Any 64-bit Windows apps to play with?

[Jeff7181]

I'm downloading the public beta release of WinXP 64-bit and wanted to play with some 64-bit apps and see if anything seems faster. So list any that you know of, and link to them if possible.

 

[crazyeddie]

IE 64-bit is supposed to be pretty snappy, and it's built into your download.

Other than that, it's pretty tough (and unprofitable) to develop and ship applications for an Operating System that isn't available yet...

 

[Jeff7181]

It is very snappy... VERY snappy. Posting from it right now. I tried nVidia's BlobbyDancer demo and it's definately faster in 64-bit mode. Extra GPR's help a lot I guess... too bad there's no frame rate counter. I'm going to see if FRAPS works.

 

[Alex]

hmmm i so if you have an A64 processor all u need to do is install the windows 64 demo and it will work just like that?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: franguinho
hmmm i so if you have an A64 processor all u need to do is install the windows 64 demo and it will work just like that?

Yeah... no sound... but other than that I didn't find anything wrong with it in my limited testing.

 

[Nothinman]

Other than that, it's pretty tough (and unprofitable) to develop and ship applications for an Operating System that isn't available yet...

Obviously it's available since so many people are using it now. And most applications should be simple to port, just recompile and you're done unless you made a lot of stupid assumptions in your code.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Other than that, it's pretty tough (and unprofitable) to develop and ship applications for an Operating System that isn't available yet...

Obviously it's available since so many people are using it now. And most applications should be simple to port, just recompile and you're done unless you made a lot of stupid assumptions in your code.

For an application to REALLY take advantage of it, doesn't it have to be written to take advantage of the extra features? I mean, the extra GPR's would increase performance alone, but there are other additional features that would allow performance gains, isn't there?

 

[ncage]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Other than that, it's pretty tough (and unprofitable) to develop and ship applications for an Operating System that isn't available yet...

Obviously it's available since so many people are using it now. And most applications should be simple to port, just recompile and you're done unless you made a lot of stupid assumptions in your code.

For an application to REALLY take advantage of it, doesn't it have to be written to take advantage of the extra features? I mean, the extra GPR's would increase performance alone, but there are other additional features that would allow performance gains, isn't there?

Yes there is Jeff but to really see the difference you need to have an application that does a lot of calculations with 64 bit integer or Floating Point Numbers. You would see the biggest performance increases from games & server applications (especially Database Servers).

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: ncage

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Other than that, it's pretty tough (and unprofitable) to develop and ship applications for an Operating System that isn't available yet...

Obviously it's available since so many people are using it now. And most applications should be simple to port, just recompile and you're done unless you made a lot of stupid assumptions in your code.

For an application to REALLY take advantage of it, doesn't it have to be written to take advantage of the extra features? I mean, the extra GPR's would increase performance alone, but there are other additional features that would allow performance gains, isn't there?

Yes there is Jeff but to really see the difference you need to have an application that does a lot of calculations with 64 bit integer or Floating Point Numbers. You would see the biggest performance increases from games & server applications (especially Database Servers).

Yeah I know, I'm not talking about because it's 64-bit. I mean, aren't there features in the A64 core other than twice the amount, and twice as wide GPR's that aren't used in 32-bit mode? It's been a while since I read about all the architectural changes in x86-64.

 

[Nothinman]

For an application to REALLY take advantage of it, doesn't it have to be written to take advantage of the extra features? I mean, the extra GPR's would increase performance alone, but there are other additional features that would allow performance gains, isn't there?

Not really. There's no real extra features other than the GPRs and whatever SSE/2 support and the compiler will use the extra GPRs if it's a 64-bit target and most apps see no benefit from things like SSE.

 

[Gravity]

I finally uninstalled my 64 bit version of XP. Too much of my hardware wan't working.

 

[Nothinman]

It's bad form to resurrect old threads like this.