Definitely, and you could always dual boot Vista 64/XP 32. You should take a look at www.vistax64.com, as an example, to see if any of your hardware/software is mentioned in the posts there (good or bad).
Vista 32 or 64 bit edition?
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Definitely, and you could always dual boot Vista 64/XP 32. You should take a look at www.vistax64.com, as an example, to see if any of your hardware/software is mentioned in the posts there (good or bad).
A high end gamer in 2008 really needs to go 64 bit. The memory limitation of 32 bit operating systems is starting to rear it's ugly head regularly in modern games. Examples include Hellgate London, Supreme Commander, Dark Messiah, STALKER, & Company of Heroes. The issue has been worked around in most or all of those games after being identified, but when you think about it the original intent of the developers was combated and then compromised by this technical limitation. And sure, many instances of this can be chalked up to memory management not getting it's proper due but that will change sooner than many of us might expect. In the next few years there will be instances when running 32 bit will give you a noticeably inferior experience.
Or you use irreplaceable hardware that doesn't have 64bit drivers, like I do
Got a Voodoo card in that rig of yours?
I wouldn't say no choice. If you're not planning on using any RAM demanding apps, 32 bit Windows is still fine.
Yeah I suppose, but why not use 64-bit anyway? The mixed market isn't helping anyone. Yeah there's the hardware that the cheap-ass companies can't bother to support (like my HP Scanjet 4400C), but 64-bit is the future, not 32-bit. Plenty of hardware isn't supported in Vista 32-bit either. Supporting, what, 4 Windows OS's isn't making driver development simpler, that's for sure.
If you are building a new machine, I just don't see the sense in blowing at least $100 on 32-bit Vista.
I solve my scanner driver issue by having two comps at home. One is the gaming rig with all the newest stuff that's off most of the time, and the other is a always-on low-power-use machine with good 'ol XP 32-bit on it. I find it ironic that my HP Laserjet 4P from 1993 still works in Vista 64-bit, while my HP scanner from 2001 does not. HP PCL5 print drivers FTW.
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I generally agree with this. I was just pointing out 32 bit OS' aren't completely useless.
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Got a Voodoo card in that rig of yours?
there actually are XP64 drivers for voodoo3, 4 and 5!
http://falconfly.de/voodoo3.htm
http://falconfly.de/vsa100.htm
Naw, nothing you old time video card collectors would like, I've got a Line6 Podxt I use to record guitar with, bastards are currently "evaluating" making 64 bit drivers, said so from last year I believe and still no update.Got a Voodoo card in that rig of yours?
The Podxt has a digital out via USB(therefore pure digital when you record- no digital-analog-digital again), and it also doubles as a soundcard. I really enjoy using it as a headphone amp, as it has a very powerful(and high quality) headphone out, I can make it loud enough to hurt my ears with my Grado Sr80s are about 10 O' clock. As much as I enjoy using it, they have a bug that sometimes makes it so every once in while a static burst comes thru the headphone out, when it loses sync. The shitty thing is that sometimes it will work perfectly for days, but then ill reboot or swap which usb port I use and then it starts up with those static burstes again.. it sucks and it's a known issue which was never resolved.
Yeah, the box is confusing with the tabs and tape and whatnot.
I'm receiving my RAM today and finalizing my upgrade, but I stumbled upon this bit of information:
"Vista 64 has problems booting during install using 4GB of ram."
Any truth to this? They recommend to install with 2gb then install the remainder after Vista is up and running.
"Vista 64 has problems booting during install using 4GB of ram."
Any truth to this? They recommend to install with 2gb then install the remainder after Vista is up and running.
Yeah, my GA-X38-DS4 did fine with 4Gb too.
The article mentions a 32-bit DMA interface, which makes me think this (from a 64-bit OS perspective) this would occur on those chipsets that cannot address more than 4Gb of ram but can support a 64-bit processor. Example: the pre-Santa Rosa Intel mobile chipset...
The article mentions a 32-bit DMA interface, which makes me think this (from a 64-bit OS perspective) this would occur on those chipsets that cannot address more than 4Gb of ram but can support a 64-bit processor. Example: the pre-Santa Rosa Intel mobile chipset...
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