Vista 32 bit and 64 bit, what are the differences ?

Damien. · 4 Sep 2007 at 08:58

Ive just installed vista 32 bit on my pc, received it off a mate who bought it and his pc wasnt powerful enough. I was just wondering is it worth buying my own, 64 bit version is there any vast changes etc ?

Thanks.

deuse · 4 Sep 2007 at 09:05

well the first thing to look at is can you get 64bit drivers for all your hardware ?
Vista 64 can use over 4gig of ram,and maybe with the right drivers it is faster
then the 32 version..

and i dont think there are any dirext10 64bit games coming,there are 64bit games
on XP but only a few.

Damien. · 4 Sep 2007 at 10:38

So with my spec, do you think ill be fine staying where i am.

deuse · 4 Sep 2007 at 10:41

With your spec it will run Ultimate just dandy (dont know what version you have)

i dual boot, i install xp first then vista,best of both worlds

Damien. · 4 Sep 2007 at 10:58

I got home premium. So far so good, personally i love vista atm, only reason i got it was for dx10 though.

something daft already!! · 4 Sep 2007 at 11:22

Dx10 has been a let down so far and I think it's a marketing ploy by Microsoft to push Vista. No DX10 games exhibit any noticeable differences to dx9 even Crysis producers said the bulk of it was done in DX9c and will look as good on that.

Having said that, i like using Vista over XP, I prefer it's explorer and GUI.