Large discrepancy in Win98 graphics performance of X850 XT PE

[Marcus L]

Wikipedia says that "Windows 98 is only designed to handle up to 512 MB of RAM without changes."

I ran with 512MB back in the day without any issues. Still more than enough for 98SE.

Yea you are likely right as that would go into 2/4 easier than 768Mb was off the top of my head though and haven't messed with 98 for years, or maybe it was the max value I could use when setting it up in a VM

 

[OMORES]

Are you dual booting this system as iirc windows 98 can only utilise up to 768Mb of ram, I'm surprised it will boot at all with 2Gb installed

Windows 98 won't boot if there's too much RAM, ironically displaying an 'insufficient RAM' error. This happens because Windows needs to allocate some memory to manage the system's total RAM, but the default allocation runs out if the system has more than 512MB installed—a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Fortunately, you can work around this by limiting the amount of RAM Windows recognizes. By adding MaxPhysPage=xxxxx in the system.ini file, you can boot into Windows 98 regardless of how much RAM is installed. For instance, I've successfully booted it with 64GB of RAM.

However, if you need more RAM, as I did when running Half-Life 2 on Windows 98, you can use R. Loew's PTCHMEM utility. This patch allows Windows 98 to utilize all available memory under 4GB, making the extra RAM usable within the system.

 

[eidairaman1]

Wikipedia says that "Windows 98 is only designed to handle up to 512 MB of RAM without changes."

I ran with 512MB back in the day without any issues. Still more than enough for 98SE.

I ran it with 2GB

Yea you are likely right as that would go into 2/4 easier than 768Mb was off the top of my head though and haven't messed with 98 for years, or maybe it was the max value I could use when setting it up in a VM

 

[Imperator]

However, if you need more RAM, as I did when running Half-Life 2 on Windows 98, you can use R. Loew's PTCHMEM utility. This patch allows Windows 98 to utilize all available memory under 4GB, making the extra RAM usable within the system.

Hello.
I own several old computers made for multiple boot.
Some of them are with 4gb RAM and indeed you need to apply the patch made by R.Loew.
Of course W98 won't use all the amount you have, but your system will work flawless.