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Hi I play skyrim a lot and it seems a lot of the players are using windows 7 64bit,is 64 that much better. I was going to add more memory but the guy in the shop said windows 7 32 bit would not use the extra memory. looking at my system is it a big job to go over to 64 bit. thanks in advance
 
What operating system are you running?

If you have Win 7 you can download a 64bit image through a good source and insert your license key, this would be a fresh install so back-up all important data.
 
no just buy a 64bit version windows 7 and install it, or if you got the retail version allready use the 64bit dvd instaed. would require wiping your boot drive and starting again though, which can be a big job if you got al= lot of stuff not backed up.
 
Marky said:
As far as I remember - 32 bit only supports a maximum of 4GB of RAM.
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That's total ram. So say you have a 1GB gfx card, then a few hundred MB in other places. Will leave with just under 3GB of main ram.

If you have win7 go 64bit, it makes no sense sticking with 32bit.
 
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Thanks for all the replies I am running 32 bit at present, and I do have the 64 bit dvd which came with windows 7. my graphics card has 2 gb.
 
Def install the 64 bit version, but this will entail a fresh install as I mentioned earlier.
 
How much system ram and how much gpu ram do you have? Whilst running the 32 bit os, your system will only recognise just under 4gb of total ram, if you have more than this then running 64 bit os then the os will recognise all of your ram upto 16 gb, I think I'm right saying this. So your game will be able to use all of your ram.
 
4Gbis the x86 maximum addressing, though windows tops out at 3.75 (ish) so you've not using most of the systems memory and being unable to address that will likely limit you to single channel too. Not to mention it somewhat cripples the cpu.
 
+1 for 64 bit, as people have said, you can use your legit cd key on a W7 64 bit copy and I think the difference would be noticeable as it was on my laptop.
 
As mentioned a couple of posts above, 32-bit versions of windows can address ~3.75Gb of memory total. Looking at the spec in your sig, you have 4Gb of system RAM and 2Gb of graphics ram. So, 6Gb of memory, total, and your computer can only use ~3.75Gb of it. That's about 1/3 of it thats just sitting around useless. A 64-bit OS will be able to address all of the memory, meaning you'll see improvements in most modern games as they will be able to take full advantage of all your GPU and system memory.
 
iviv said:
As mentioned a couple of posts above, 32-bit versions of windows can address ~3.75Gb of memory total. Looking at the spec in your sig, you have 4Gb of system RAM and 2Gb of graphics ram. So, 6Gb of memory, total, and your computer can only use ~3.75Gb of it. That's about 1/3 of it thats just sitting around useless. A 64-bit OS will be able to address all of the memory, meaning you'll see improvements in most modern games as they will be able to take full advantage of all your GPU and system memory.
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Iviv: Wrong! Graphic memory is totally seperate from system memory & has no bearing on overall total of system memory.

Windows 7 64bit memory limit, is Home 16gb, & Professional & Ultimate is 192gb.
And W7 32bit is limit to 4gb regardles whether it's Home,Pro or Ultimate, of which the pc see wiil see around 3.75gb of it.
 
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That is an arbitrary Windows restriction not a result of the addressing size (which you cannot change). The example you have is comparing two 64bit Windows editions, not 32 and 64 bit. They are totally unrelated.
 
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