Diplo said:It seems to all come down to drivers and, frankly, I don't think a lot of companies are going to bother putting too much effort into writing 64 bit versions until Vista.
Deathlike2 said:I disagree to some extent. Some of the more important products (stuff that is selling now) will get theirs done first (like NVidia and ATI).. but there will be potentially quite a bit of unsupported products for XP64 just because of either laziness (Creative comes to mind a lot) or the time/cost to do such a thing. I'm pretty sure they are actively developing for Vista though. (You still have to provide Vista compatible drivers even if the OS is beta. You don't want to be last company to support Vista.)
Personally.. I'd wait until hardware has drivers available for Vista before using it (then again, I would wait until its first service pack because you are almost guarenteed a Vista driver is available by the time a service pack is released).. I can already imagine that the drivers that would accompany Vista for the X-Fi series will be a POS (mainly MS generally provides drivers with basic acceleration most of the time) and Creative has been known to be rather slow in developing drivers for older products.
SugarCoat said:actually having used X64 for quite awhile, Creative has been one of the few that have been actively and constantly developing drivers for this OS, so im a bit confused as to why you picked them. They have X64 drivers for every mainstream and/or popular product except the divi cam line i believe. In comparison to other companies, creative has been fantastic, places like cannon or logitech on the other hand have been pathetic.
Creative Tech Support said:Boston Acoustic Digital Speakers or Prebuilt System With a Digital Live! Card
Some name brand systems shipped with a special Live! Value card that was made to work with digital speakers. If you system shipped with a Live! Value and you have digital speakers you will need to use drivers provided by your system manufacturer. If you use the drivers on the Creative website your card will no longer work with your digital speakers.
If you have a set of Boston Acoustic digital speakers that came with your system and they are not working with your sound card, make sure you have it connected to the digital out on the card. Also make sure that the digital out is enabled.
Well you can think of it as windows ME imo or win98 SE.horvendile said:In my quest for buying a new computer - temporarily halted by the arrival of R580 - I had been planning to use WinXP x64, the intended CPU being an Athlon X2. Now I'm starting to worry that Xp x64 will be a dead-end OS that noone will develop for when Vista arrives, always being ridden by irritating compatibility nags. Thoughts about that?
Another question, slightly OT: In terms of 32-bit XP, will I need XP Pro for a dual core setup, or will it work with XP Home also?
Ingenu said:Yo'ure going the wrong way around, all apps are MEANT to be 64bit on a 64bit OS !!!
So it's "why the hell isn't MS Office 64bit ?!"...
Running at non native "bitcount" makes the app go through the emulation layer which is not that fast (for games that is, you don't care too much about office suites and the like)
It's working fine more meTahir2 said:In answer to the thread quesion, XP-x64 has not matured and unless you really need the extra memory addressing space avoid it like the plague. MHO.