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How to speed-up my PC running win98se in gaming?

Jul 12, 2007 12:31PM PDT

My Pc Specification:

Intel Celeron 1.1 ghz
128 mb ram pc133 sdram
Inno3d Gefore2 mx 400 64mb
30gig Maxtor hardisk
ECS P6vxat Motherboard

Please someone can help me to tweak my PC in gaming...

Guys, thanks for the help...

God Bless!!!!

email: bartyboy_15@yahoo.com

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No emails. Why?
Jul 12, 2007 12:41PM PDT
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yep
Jul 30, 2007 1:25PM PDT

98lite; shell swap and remove IE - make any Windows 98 machine fly like the good old days.

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My freind...
Jul 18, 2007 1:38PM PDT

get a new computer

or for goodness sakes get a new OS like windows xp at least

for gaming

unless you are using old games?

what games r we talking about?

and i would get at least 512MB ram for gaming

and at least 1.5 GHZ CPU

video card looks fine

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Speed up my pc for gaming
Jul 22, 2007 12:54PM PDT

Thanks..

i used to play Warcraft III frozen throne.. the dota allstars.

and i used to play Counter Strike...

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I'm not a gamer.
Jul 22, 2007 11:53PM PDT

If you want to game you need to go 2x or better yet 4x on the ram size.

If you want to try something free...check out 'conservative swap file'.

Look here:
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.php

Don't expect much and if you don't like it you can remove the tweak.

Another free area to test is to shut down unneeded task before you
try running the game.

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Perform a clean boot in Win98
Jan 14, 2009 11:54PM PST

I found this gem years ago as a tip for getting Dungeon Siege to play a little faster n my Win98SE box. Found on the MS website:

"Windows 98 includes a System Configuration Utility tool (Msconfig.exe) to make performing a clean boot much easier...

* Start System Configuration Utility at the Run command. To do this, click Start, click Run, type msconfig.exe in the Open box, and then click OK.

To use System Configuration Utility to perform a clean boot... follow these steps:

1. On the General tab, click Selective Startup, and then click to clear the following check boxes:
* Process Config.sys File
* Process Autoexec.bat File
* Process Winstart.bat File (if available)
* Process System.ini File
* Process Win.ini File
* Load Startup Group Items

2. Click OK, and then restart your computer when you are prompted to do so."

This frees up a lot of memory and shuts down a lot of processes that eat up cpu cycles.