Question about memory

[chechi]

What is the highest amount of memory that Win ME can use. I have 512 pc133 now, but was wondering if I could ad more. Thanks

 

[chechi]

Anybody?

 

[majewski9]

Memory is dependent on your mobo! Three dimms that can use 512megs means you can have 1.5 gigs ram. I don't know how much ram win me can address, but I'm sure it is a number too high to reach on standard ATX mobo's.

 

[SocrPlyr]

winME can address as a couple gigs of memory (i can't remember the exact number...) but if you put in more ram you will have to change some of the vcache settings manually or it won't work properly...

Josh

 

[bacillus]

seeing win98 is on the same platform with ME, Win9x can theoretically support 2 GB of physical ram, and another 2 GB of virtual ram so I expect the same values for ME.
be aware that if you're going to exceed 512Mb then you'll get "out of memory" errors unless you add the line
MaxFileCache=512000 to the [vcache] section of system.ini to limit
vcache to 512 MB, preventing runaway sizes, which can disable, or
hinder, performance, by preventing other necessary processes to occur in
the first 2 GB of memory.
see this KB article!

 

[InFecTed]

512 is plenty for ME