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Speeding Up Win98SE?
Don McC wrote:
I'm using a twelve year-old IBM Aptiva as a second computer, mostly to read Usenet, mail, and text groups. But the computer runs like a snail on the Web. 256 MB Ram, 267 MHz processor, 1.4 GB free on a 4.0 GB drive, Internet Explorer 6.0 and Win98SE. I think I've upgraded-updated as much as the system allows. Am I being done in by the hardware or the software? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA. Households and businesses are throwing away 5 and 6 year-old P4 computers all the time. They've already thrown away older computers years ago. You can buy off-lease IBM computers with 512 mb ram, 40 gb hard drives and 2 ghz P-4 CPUs for $50 to $75. I'm running win-98 on a 3.5 ghz Core2 socket 775 intel Celeron with 1 gb ram and 256 mb nvidia video card, with 2tb and 1.5tb SATA hard drives. I have proper win-98 drivers for all the components on the motherboard except for the HD-audio chip (I have soundblaster Audigy PCI card for sound). Basically, there's no reason for you to be using such old hardware to run windows 98. Either scan your local craigs list or kijiji for people giving away their 6-year-old computer, or place an ad under "P4 computer wanted", or visit your local municipal electronic waste drop-off depot (where people bring old electrics to dispose of them) and wait for someone to throw away their old computer (which will almost certainly be newer than what you have). Pull it off the pile when they do. Grab yourself a better monitor while you're at it. |
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Speeding Up Win98SE?
MotoFox wrote:
And it came to pass that 98 Guy delivered the following message unto the people, saying~ Basically, there's no reason for you to be using such old hardware to run windows 98. Yeah there is: SIM COPTER and STREETS OF SIM CITY. (Look them up on Wikipaedia.) From experience those games do NOT run satisfactorillly on anything higher than a Pentium 2! I happen to still have my original, aging '99 Aptiva 2158, 400 MHz K6II with 128 MB of RAM and still use it regularly for that purpose. (That and Doom II.) Of course, that machine hasn't touched the "Internets" in almost a decade and has had 98 reinstalled a couple times since; Y.R.M.V. What about trying one of those "slowdown" programs that just eat up CPU cycles? I think that works on some old games. Or maybe they only worked with some DOS games - I can't recall now. A couple of those programs were "Brenze" and "Moslo", but they may only work with some old DOS programs. (FYI, slowdown.com and whoa.com didn't even work on some of my old DOS programs) |
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MotoFox wrote:
Basically, there's no reason for you to be using such old hardware to run windows 98. Yeah there is: SIM COPTER and STREETS OF SIM CITY. Most win-98 users aren't children. |
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Speeding Up Win98SE?
98 Guy wrote in :
Basically, there's no reason for you to be using such old hardware to run windows 98. Indeed. Better to use a smaller faster OS on newer hardware if possible. It leaves more power to get useful stuff done. |
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
m: What about trying one of those "slowdown" programs that just eat up CPU cycles? That could work too, though you'd also see slowing of non-timer-related functions like screen redraws. Likely not a problem though, if the game was made for a slower machine. Ideally it would sense when timer code was being invoked, and slow only that, but I doubt this is doable except as a dedicated patch for the software needing it. |
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