VISTA DRIVERS : 32 / 64

FatRakoon

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Unless Im very much mistaken, I cannot find a list of Vista drivers where there exists for one and not for the other, however, I know that there are a few... Just dont know how much?

So, in an aid to help decide whether to go for 32 or 64 Bit, can anyone give any hardware that has 32 but not 64 drivers, and vice versa?

Thanks.
 
Yeah my flippin Lexmark Printer P6250 does not have 64bit support.
So I either use a print server (unsucessful with a Netgear P121) or buy a new printer.

:(
 
Someone here the other day posted that for any (Vista) drivers to get the WHQL certificate, they must come in 32bit and 64bit flavours.

So, I would imagine they will turn up sooner or later.
 
Yes, this is true.

I posted the other day saying that, although its probably not mine you read.

I gave it some leeway knowing that its not actually released just yet, but then again, who knows? This is MicroSoft after all, they never stick to what they say half the time.
 
So will it be better to get 64 bit or 32 bit edition if drivers have to have both versions included? Can vista 32 make use of 4 gigs of ram or is 64 more suited to that?
 
Right now, it wont make any difference whether you use 32 or 64 Bit.

As time goes on however, what you will find, is that as developers see the benefits of more RAM, you will find the need to have more and more RAM to actually run the programs and this is where 64Bit will outperform 32... You cannot possibly say that you wont need more RAM, because just look at the past...

It wasnt all that long ago when the averge PC has 512K and then 640K ( And Bill Gates said 640K is more than enough for anybody ) and then we had 1MB and then 2 and then 4,8,16,32 and so on, and then 256MB is an absolute minimum, 512K to run XP with any chance of doing more than notepad so today realistically 1GB for office work, and hell most of us are on 2GB and already Vista isnt even here and there is lots of talk about 4GB!!!!

No, RAM is VITAL, and more so each and every day, and Vista32 will be limited to 4GB while Vista64 can talk towards 128GB!!!

Of course, we then also need the Mobo that will take over 4GB because standard Desktop Motherboards at this time dont actually do anymore do they? - thats one thing that a lot of people who try to pimp the 64Bit version of Vista dont seem to realise... Its a waste of time to mention that and any version other than Retail64.
 
FatRakoon said:
It wasnt all that long ago when the averge PC has 512K and then 640K ( And Bill Gates said 640K is more than enough for anybody ) and then we had 1MB and then 2 and then 4,8,16,32 and so on, and then 256MB is an absolute minimum, 512K to run XP with any chance of doing more than notepad so today realistically 1GB for office work, and hell most of us are on 2GB and already Vista isnt even here and there is lots of talk about 4GB!!!!
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It wasn't that long ago when the average PC had 512k RAM??
When I left college at 18 and got my first job in the computer industry selling PC's we were in the 4mb-8mb world and that was 13 years ago.

As pointed out above your Bill Gates quote...well...isn't.
 
So? When I left colledge, they were 512K / 640K and the Norm O/S was DOS3.3 or GEM... Windows? What was that?

Its not supposed to be too literral, its just a list of numbers to show how much RAM PCs had.

And no, I dont think it was THAT long ago actually.

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Yes, we know the bill gates quote is wrong, get in the back of the queue.
 
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