Micro204

With my current rig, I am looking at the getting vista with the dx10 goodies. I have xp and planing on dual booting. Does the 64bit still suffer from driver support?

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Go with 64-bit, to take advantage of the whole 4GB of RAM you have. Most (if not all) recent hardware will have 64-bit drivers available.

ericeod

No, Vista 64 does not have driver issues. I have used both Vista 32 and 64. IMO 64 is just as reliable as 32 bit. Every game I own works as well as Itunes and other programs. My vote is for Vista 64.

edit: I voted for 64 Home Premium because it can be found for a lot less then Ultimate, but still has a lot of features. it is lacking the Dream Scene screensaver, but I cant think of anything else.

If you are a student, you can find it for $69.

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Kingdavid216

vista 64, ive used it for quite some time now, i loved it, def go with that one

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Micro204

So does my 3870 be able to game in 1900x1200 with dx10 with high spec? or am i dreaming? lol

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I've used Vista Ultimate x64 for the weekend, here are some things you might consider:
-C&C3 Tiberium Wars is not compatible at all
-It takes some tweaking to get some applications work around the driver signature thing (you can disable the driver signature but you are required not to install 4 updates which could be quite useful)
-Most antivirus are compatible
-It's blazing fast
-There is a patch that you should apply if you are using a webcam and have 4GB of RAM or else you will have green lines all over the video output
-Wireless is the problem, some wireless cards aren't supported at all, some are supported with errors (for instance mine has 64-bit drivers through the chip manufacturer, but whenever I would upload something, the PC would lock up, speedtest.net would crash during the upload part)
-You get improvements in Crysis
-Rivatuner works
-The best defragmenting software for it is Auslogic Disk Defrag
-Spyware Doctor isn't compatible

and the lists continues...

If I didn't have my wireless issue, I would HAVE definitly stayed on Vista x64, but the fact that I can't even upload a single little file attachement to my email makes it completly useless.

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vista 64. love it

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Vista 64. No reason not to if your CPU supports it.

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Vista 64 -- 32bit Vista is a pointless upgrade from XP. Personally I'd recommend Business unless you have a dire need for Media Center or Parental Controls. It'll be supported longer, is less bloated and can handle up to 128GB of ram vs Premiums 8GB or so.

Jeez

vista 64 is pretty good so far. Only problem for me is Gears of War who still don't work.

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