is best) support the proprietary ATI CIF acceleration API which existed prior to everybody standardizing on OpenGL and Direct3D. The Rage 128 is a later generation card which supports Direct3D at roughly the level of Nvidia TNT cards, but without the …

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Re: Help whit ati agp cards ;)

Posted on 2017-02-15, 15:05

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by jade_angel

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Some level of hardware-accelerated OpenGL support for the 3D Rage (Rage IIC/Rage Pro Turbo) series does exist, at least under Linux and BSD. I'm not sure if that's possible under Windows or not - I'd expect so. However, they're not particularly zoomy cards for 3D. For 2D, they perform quite well, …

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Re: Help whit ati agp cards ;)

Posted on 2017-02-15, 16:06

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by candle_86

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For 2d they are great, still used even today on server boards, which means the Rage 2 even has Win10 drivers 🤣

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Re: Help whit ati agp cards ;)

Posted on 2017-02-15, 16:13

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by lazibayer

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First card is Rage IIc with 2MB EDO memory. In terms of 3D performance it's in the same tier as S3 Virge. You can find vintage3d's reviews here. No hardware OpenGL acceleration under Windows XP; not sure about D3D. The second card is Rage Pro with 8MB SDR. It was on the same generation as Voodoo 1 …

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Re: Help whit ati agp cards ;)

Posted on 2017-02-15, 22:32

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by meljor

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I have a rage128 pro and it actually surprised me as it ran 3dmark99 pretty well, the score was much higher as a voodoo1 and very close to voodoo2. Don't know about actual game performance...

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Re: Help whit ati agp cards ;)

Posted on 2017-02-16, 00:47

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by jade_angel

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Between V1 and V2 is about right. There were a few versions with widely variable performance, though. I will say that PCI Rage 128s are very nice DOS cards on S3/5/7 systems, with the capability to handle early OpenGL and D3D games well enough.

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