Vista 32/64 bit

Philio · 18 May 2007 at 23:52

I have 4Gb ram in my machine, so to use it all I need to use Vista 64 bit... Problem is I'm having tonnes of compatibility issues

Half the programs I have run so far have just crashed for no reason!

I did have 32 bit installed until today, it worked perfectly no problems with any programs however I only get 2.75Gb of the RAM usable.

Anyone know if there is anyting I can do to make Vista 64 bit more usable... I'm in kinda a loose/loose situationg here....

Philio · 18 May 2007 at 23:59

It's not really anything major but its annoying..

I have to unplug and plug in the bluetooth dongle for my keyboard and mouse on every bootup
The NVIDIA Monitor app crashes on run
The autostart app for my front panel crashes on run

All this worked perfectly in 32 bit.

Edit: All drivers are up to date I let Vista install it's defaults for everything and just installed the NVIDIA Forceware/nForce drivers and Logitech setpoint.

Philio · 19 May 2007 at 13:49

It looks I am going to have to go back to 32 bit, 64 bit clearly has issues, shame really as it seams faster than 32 bit.

Philio · 19 May 2007 at 21:44

I am considering it actually, I have spent a lot of time reading up on the differences between 64 bit and 32 bit Vista just to try and get an idea of what could be causing the problems. A few people have said that reinstalling has sorted problems because they installed a dodgy driver or something.

I'll have to give it go later, if things are still not working then back to 32 bit.

Thanks for the input

Philio · 20 May 2007 at 00:47

Well I reinstalled, removed 2Gb RAM to avoid the startup crash bug, reset everything to the BIOS to default for CPU/RAM etc so it couldn't possibly be anything else, first boot ran only the programs I was having issues with (no drivers) and the issues still exist... The problem is definately x64 compatibility so looks like I am back to 32bit and loose a gig of ram

Philio · 20 May 2007 at 02:13

It's an interesting idea, however I don't think this is the problem as I am using the full hard drive of the same drive each time. I think 64 bit just needs to mature a little, maybe SP1... I will use 32 bit for now and try it again when SP1 is available.