Windows XP 64

[Pelu]

sup all I was wondering if there is some point on installing the XP 64 bit... for playing games... Right now I have vista 32... wondering if the change is worthed until W7 gets released...

 

[masteryoda34]

No Win XP x64 has bad driver support and lots of issues. Go for Vista if you want 64bit.

 

[heymrdj]

Why would you go backwards to XP 64

 

[Pelu]

need something 64 bit... to get the full 4gb of memory for some mod...

by the way what is the bad stuff of the drivers....? Is because they perform bad... or something... so far I only need the Catalyst and the xfi driver... both of them seems to be available for xp64... but dunno if they do well... or just messy

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: masteryoda34
No Win XP x64 has bad driver support and lots of issues. Go for Vista if you want 64bit.

Not this crap again.

Win XP x64 has drivers for the majority of devices. If it was made in the last two years, chances are it has driver for xp x64. It is a statement people make from hearsay not even having installed the OS themselves. Driver installs work the same as in xp 32 bit, nothing hard or messy about it. Performance is as good or better.

There is a reason why CG studios use it , and they wouldn't if it has lots of issues.
For gaming it really isn't going to matter since most games are not 64 bit. It will allow you to run more applications concurrently though.

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: masteryoda34
No Win XP x64 has bad driver support and lots of issues. Go for Vista if you want 64bit.

Not this crap again.

Win XP x64 has drivers for the majority of devices. If it was made in the last two years, chances are it has driver for xp x64. It is a statement people make from hearsay not even having installed the OS themselves. Driver installs work the same as in xp 32 bit, nothing hard or messy about it. Performance is as good or better.

There is a reason why CG studios use it , and they wouldn't if it has lots of issues.
For gaming it really isn't going to matter since most games are not 64 bit. It will allow you to run more applications concurrently though.

Doesn't mean Vista 64-bit isn't considerably better than it anyway.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: masteryoda34
No Win XP x64 has bad driver support and lots of issues. Go for Vista if you want 64bit.

Not this crap again.

Win XP x64 has drivers for the majority of devices. If it was made in the last two years, chances are it has driver for xp x64. It is a statement people make from hearsay not even having installed the OS themselves. Driver installs work the same as in xp 32 bit, nothing hard or messy about it. Performance is as good or better.

There is a reason why CG studios use it , and they wouldn't if it has lots of issues.
For gaming it really isn't going to matter since most games are not 64 bit. It will allow you to run more applications concurrently though.

Doesn't mean Vista 64-bit isn't considerably better than it anyway.

Actually Vista isn't better . Switching to vista would give people running xp x64 for work very little if anything.

vista will not increase cpu power, will not make more memory available, hard drive access will not be faster, storage will not increase, screen updates will not be faster, it doesn't increase work flow.

Really no reason why a studio would pay to change to vista.

 

[Pelu]

tryed xp64... and 4870x2... was more like 4870x1....

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Pelu
need something 64 bit... to get the full 4gb of memory for some mod...

by the way what is the bad stuff of the drivers....? Is because they perform bad... or something... so far I only need the Catalyst and the xfi driver... both of them seems to be available for xp64... but dunno if they do well... or just messy

The drivers will be fine. Nvidia and ATI have done a decent job at putting up good Win Xp64 drivers. If it strictly for gaming you will be fine. I had tons off issues with XP64 regarding drivers... but for peripherals that were either too new or too old and missed the XP64 development. Its a good OS and games run fine. I wouldn't pay for it if you have vista since you won't see a whole lot of gaming improvement if any.