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While existing 98 drivers usually "worked", they were often buggy and unstable under ME. However with the news that this architecture was at an end, vendors did not update their Windows 98 drivers for Windows ME. Microsoft had made numerous internal changes at the device driver level. Windows ME was often criticized for its poor stability. Like Windows 95 and Windows 98 it used the same hybrid 16/32 bit kernel that ran on top of a bundled version of DOS (MS-DOS 8.0). P.S: If there are no answers posted in the next few days that explain how to fully use the 2 GiB of RAM under Windows 98, I'll mark this one as the answer.Windows Millennium Edition (internally Windows 4.90) was the last in the line of DOS-based Windows products. But it still enables use of 2 GiB of RAM under another OS in a dual boot setup. Limiting RAM to 1 GiB with HimemX seems like a stable fix, but I couldn't get the 2 GiB of RAM to work under Windows 98.

You can also add MaxFileCache=524288 under in system.ini to ensure that Windows 98 doesn't eat too much RAM for its cache. Windows 98 should now only have 1 GiB of RAM although 2 GiB are installed and it should still be stable.At the very beginning of the file, add device=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEMX.EXE /MAX=1048576.Open the Run dialog box (Windows + R), type sysedit and press Enter.

Extract himemx.zip and copy himemx.exe to C:\Windows\ under Windows 98.

Install Windows 98 with 1 GiB of RAM or less.

I might have found a stable way to limit Windows 98 to use only 1 GiB of RAM with HimemX: How can I have 2 GiB of RAM under Windows 98? Or, in last resort, how can I limit the maximum RAM of Windows 98?

I thought of trying to limit the maximum memory of Windows 98 to 1 GiB (apparently it can be done with the /maxmem boot parameter, but I don't know how to do it), but I don't know if it would work, and I would like to have those 2 GiB of RAM available under Windows 98. I also tried to limit the RAM to 999 MiB with msconfig advanced settings but I ended up with a very unstable system (I get a black screen or a BSOD every few minutes and I'm forced to reboot). I tried setting the MaxFileCache parameter to 524288 in the section of system.ini but it didn't work with 2 GiB. I'd like to have those 2 GiB of RAM permanently installed as I also have Windows XP on this PC. Windows 98 boots fine when I have 1 GiB of RAM installed, but I get the error Not enough memory if I install 2 GiB of RAM. The motherboard can handle 2GB of RAM, but apparently Windows 98 can only handle 1 GiB. I have assembled a retro-gaming PC out of an old Shuttle SN45G with a Windows 98/Windows XP dual boot.