Buying Vista

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Neil Catling

Hi All
I am now going to buy vista for my gaming Pc,The question I have 'Is shall I
buy 32 bit or 64 bit' bearing in mind that I am only using this for games
and games only.
I will be buying ultimate.

Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks.



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32 Bit Windows XP
 
You probably won't see any benefit over 32-bit at the moment from
performance point of view, at least not with 32-bit apps and at least not
enough to overcome any lack of drivers you may face. It ultimately comes
down to that, if you've got completely compatible hardware, and you're
willing to face off a small number of games and other pieces of software
which aren't compatible then strongly consider it.

I'll point out though if you buy the retail version of Ultimate, it comes
with 32-bit and 64-bit in the box, so you can migrate over at a later date,
or you can test the 64-bit out first without activating it and see how it
runs, then replace it with 32-bit if needed.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Neil said:
Hi All
I am now going to buy vista for my gaming Pc,The question I have 'Is shall I
buy 32 bit or 64 bit' bearing in mind that I am only using this for games
and games only.
I will be buying ultimate.

Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks.
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Stick with XP. Seriously. I have a X2 4800+, 7800GT, 2GB RAM and it's
struggling with Battelfield 2 in 1280x1024 whereas under XP it flew.
 
It looks like you are running only 2 GB of RAM. If you plan on staying
there, then stick with 32 Bit. It is a tad faster in gaming and has better
compatibility. There really isn't any reason for a gamer to go to 64 Bit at
this time unless they are using 4GB+ of RAM. You won't notice any difference
with the 32 Bit and 64 Bit versions, performance wise.

When you do go with 64 Bit, though, you will have to do a clean install,
i.e. format the 32 Bit (or use different HD), rather than do an upgrade.
 
Stick with XP. Seriously. I have a X2 4800+, 7800GT, 2GB RAM and it's
struggling with Battelfield 2 in 1280x1024 whereas under XP it flew.
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That's probably related to the video driver not Windows Vista.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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I agree,

I have a single core AMD 64 - 4000+, 7600GS 2GB Ram, and BF2 files along
great, infact faster than on XP -SP2 in my opinion
 
Paul said:
That's probably related to the video driver not Windows Vista.
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It isn't. Currently on 101.41. Made no difference from the first 10x.x
versions. It's not a massive amount - maybe 10% or so but occassionally
I get jerko-vision as the HDD gets hammered.
 
Sounds like you're getting the problem a few people are seeing, (as well as
myself). I hooked up a 2nd monitor and ran the resource monitor and I see
the object_client.zip file and the common_client.zip file getting massive
reads. On gues reported going to 4GB of ram fixed that for him, which may
fix the problem. But throwing hardware money at a problem that only exists
in the Vista doesn't fly right with me. If 2GB of ram is works great under
XP, then it should be enough under Vista. Funny ehough, I haven't gotten
this under BF1942 or BF2142. Just BF2

Which is why I agree,until there are some DX10 games to play and the drivers
get sorted out, I'd stick with XP
 
Dale M. said:
Sounds like you're getting the problem a few people are seeing, (as well as
myself). I hooked up a 2nd monitor and ran the resource monitor and I see
the object_client.zip file and the common_client.zip file getting massive
reads.
Click to expand...

I've not heard about that but it certainly sounds like it could be
what's happening. It's not on every level either and there appears to
be no pattern to it.

Ho-hum.
 
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