Win98 Second Edition
 

I found the game @ a use computer store for a little bit of nothing
"10 dollars" & was gonna save it till I could buy Win XP but one evening I install it because I was bored & it ran?????????
This is a win2000/WinXP game but it runs on win98? Anyway I have a gripe with it you can not cut the stupid graphone off in the radio room? Anybody else have this problem too?
Thanx
Roy

Never Mind, I see the patch fixes it :-)

I wonder who the biggest nut was, the guy who got rid of SH3 or the guy to sell it in his shop for $10. :D :rotfl:

Hi Roy, yes it runs well in Win 98SE I had already experienced that on my second PC, the only problem being that the max amount of RAM is 524 and that is really too low for SH3 :roll:

Are you using the 1.4 patch??

For version 1.0 simply disable ingame music in the options menu, you shouldn't then hear any more music when playing :up:

Hitman:
You really should not propagate a myth like that ,i.e. W98SE & 524 RAM.

If you read this web page (scroll to the bottom) you will see how to up your W98SE/ME RAM to 1 GB, as I have done with ZERO problems on my PC: http://www.thpc.info/ram/vcache98.html

Hi Hitman long time no talk, I have the same amount of ram & yes the update fix it :-) good chating with you again & by the way I still play Pacific Aces :-) got to have an American theater too :-)
Roy

Hey Ol man! You still around?!?! :up:

good morning McBeck, yes sir, good to see you :-)
Roy

:huh:

I didn't know about that...believe me I was not propagating any myth, I simple was not aware of that :huh:

But it sounds great...will give it a try as I was considering building a racing games dedicated PC from some of the old parts I had been placing apart after updgrading.

I think that an optimized game build of Win98SE on a Celeron 2.8 (P4 generation) I have with 1024 MB RAM @512MHz (FSB of the Celeron is also @512) plus a decent video card might be even faster for playing GPL and GTR than a P4 2.6 with FSB @ 333 with Win XP and 2GB memory...

Thanks :up:

Hitman:
To be honest, I believed this myth too until I started doing some research so I could use more RAM on my dual boot ME/XP computer. When I found this site, it answered a whole lot of questions and as a result, it is in my "favorites" file for future referance. :know:

Because of this site, I have 2 GB in my dual boot PC with the ME side only seeing 1 GB while the XP side seeing the whole 2 GB. As a result, my SH3 with all the mods loads in 20 seconds flat compared to some of those other people who have 30 seconds or longer to load with 1 GB of RAM or less. :up:

So you can confirm that SH3 is faster in Win98SE with 1GB RAM than in XP with 2GB RAM? :huh: Amazing.....does that also apply to playing (frames per second) or only to loading the game?

:o

Hitman:
I am sorry if I mislead you. I have SH3 on the XP side (that uses the 2 GB), not the ME side that uses the 1 GB.

I was refering to another thread where people were complaining that it took 30 seconds or longer to load when they only had 1 GB of RAM. I was just trying to point out that 2 GB of RAM does decrease the loading time of SH3 by 10 seconds or more.

Sorry about that. :oops: :oops: :oops:

The only problem with using Win98SE and patch 1.4b is that careers cannot be saved anymore. In patrols or in port :cry:

It worked fine in SH3 1.0 :x

Crop-Duster,
When I get back to port it saves but not while it's on patrol & I have 1.4b ver?

:up:

Ya I just noticed that!

Thank you :rock: