i heard windows only sees 128 megs of ram ?

[DeadlyKnight]

ive got 256 in my p3v4x .it supports a whole lot and i dont see any difference in resources when i install the other dim 128 mg stick so whats up with that

 

[dawks]

98 or NT/Win2K?

 

[IceStorm]

The little Resource Meter won't notice extra RAM. Winblows 9x resource heaps are, I think now, 2MB in size, at the most (it was 64k in Win3x days). Extra RAM won't help them.

You'll see a difference if you decide to open a lot of apps at once, or scan an image at high resolutions. If you want to see the memory in use, pop open the System Monitor and tell it to show you unused physical memory. That'll give you an idea of how much space it's using.

Just my $0.02

 

[Livin4Real]

Download Sandra from tweakfiles.com It'll show you how much of a difference more ram makes.

 

[Mday]

i hate it when things like this happens.

confusing huh.

 

[xtreme2k]

well

adding ram does NOT add resource

u guys got that mixed up

 

[Train]

???

My MSDN says that win 98 can see 1 Gig of Ram, Win 2k can see 4 gigs

 

[Ulysses]

System resources are not synonymous with memory. See:

http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/solutions/0,8224,2337348,00.html

To increase system resources you have to eliminate programs that run in the background, like some of the things in your system tray that you really don't need.

In Win98: start>run>msconfig.exe>startup>then uncheck programs there that are automatically started at start-up, but which you don't need. Some, like RealPlayer, are very persistent, and will return as from the dead!
Win 2K is more efficient in this regard than Win 98 which is better than Win 95.

 

[Prodigy^]

you won't get extra speed when running one application, but extra allows you to have MORE applications open, and pics/sounds/models/whatever open, without having to use swapfile

 

[DeadlyKnight]

ok well that a little comforting i thought i baoght memory and then it wasnt using its if (resources) is not synonomous with memory then what is it .oh yea its 98se to answer the question

 

[Slapstick]

There a 2 resource heaps, (user and GDI) that are 64k big that windows uses to keep track of what programs are open, how they are displayed, what processes are running, etc. They are fixed in size so adding ram doesn?t help increase the resource heaps. A well behaved program should release the memory it uses in both ram and the resource heaps when it is no longer needed so other programs can use it but too often they refuse to release all the memory or resources so you eventually get an "out of memory" or "out of resource" error message. This is commonly referred to as "memory leak"

Windows will see and use more than 128 megs of ram. I have 256 megs and as I type this windows is using 160 megs, (I have several large programs running at the moment) so don?t worry that you wasted your money on ram, Windows will use it, especially if you use large memory intensive programs and it will improve performance since Windows wont be paging out to virtual memory as often.

 

[DeadlyKnight]

thx for the explaination

 

[dszd0g]

I agree that by default Realplayer is very annoying. However, this "feature" can be disabled. I currently have it disabled. I believe it is the "StartCenter" option under General preferences. Not very well marked, the only mention of it doing such is "enabling faster loading."