risk_reversal Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 (edited) I recently purchased Mr Loew's ram limitation patch.For clarity, my current 98SE install is running with 1GB of ram (2x 512Mb) system.ini info as follows:[386Enh]ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1PagingDrive=C:MinPagingFileSize= 524288MaxPagingFileSize= 1048576[vcache]minfilecache=131072maxfilecache=262144As regards installing the ram patch is this what I should be doing.1. Boot -->F82. Select Command Prompt Only3. Navigate to the location of the patch on partition4. At prompt type PATCHMEM.EXEThen reboot.Is that all that is needed. Apart of course from installing my new 2gb (2x1gb) modules thereafter.Reason I ask is that the manual speaks of running the WININIT Command, but perhaps I am getting confused which is easily done nowadays.My final question regards my settings as regards the swap file. Is it ok to leave MinPagingFileSize / MaxPagingFileSize as they are (above), by that I mean are they likely to cause the patch to malfunction in any way so to speak.Many thanks for any info providedCheers Edited November 23, 2010 by risk_reversal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninho Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Re. "wininit", it's not something you have to run yourself : though it would be possible indeed it's not needed, the way it works is Windows will run wininit.exe during its boot-up procedure and execute any operations defined in "wininit.ini".Not familiar with RLoew's patch, I'll leave to him to answer your final question.Cheers,-- Ninho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rloew Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 I recently purchased Mr Loew's ram limitation patch.For clarity, my current 98SE install is running with 1GB of ram (2x 512Mb) system.ini info as follows:[386Enh]ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1PagingDrive=C:MinPagingFileSize= 524288MaxPagingFileSize= 1048576[vcache]minfilecache=131072maxfilecache=262144As regards installing the ram patch is this what I should be doing.1. Boot -->F82. Select Command Prompt Only3. Navigate to the location of the patch on partition4. At prompt type PATCHMEM.EXEThen reboot.Is that all that is needed. Apart of course from installing my new 2gb (2x1gb) modules thereafter.Reason I ask is that the manual speaks of running the WININIT Command, but perhaps I am getting confused which is easily done nowadays.My final question regards my settings as regards the swap file. Is it ok to leave MinPagingFileSize / MaxPagingFileSize as they are (above), by that I mean are they likely to cause the patch to malfunction in any way so to speak.Many thanks for any info providedCheersUsing the procedure described above, you could have added the RAM BEFORE running PATCHMEM if you wanted to.The instructions for WININIT were for installing a new Windows 9x System, not Patching an existing one.Your swap file settings should not be a problem. Only if you had more than 3GiB of accessible RAM could there be any possible issues.With the extra RAM, your swap file will get a lot less use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risk_reversal Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 I recently purchased Mr Loew's ram limitation patch.For clarity, my current 98SE install is running with 1GB of ram (2x 512Mb) system.ini info as follows:[386Enh]ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1PagingDrive=C:MinPagingFileSize= 524288MaxPagingFileSize= 1048576[vcache]minfilecache=131072maxfilecache=262144As regards installing the ram patch is this what I should be doing.1. Boot -->F82. Select Command Prompt Only3. Navigate to the location of the patch on partition4. At prompt type PATCHMEM.EXEThen reboot.Is that all that is needed. Apart of course from installing my new 2gb (2x1gb) modules thereafter.Reason I ask is that the manual speaks of running the WININIT Command, but perhaps I am getting confused which is easily done nowadays.My final question regards my settings as regards the swap file. Is it ok to leave MinPagingFileSize / MaxPagingFileSize as they are (above), by that I mean are they likely to cause the patch to malfunction in any way so to speak.Many thanks for any info providedCheersUsing the procedure described above, you could have added the RAM BEFORE running PATCHMEM if you wanted to.The instructions for WININIT were for installing a new Windows 9x System, not Patching an existing one.Your swap file settings should not be a problem. Only if you had more than 3GiB of accessible RAM could there be any possible issues.With the extra RAM, your swap file will get a lot less use.Thanks v much, that is most kind. I will let you know how I get on.Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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