Time for the 64-bit jump?

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Well I'm still plodding along on 32-bit XP as I never saw the point in moving sideways to 32-bit Vista. What I've always said to myself is that, when I move to Vista, it'll be to 64-bit but, until recently, I've always thought this would be fraught with too many problems.

So how "safe" is it to jump ship right now? How much stuff still has problems under 64-bit Vista? Obviously major apps will be ok but I'm thinking more along the lines of the free antivirus/firewall products such as AVG & ZoneAlarm, plus games such as COD4, TF2, SupCom, DiRT and so forth.

Although this may be incomprehensible to some of the less "honest" members of the forum, I will be buying Vista but it wil be the OEM version and so will have to take the 64-bit plunge complete - i.e I won't have a 32-bit version to fall back on should I have loads of grief, a la retail edition. I'm therefore reluctant to fork out for it if I'm going to end up running, screaming back to XP within a few days :)
 
Same here, thinking about go to 64 bit.

Just to add to your question, can anyone tell me how the older games fare in 64bit? ta
 
Check out this article. It's about 4 months old.

I'm doing the same thing. Got an OEM copy of 64bit for my new build. I'm expecting some niggles, but I want to use a lot of RAM and new technology is fun.
 
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So how "safe" is it to jump ship right now? How much stuff still has problems under 64-bit Vista? Obviously major apps will be ok but I'm thinking more along the lines of the free antivirus/firewall products such as AVG & ZoneAlarm, plus games such as COD4, TF2, SupCom, DiRT and so forth.
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I've got "vista 64-bit ultimite OEM". Never had one problem, Runs perfect.;)

COD4, battlefield 2 ect all run fine. Not one game has an issue even old titles like Mafia run great.

As for AV software there are lots of options. I'm using avast with no issues. Never had a virus.
Even programs that are not designed to run on 64-bit do.



Don't know why people still think 64-bit is a huge problem.
Never understood it :confused:. I've run it from the time it came out - till now and can't find anything wrong with it.
 
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I am using Vista Business 64 bit, the only issue I have is with a soundcard driver, the soundcard (Terratec DMX 6Fire) is quite old and Terratec have not released a proper signed driver for it, only beta's, the issue is not that it doesn't work, but that each time I reboot, without uninstalling/reinstalling driver in Device Manager, that is slight distortion in sound produced.

Apart from that all other drivers/programs work well, one or two programs I have had to run in XP SP2 Compatability Mode, but that is no problem.

No problem with firewall/antivirus/antispyware programs either, all work well. :)
 
Using Vista 64, nothing wrong with it. It's the future anyway, so you may as well jump ship before everyone starts drowning.

The only problem I've had is a webcam driver, but it's old anyway. As long as you have 2GB+ of RAM 64bit will fly ;).
 
Running 64bit here with few problems so far. Infact the only problems i've had are Coretemp not working (Which now works), and an unsigned driver for something i didn't really need anyway.

All major apps and games work fine. Vista seems snappier. Call it placebo effect if you want too, but the whole thing seems to run a little bit smoother than the 32bit version. And all in all much nicer to use than XP. PC hasn't been turned off in a fair while due to running it in Sleep and the only reason i've had to restart is for updates.

Main problem now is persuading myself not to spend more money upgrading to 8Gb of ram!
 
Seems fine to me. Only problem I've got is my Linksys PCI wireless card doesn't seem to have a proper driver, so I have to use the chipset (Ralink) one.
 
try it out mate. If you can get a copy of the retail version you can install it without a product key for trial. You get 30 days but that can be extended to 3 months IIRC (maybe 4). If you like it, buy it and enter your serial number.

I'm doing this ATM with XP on a dual boot. I'm gonna buy it I think. I had a few niggles but it's going smoothly now.
 
I'm with the majority.

Running Vista Enterprise x64 with 4GB RAM. No problems to report.

I'm probably use older software than most. I've tried Dungeon Keeper 2, The Thing, MAME, SNES9x, WinUAE and many more and all work fine.

In fact the only game that has caused me problems is Lord of the Rings Online. If you use the Admin account then you need to turn of User Account Control to run it. Yet it runs in DirectX 10 lovliness (and looks stunning in game it has to be said).

Weird that they've not fixed it yet.



M.
 
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