seattledesi
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might as well write this out for those wanting to use their shiny amd 64's properly, and have access to the rc2 build..
I installed rc2 today, with the hopes of playing farcry 64-bit soon.. plus I read everywhere that the 32-bit games are working as well or better in the 64-bit OS, even though its hosted by the wow64 emulator.
Surprisingly, install was super smooth. Kudos MS!
Created a boot disk out of the ISO.. setup ran error free.. it does ask for a PID, so have one ready.
The OS already had drivers for my wireless NIC from Belkin, which uses BroadCom.
After setup, i installed the latest nforce4 chipset and forceware drivers for the x64. No probs there..
After a lot of searching, I got the latest realtek ac97 drivers for the alc850 from www.planetamd64.com.. frakkin realtek site has bad links.
Ran Halo for the PC using -timedemo. Blue screen! 🙁 Naughty realtek driver.
Uninstalled it and used nvidia's audio codec instead (which uses some realtek version under the covers).. this got installed with the nforce chipset install.
Halo ran super smooth. Timedemo reported 77fps for 1024x768, 85hz, no vsync, all settings high. This is the same fps as the 32-bit OS. very impressive!
Now if AMD / Crytek would release that Farcry patch, that would be sweet.. the screenshots look great!
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Com...ns/0,,30_288_11054_11056^11074,00.html
I installed rc2 today, with the hopes of playing farcry 64-bit soon.. plus I read everywhere that the 32-bit games are working as well or better in the 64-bit OS, even though its hosted by the wow64 emulator.
Surprisingly, install was super smooth. Kudos MS!
Created a boot disk out of the ISO.. setup ran error free.. it does ask for a PID, so have one ready.
The OS already had drivers for my wireless NIC from Belkin, which uses BroadCom.
After setup, i installed the latest nforce4 chipset and forceware drivers for the x64. No probs there..
After a lot of searching, I got the latest realtek ac97 drivers for the alc850 from www.planetamd64.com.. frakkin realtek site has bad links.
Ran Halo for the PC using -timedemo. Blue screen! 🙁 Naughty realtek driver.
Uninstalled it and used nvidia's audio codec instead (which uses some realtek version under the covers).. this got installed with the nforce chipset install.
Halo ran super smooth. Timedemo reported 77fps for 1024x768, 85hz, no vsync, all settings high. This is the same fps as the 32-bit OS. very impressive!
Now if AMD / Crytek would release that Farcry patch, that would be sweet.. the screenshots look great!
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Com...ns/0,,30_288_11054_11056^11074,00.html
