64 bit operating systems?

Hi, I have been hearing more and more about 64 bit operating systems, and I am getting curious. What do they have over 32 bit, is it worth getting, do you need anything special, and does it have conflicts with games?

cheers

-D'artagnan

what does 64bit Vista have against 32bit Vista? 64bit application support. plain and simple. no reason to get 32bit Vista if you have 64bit cpu. it supports 32bit apps too.

does it have conflicts with games?-Dartagnan-

no more than with 32bit Vista. WinXP is still the best gaming platform, but all my games have worked perfectly on 64bit Vista.

Hi, I have been hearing more and more about 64 bit operating systems, and I am getting curious. What do they have over 32 bit, is it worth getting, do you need anything special, and does it have conflicts with games?

cheers

-D'artagnan

-Dartagnan-

64bit will give you better performance in games. Like in crysis it will, give you a 10%-15% more performance. Also as far as I know, its the only windows system that really takes advantage of 4 gigs of ram. I think, but im not sure.

64 bits will really be NEEDED in a little while ... so when you buy vista, it's 150$ you better take the 64 bits right away

... a few old games don't run in that 64 bit operation system ... but it's nothing dramatic, the big games that still have the online fonctionalities supported will have patches for running in 64 bits

but i truely recommand staying with XP for now ... vista isn't THAT great ... but i got to admit that direct X 10 is awesome, mostly for crysis

I use Windows XP Professional 64-bit. It is an awesome OS, and I recommend it only if you know what you are doing and have the hardware. No game conflicts. The only bad thing about Xp Pro 64-bit vs. Vista 64-bit, is that some hardware companies neglect XP Pro64x. But that hasnt stopped me from playing M2:TW or DarkStar One or BF2, etc.DarthMaul135

Vista 64 bit doesn't have a lot of the issues that xp 64 bit had. MS decided to make any WHQL driver submissions for all products require both a 32 bit and 64 bit submission for Vista. This forces 64 bit into the mainstream and assures that vista 32 and 64 bit both have equal hardware compatabilities.

The only upside to 32 bit would be that it can run 16 bit applications (Try and name one you still use) and uses slightly less memory.

The advantages to 64 bit are that it can run both 64 bit and 32 bit programs (at similar or better speeds)andis capable of using more than the 3 gigs of memory 32 bit is capped at.

64 bit is the future, if you have 2GB of memory or more or plan on upgrading to 4GB of memory within the next couple of years I would deffinatley go with 64 bit.

Pros:
Can play enhanced 64-bit games (including Crysis, best experienced on 64-bit, "the 64-bit version "will bring a performance difference of up to 10 to 15 percent on each thread" compared to the 32-bit version" )

Can have more than approximately 3GB ram (typical 32-bit limitation) another take... "Don't bother getting more than 3GB of Ram"

Better security than 32-bit "64-bit Windows Vista the most secure and reliable Windows ever"

Cons: if you are running older hardware, or alot of peripheral hardware (particularly older) that is important, verify the 64-bit drivers exist.

Personal slant: It rocks! I'm running Vista x64 (also have a laptop running x86 Vista) I've had no problems with drivers, or running 32-bit progams/games. If you've never run Vista before though, most likely you'll hit some incompatibility issues that you'd have with 32-bit as well. DOSBox should be good enough for 16-bit apps. If not, it sounds like you're stuck in time anyway :D