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Peter [AGHL] - 07 Apr 2008 18:45 GMT

Hi

Anyone with any experience in using 64bit OS and games generally speaken :)
Working on an upgrade for the kids and I am thinking of introducing some
64bit Vista ...

- Peter

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Shawk - 07 Apr 2008 19:14 GMT

> Hi
>
> Anyone with any experience in using 64bit OS and games generally speaken :)
> Working on an upgrade for the kids and I am thinking of introducing some
> 64bit Vista ...

Sorry Peter I can't comment on 64bit but I did buy an OEM copy of Vista
32bit with a recent 500gig hard-drive to dual-boot and generally mess
around with and I'm finding I actually like it now with SP1. Games are
absolutely fine on it with no noticeable slow down. I do have the
8800GTS 512mb though which would certainly help. If you do try 64bit
I'd be interested in how you find it though so post back...

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LymanAlpha - 07 Apr 2008 22:49 GMT

On 4/7/08 11:14 AM Shawk brightened our day with:

>> Hi
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> have the 8800GTS 512mb though which would certainly help. If you do
> try 64bit I'd be interested in how you find it though so post back...

I have both 64 bit Vista Home Premium and 64 bit Vista Ultimate. I've
had almost zero problems with my G92 or any other hardware. Running a
AMD X2 6400+ and 4 Gigs of Corsair memory.
Vista has removed the established Direct3D Hardware Abstraction Layer
which results in there being some sound issues as far as surround
etc... I have a Creative X-Fi sound card that you have to use a
Creative program called Alchemy in order to get surround to work. HL2
in 64 bit mode there is no way to get surround to work. The other HL2
based games, Ep. 1, 2, TF2 and Portal... even Dark Messiah can get
surround to work fine.

I don't know if anything about 64 bit vista is actually better. It just
feels more reasonable to be using a 64 bit OS if you have a 64 bit CPU.

I'm running the assorted Steam games plus Quake 4, Doom 3, Crysis, the
Witcher, COD4. They all work fine.

I have Adobe CS2 (Photoshop 9), which Adobe says they don't support
working fine in Vista 64 as well.

Buy the Vista Home Premium 64 bit system builders edition.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116204
Only $100. The system builders edition is not OEM, you don't have to
buy hardware with it. The license is just funky so that you can only
install it on one system, ever. Meaning if the computer you're building
were to blow up you'd be out of luck.

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McG. - 11 Apr 2008 03:19 GMT

> Hi
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> - Peter

I don't know about Vista 64 bit, but I've been using XP Pro x64 for years
now. The only games I really play at all now are the Steam games. They are
fabulous in 64 bits :) Have gotten more into my photography and 3D stuff
and not so much the games now.
McG.

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