Anyone given up on 64 bit Vista and gone to 32 bit?

kirkster · 18 Nov 2007 at 13:05

Loads of stuff seems to behave erratically on 64 bit I have noticed - even Microsoft Word !! Google Earth is always crashing and my Adobe CS3 suite will not play ball either.

I am backing all my stuff up and going back to 32 Bit. Will my games like Bioshock be ok to reinstall?

Cheers, Steve

modo77 · 18 Nov 2007 at 13:23

All those programs work fine on 64bit, it must be something else causing your prob.

kirkster · 18 Nov 2007 at 13:25

What would you do then m8? DO a "repair" from the install disk?

modo77 · 18 Nov 2007 at 13:28

Good question, not sure where to start. What are those 3 apps doing? just crashing? Does the event log show anything, also check the report problems and solutions to see if that says anything helpful.

Edit: also have you got all the latest drivers for everything

Stolly · 18 Nov 2007 at 15:05

kirkster said:
Loads of stuff seems to behave erratically on 64 bit I have noticed - even Microsoft Word !! Google Earth is always crashing and my Adobe CS3 suite will not play ball either.

I am backing all my stuff up and going back to 32 Bit. Will my games like Bioshock be ok to reinstall?

Cheers, Steve

I've got two of those three and they work like a dream.

Burnsy2023 · 18 Nov 2007 at 15:25

I've not had issues with any of those programs

Burnsy

TheMightyTen · 18 Nov 2007 at 16:00

Vista x64 has been fine for me, what version of Office are you using? how much memory do you have? Are all your system drivers the most up to date ones?

refresh · 18 Nov 2007 at 17:53

I'm back to 32-bit for the drivers.

Skeeter · 18 Nov 2007 at 18:26

I gave up to the extent of going back to 32bit XP. I cant even get to my Vista install.... and Im not particularly bothered either.