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From: PrinceGaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Thanks everyone for your advice in speeding up my Win98, K6-2/333,
> 32MB RAM, ancient PCI videocard system.
>
> The general concensus seems to be 64MB RAM or more first, after
> fiddling around with virtual memory (which I've just performed). After
> all the time I spent optimising everything loaded into the UMB area
> to leave about 622K (636+ thousand bytes) conventional, *WITH* an
> EMS page frame, I'm amazed I forgot about that.
>
> I defragment myself (and my computer) once a month so that shouldn't
> be a problem. While I know the HD "thrashing" is because of a RAM
> shortage (it just spent a couple of seconds doing something, and another
> second now rummaging on the HD for no obvious reason, there it went
> again-- is my machine on drugs with all it's unexpected disc accesses :-)
> I'm gonna go for the videocard first-- it'll help other apps and if
windoze
> runs slowly I'll tolerate it.
>
> Hey I need a new videocard for running classic arcade emulation, my k6-2
> is probably idling most of the time with those emulators all of which *do*
> ideally need to perform a full screen update every frame, so lots of work
> for my poor old videocard :-(
>
> I know RAM prices may rise soon, but we all know they were artifically low
> recently. I don't think my machine can take DIMMs (it has six identical
> looking slots, currently two are used with 16MByte SIMMs so there's
> plenty of expansion there). I bought the machine second-hand and find
> it somewhat odd it has six and not just four SIMM slots-- any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> PrinceGaz -> knowing it would be pointless to try to make any of the above
> MD related
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