32-bit vs 64-bit

Burnsy2023 · 6 Mar 2008 at 12:21

PR. said:
People who use Virtual Machines in x64, do you use MS's Virtual PC?

Nope, I use VMware as I need the enhanced networking support, never had any problems with it

Burnsy

Snakedoctor · 6 Mar 2008 at 12:29

bledd. said:
my only quarm is no fully working mkv 64bit codec for 64bit media centre

for this reason i'm changing back to 32bit for the time being on my media centre pc

ALL my other software works fine

The issues with Media Centre and codecs is not a problem for me. I use Vista Codec Pack with 64 bit tools. The problem with Media centre I have, is caused by the Nvidia drivers which were released after 163.75. I either get smudges of black on screen with 174.xx or with 169.xx I get choppy frames going back and forth, 171.xx seems ok apart from random black screens and BSODs. I have given up on media centre and only use Media player. x64 media player is fine.

Using 163.75 and no problems with Video but cant play many of my games.

bledd · 6 Mar 2008 at 12:30

virtualbox is a good alternative too, it doesn't have the huge networking options that vmware has, but it's perfect for internet use on it..

Turbophonic, by default the windows media player in x64 is the 32bit one, hence no problems

no_1_dave · 6 Mar 2008 at 13:42

Turophobic said:
The issues with Media Centre and codecs is not a problem for me. I use Vista Codec Pack with 64 bit tools. The problem with Media centre I have, is caused by the Nvidia drivers which were released after 163.75. I either get smudges of black on screen with 174.xx or with 169.xx I get choppy frames going back and forth, 171.xx seems ok apart from random black screens and BSODs. I have given up on media centre and only use Media player. x64 media player is fine.

Using 163.75 and no problems with Video but cant play many of my games.

Set Noise Reduction to 1 in your nvidia options

Snakedoctor · 6 Mar 2008 at 14:01

no_1_dave said:
Set Noise Reduction to 1 in your nvidia options

Cheers, I will give it a whirl tonight.

Snakedoctor · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:34

Nice one Dave, that sorted it!

I know media player is 32 bit by default, but when using the 64 bit version its fine. It all ok now though!

GingerNinja1989 · 6 Mar 2008 at 19:21

crazyDAJT said:
there are some finer points to it, there is a link kicking around, but essential the maximum 64bit can use is 128GB (i think). its all about running out of addresses for your memory.

Window limits it to that, but in reality a 64-bit architecture can indeed handle 16 exabytes or some stoopid amount of RAM.

Rackerz · 6 Mar 2008 at 19:52

Yep, we shouldn't need a change from 64bit for 10 years yet

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Vertigo · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:03

Notice quite a few people running 64-bit Vista with only 2GB of memory - err, why!?

Vista x86 really needs 4GB to perform properly, let alone the 64-bit version.

no_1_dave · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:39

Turophobic said:
Nice one Dave, that sorted it!

No problem, it wound me up for months too lol

Theguy · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:39

my girlfriend's comp is on x64 with only 2gb of ram. it doesnt run slower on x64 then it did on x86.. i did some quick tests.
plus it allows people the luxery of later on buying more ram and not having to buy a new version of vista.

NathanE · 6 Mar 2008 at 22:08

Vertigo1 said:
Notice quite a few people running 64-bit Vista with only 2GB of memory - err, why!?

Vista x86 really needs 4GB to perform properly, let alone the 64-bit version.

Lies. 2GB is plenty for Vista 32-bit. But yes most OcUK'ers will opt for 4GB because they want a nice big Superfetch cache

Yes x64 requires more but not loads more. It really depends how many x64 applications you use - which is probably "not many" at the moment.