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kook
08-12-2005, 07:06 PM
is it true win 98 actually cant actually take advantage of a full gig of memory it can only process 512???

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Strawbs
08-12-2005, 07:58 PM
98 leaks memory like a seive!

It will read 1gb if you remove the restriction in the system info panel. How well it uses it is open to question.
Midknyte
08-12-2005, 09:13 PM
yep. you will run into some weird errors with anything over 512. you will not gain any performance higher than 512. why you would want to run win98 on a system with 1G of ram is beyond me. :p
mireland
08-12-2005, 10:32 PM
my understanding is anything over 128 mgs is a waste for win98.... :eek:
Ol'Tunzafun
08-13-2005, 01:53 AM
128MB is fine. 256MB is optimal for Win98. 512 is max. Adding more than that actually degrades performance.
RayH
08-13-2005, 05:05 PM
I used to run Windows 98 SE with about 384 MB RAM. It worked quite well for what it was. RAM was cheap at the time.