There is an option to let FastRAM be used instead of ChipRAM for Gfx under OS3.9 which helps, but nothing cuts it like using 24bit screenmodes with a Gfx card.
With your too many icons in a directory/running out of ChipRAM problem, how about using the FREE version via Aminet of Directory Opus 4 or another file manager to open the directory, which uses a great deal less Gfx/CHIP memory and then you can create directories in a main folder and drop suitable files into other directories, so there is less in the main directory so you still have enough ChipRAM for the smaller directories to be opened to see the icons.
