patch9x issues, patchmem, etc on win9x

[cov3rt]

I am testing patch9x (jhrobotics) on a windows 95 osr 2.5 system with intel ich7-m chipset (dell latitude d820) with 4 GB ram. i was under the impression the patch9x would be roughly equivalent or better than patchmem from rloew, but unfortunately, it seems to be regressing in some areas. i specifically downloaded "patcher9x-0.9.91-boot.ima", used winimage to extract the contents, and only integrated the "patch9x.exe" + "CWSDPMI.exe" files in my custom 98SE boot disk iso burned to a cd, (patch9x needs to run from "a:" directory).

The author of patch9x mentioned that fixes from patchmem were largely integrated with patch9x ( not fully ) but most stuff implemented and to work on w95 as well, at least in the most recent release 0.9.91, which is the one i am using, however, i cannot set maxphyspage at 40000 or higher, where as in the past with patchmem, i was able to get up to at least 48000 without problem. "maxphyspage=39999" or lower does work ( roughly 922 MB ram ). minfilecache and maxfilecache were set to 52224 throughout testing with "maxphyspage=30000" to at least up to "maxphyspage=48000".

Additionally, i cannot run patchmem if patch9x already gets installed from beforehand which i do for install media ("c:\win95") in this case before running setup. i was thinking that maybe i could get the best of both worlds for combining the patches, but this doesn't appear to be possible. running "patchmem /m" says something about vmm32.vxd already being patched and vmm.vxd not found. i searched vmm.vxd in both my install media and c: drive and could not locate such file, only vmm32.vxd is present. 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by cov3rt

[SweetLow]

> maxphyspage=39999
JFYI, MaxPhysPage measured in hehadecimal numbers. So 40000h - 39999h is 26215h, not 1.

> patch9x would be roughly equivalent
> i cannot run patchmem if patch9x already gets installed
> i was thinking that maybe i could get the best of both worlds for combining the patches
You have to think twice. patch9x just includes patchmem, what else you are waiting?

>windows 95 osr 2.5
>i searched vmm.vxd
1. It's time to read patchmem manual. There is described which files installer tries to patch.
2. If I remember correctly USB supplement should install newer version of VMM.VXD to %windir\system\vmm32\ if you wish to see this working.