32 bit vista or 64

[madbutcher88]

I am building a gaming pc and I got all the hardware specs down, so now I need to know which versions of vista is better to buy thanks in advance

 

[Excelsior]

64, because you'll be gaming and therefore you'll want to utilize 4GB or more either now or at some point.

*The license is for both 32 and 64, so you just need to choose which version you want (home premium or ultimate really). I think home premium is just fine though.

 

[madbutcher88]

oh alright thanks I just wanted to make sure if the 64 bit was buggy in some way I guess Ill go 64bit

 

[Red Squirrel]

Only downside of 64 is it forces you to use digitally signed hardware (though there's most likely a hack for that) so if you got a nice top of the line $1200 video card and its not digitally signed, then tough luck. Not sure how bad of an issue that is though. Just research all your parts first to see if they're M$ approved.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Only downside of 64 is it forces you to use digitally signed hardware (though there's most likely a hack for that) so if you got a nice top of the line $1200 video card and its not digitally signed, then tough luck. Not sure how bad of an issue that is though. Just research all your parts first to see if they're M$ approved.

This is not relevant for today's video cards (especially high end ones you alluded to) because all of Nvidia and ATI's cards in recent times have digitally signed vista Drivers- even the 'ancient' Radeon 9500 has Vista 64bit drivers.

oh alright thanks I just wanted to make sure if the 64 bit was buggy in some way I guess Ill go 64bit

It's not buggy at all, many will attest that Vista 64 has been running fine for them since day 1- including myself.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Only downside of 64 is it forces you to use digitally signed hardware (though there's most likely a hack for that) so if you got a nice top of the line $1200 video card and its not digitally signed, then tough luck. Not sure how bad of an issue that is though. Just research all your parts first to see if they're M$ approved.

yep.
Ran into this with some of my hardware.
Nothing critical, its some hardware that has custom usb drivers .
There are ways to disable it, but its still a pain.

Also have some software that has trouble seeing the total available memory, even though the same program worked fine in xp x64. Still thats a software issue and not vistas fault.

 

[coolVariable]

64bit also does not support print to OneNote.

 

[postmortemIA]

64 bit has all that 32 bit has - and more.

 

[coolVariable]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
64 bit has all that 32 bit has - and more.

Nope - see post above.
64bit does have LOTS MORE program incompatabilities.

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
64bit does have LOTS MORE program incompatabilities.

but LESS program incompatibilities compared to say XP 64.

...and who cares about OneNote.