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bazbazbaz
09-03-2005, 04:14 PM
i have win 98.could anyone tell me how to free up some conventional mem? i have about 600 free.would i have to do this manually or are there any DECENT free programs i could download to do so?
The Niles
09-03-2005, 04:15 PM
600KB? That is a lot and I doubt you will get the other 40KB free.
bazbazbaz
09-03-2005, 04:24 PM
how about freeing up memory in DOS under win 98? By the time i have loaded all my drivers it has gone down to around 550, and then some dos games refuse to run?
Rogue
09-03-2005, 04:48 PM
Set drivers to use upper memoty block instead of conventional.
The Niles
09-03-2005, 07:30 PM
This depends on what you mean by "under DOS". Back when I had Win98 I had a dual boot and I would recommend you do the same. You need to do some editing of the Config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Do some searching on the internet on how to set it up (cause I, for the life of me, don't recall how to do it).
NeKromancer
09-03-2005, 07:46 PM
I always had to use Boot disks to get games to run (mostly dos games that needed a lot of mem).
I used to use Quemm or something to manage my memory wonce I got Win95 and I didn't have to use boot disks anymore.
Rogue
09-03-2005, 07:53 PM
Eagle of Fire has posted a lot of stuff in Troubleshooting forum. You can get most of needed info right there.
Eagle of Fire
09-03-2005, 08:10 PM
Indeed. You should look here first (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2743). ;)
madcrow
10-03-2005, 01:43 PM
you have 600KB free??? that's about as good as it gets... i only can get 570KB free :(
Omuletzu
10-03-2005, 02:05 PM
I can get 610 :bleh:
Koen
10-03-2005, 02:45 PM
My soundcard drivers take too much space. Before driverload: 590 kB, after driverload: 510 kB...
The Fifth Horseman
10-03-2005, 03:58 PM
Dual Boot with Dos being the second system.
Autoexec with only soundcard drivers loaded.
No mouse driver/ Norton Commander loaded.
This made about 620-630 K for me way back when I still had my old PC and had trouble running Flashback.
Rogue
10-03-2005, 04:59 PM
You can create menu system where you create different configurations and different driver sets. This way you can for example disable CD (if not needed) to save couple more kb....

This is what I use to do.
taikara
10-03-2005, 08:33 PM
If you're looking for a prog to do it for you, I used to use MaxMem (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm) by AnalogX. It's pretty good.