Running Windows 98SE + Rudolph Loew's Windows 9x RAM Limitation Patch. WarCraft II problems with Win98SE. Windows 98 Maximum RAM. From time to time you?ll see postings claiming that Windows 98, SE, ME. A bug in Windows 95, 98, SE, and ME crops up if. Apprently 1.5GB is the maximum amount of RAM windows 98 can boot with. Windows 98 Maximum RAM.
The Windows 98 memory manager only supports a maximum of 1GB. This amount of memory was considered beyond huge for the time, and by the time people commonly had that much or more memory, Microsoft expected people to be using either newer versions of Windows 9x, or Windows NT.From:Windows 98 bumped the limit to 1GB because there existed a vendor (who shall remain nameless) who was insane enough to want to sell machines with 1GB of RAM and preinstall Windows 98 instead of the much more suitable Windows NT.The linked blog post also goes into the technical reasons why.If your workaround works, then stick with it. You'll only ever be able to use 1GB of RAM with Windows 98, but XP will be able to make use of the full 2GB. I managed to get my 2GB RAM dual Pentium III vintage rig project to use 1100MB RAM.Built up the Windows 98SE software on VirtualBox first.Then I just transferred the virtual disk to a physical one with 7-zip and sys command to make it bootable on the vintage.Runs like new, AGP aperture is much more stable.
Come to think of it, 1GB RAM on a virtual machine with 4GB RAM-Disk as a swap disk really works well too.Perhaps someone could make a RAM-Disk for DOS for say 3GB RAM in XMS as a scratch disk.Anyhow, there is no way Windows will use more RAM unless system files are replaced with better ones that are either in a different language or some dope decided to put a price tag on.Windows millennium can run with 2gb ram perhaps someone could port these parts to 98se.