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XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Murphy » Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:44 pm

Building a new PC and would like help with best operating system to choose

Whadya fink?


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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Viking » Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:54 pm

Murphy wrote:Building a new PC and would like help with best operating system to choose

Whadya fink?


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64bit - still a bit of a fizzer that one. 16bit to 32bit went alot smoother.
Vista 32bit - running it, only got it for DX10 stuff and because I was building a new PC.

XP - dual booting this as Vista thinks the graphics card has crashed, when it hasn't, while running rFactor.

My pick is Vista, with a dual boot of XP for gaming, or just XP.

Thats my completely uninformed opinion.
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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Bold » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:05 pm

I'm running Vista 64bit, no problems so far, got drivers for all my hardware etc, and the games I have tried so far have no problems..

I haven't tried a lot of old games yet, or new games for that matter.. Only been running it for a week so far :)

I'd say for the future, and especially if you have 4Gig+ of ram then go Vista 64, but it might be a good idea to have an XP dual boot for a wee while yet.
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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Murphy » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:47 pm

Cheers chaps, i think ill try 64 vista, and dual boot if probs

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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Riven » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:06 pm

If you have more than 3.5GB of ram XP 32bit will cause weird errors, XP 64bit will be Ok though.
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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Happy » Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:20 pm

There is a way to make vista 32 bit see the full 4 gigs, you have to edit some file - not sure on the details but google will know :>
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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Inspector » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:31 pm

I have been running XP 64bit for about 3 weeks now with no issues. The only game that I know of so far that had to self install a 64bit version is Crysis but it did it all automatically and runs fine.

I have since heard about this hack to make windows(32) recognise 4gig of ram but the question is, does it just recognise it but can't utilise it like 64bit does?
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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Growler » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:53 pm

While we are on the subjuct of this, how can you tell if you are running 32bit or 64bit in XP?
What are the benefits of going to 64bit?
I have 4Gb memory but as stated it only recognises 3.5Gb...but I have had no issues with it to date.
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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Bold » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:43 pm

Growler wrote:While we are on the subjuct of this, how can you tell if you are running 32bit or 64bit in XP?
What are the benefits of going to 64bit?
I have 4Gb memory but as stated it only recognises 3.5Gb...but I have had no issues with it to date.
Goto system properties (windows key + pause) and it will tell you. If it just says 'Windows XP' you will only have 32. It is very unlikely that you will have 64bit.

You wont have any issues with having more ram, it just wont get used.

The only real benefit is that it can address more memory, and the odd program which is written for it may run 'slightly' better. The only 64bit game I know of is Far Cry / Crysis.
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Re: XP, Vista or Vista 64bit

Post by Growler » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:28 pm

Bold wrote:
Growler wrote:While we are on the subjuct of this, how can you tell if you are running 32bit or 64bit in XP?
What are the benefits of going to 64bit?
I have 4Gb memory but as stated it only recognises 3.5Gb...but I have had no issues with it to date.
Goto system properties (windows key + pause) and it will tell you. If it just says 'Windows XP' you will only have 32. It is very unlikely that you will have 64bit.

You wont have any issues with having more ram, it just wont get used.

The only real benefit is that it can address more memory, and the odd program which is written for it may run 'slightly' better. The only 64bit game I know of is Far Cry / Crysis.
Damn!...So it won't give me an extra few tenths lap time in rFactor!
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