64 bit Vista for games?

kyzen

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I've been runnig Vista Ultimate 32 bit for 2 months now and am quite happy with it. Was considering the jump to 4 gigs of RAM with my tax return, which I'd need 64 bit for.

So, anybody have experience with any of the following on Vista:

Steam (Half Life 2, CS:S)
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield 2
WoW
Warcraft 3
America's Army

and How is Nvidia's driver support for 64 bit? I'm sporting a 7900 GS.

I'd love to go to 4 gigs of RAM, but if I'm going to take a performance hit, I think I'd rather spend the money on an LCD TV, or to finish replacing my CRT's with LCD monitors.
 

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Originally posted by: kyzen
I've been runnig Vista Ultimate 32 bit for 2 months now and am quite happy with it. Was considering the jump to 4 gigs of RAM with my tax return, which I'd need 64 bit for.

So, anybody have experience with any of the following on Vista:

Steam (Half Life 2, CS:S)
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield 2
WoW
Warcraft 3
America's Army

and How is Nvidia's driver support for 64 bit? I'm sporting a 7900 GS.

I'd love to go to 4 gigs of RAM, but if I'm going to take a performance hit, I think I'd rather spend the money on an LCD TV, or to finish replacing my CRT's with LCD monitors.

WoW runs fine from what I have read.
I can confirm Steam is fine too.


Games I have installed on my Vista x64 HP.


Space Rangers 2 (No CD hack without starforce,retail version).
Steam(CS,TFC,DoD etc..)
UT2004
KOTOR
KOTOR2 (with the MS32.dll file patch to fix crash at start)
Oblivion
Morrowind with all exp packs
Starcraft with exp pack
Jedi Academy
Jedi Outcast
Silverfall
Vanguard
UFO-Afterlight
Baldur's Gate with exp pack
Baldur's Gate 2 with exp pack.
Might & Magic 8

Nvidia Vista x64 support is same as Vista x68 support .






 

KeypoX

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Originally posted by: kyzen
I've been runnig Vista Ultimate 32 bit for 2 months now and am quite happy with it. Was considering the jump to 4 gigs of RAM with my tax return, which I'd need 64 bit for.

So, anybody have experience with any of the following on Vista:

Steam (Half Life 2, CS:S)
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield 2
WoW
Warcraft 3
America's Army

and How is Nvidia's driver support for 64 bit? I'm sporting a 7900 GS.

I'd love to go to 4 gigs of RAM, but if I'm going to take a performance hit, I think I'd rather spend the money on an LCD TV, or to finish replacing my CRT's with LCD monitors.


BF2 runs terrible ... war 3 runs great ... thats all i tried
 

hectorsm

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Yep. BF2 runs really bad. Too much disk access going on during game play which causes slowdown. I might need more RAM. In the mean time I have switched back to XP.