Which Vista To Run

[willbemcse]

I am debating between 64bit or 32bit Vista?, I can drivers for my video card, printer.

 

[InlineFive]

Either, doesn't matter. Driver support is starting to get better but some companies (like nVidia) have still managed to do a terrible job.

 

[willbemcse]

Isn't running 32 bit application on 64bit OS will slow down the performance as 32bit run in a emulation mode.

 

[Gunther]

I tried the 64 bit for a day, but had some driver issues. I think that the 64 bit is strict in what drivers you can use. I believe all drivers in vista 64 have to be signed, but in 32 bit they don't have to be. Not 100% sure about it though.
To me there is no reason to really run 64 bit right now unless you have 4+ gigs of ram and/or you have applications that actually need 64 bit registers.

 

[stash]

Folks, there are several threads on this topic already. Please try to search first, so we can keep the noise on this forum down.

 

[willbemcse]

I dont have 4gb of memory only 3gb , some applications I have are 32 bit rest 64 bit and games are 32bit.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: willbemcse
Isn't running 32 bit application on 64bit OS will slow down the performance as 32bit run in a emulation mode.

No... it's not like running x86 code on an Itanium. As far as I understand it, there isn't any emulation to do, it's just different modes... like real mode and protected mode back in the day.

 

[Nothinman]

Isn't running 32 bit application on 64bit OS will slow down the performance as 32bit run in a emulation mode.

No, they execute at full speed in hardware. You do have to worry about having 32-bit versions of all of the required libraries installed too, but one would assume that MS has something in place to help that along.

 

[willbemcse]

SO IAM GOING TO SEE ANY PERFORMANCE GAIN BY GOING 64 BIT AND THE ONLY THING I SHOULD MAKE SURE IS THE DRIVERS ARE SIGNED .

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: willbemcse
SO IAM GOING TO SEE ANY PERFORMANCE GAIN BY GOING 64 BIT AND THE ONLY THING I SHOULD MAKE SURE IS THE DRIVERS ARE SIGNED .

GOOD LORD. It depends on the application, right now, probably a minimal difference.