Hi guys,
E_J's idea definitely works. It was a very lame idea from iD Software to "protect" (?!) DOOM 3 from being run under Windows 98/ME this way!
Actually, I noticed that the game runs better under Windows 98 than Windows XP. But, perhaps, this is only an optical illusion, attributed to my deep affection to Windows 98...
Still, reloading a quicksave is _incomparably_ faster in Windows 98 than Windows XP!
As E_J mentioned, GlobalMemoryStatusEx and GlobalMemoryStatus are quite different. But not only their return value is, but also the data structure that they fill in with information! For this reason, I made a patch that "forwards" GlobalMemoryStatusEx to GlobalMemoryStatus and grabs memory status information from the record fields as laid out in GlobalMemoryStatus's data structure. [...] EDIT: The patch is meant to be applied to Reloaded's no-CD executable!
Not that this made any difference on my machine...
Also, note that there are gonna be severe problems on machines with memory more than 4 Gigabytes as that is the reason why GlobalMemoryStatusEx was created...
I wrote up a little article on the tools I used, see
http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=63465 . Happy gaming and hacking,
Joe