rudnicke
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join:2004-10-23
Rantoul, IL | Is XP-64bit or XP-32bit better for gaming? I'm in the process of building a gaming system. Games are the only thing for which this system will be used. Is it better to run WinXP 64bit or 32bit?
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knightry
I'm Not Fat, I'm Festively Plump
join:2002-05-06
Oviedo, FL
| Re: Is XP-64bit or XP-32bit better for gaming? At this point, save yourself driver headaches and stick w/ 32-bit Windows. I don't think there are really any games out as of now that really take advantage of the performance boost you could theoretically get from running a game in a 64-bit OS. Perhaps in a year or so it might be worth it, but, IMO, right now, it'll be easier to just use 32-bit.
I also say this because I tried 64-bit Windows a while back and ended up pulling my hair out because of lack of driver support. I couldn't find any drivers for my Audigy 2, and although ATI had drivers for my card, they refused to install. In addition, my chipset drivers, although installed, didn't seem to let me use USB half the time. But this was about 6 months back, so I'm sure it's gotten a bit better since then, but still...
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 | chevyss85
join:2005-07-13
Snyder, TX
| Re: Is XP-64bit or XP-32bit better for gaming? I have to agree, I just built a new system and I used Win 64-Bit and I have run into that some games will not even load. I am sure that there will be an advantage one day but as for now not really. More of a dissadvantage. I have also read were all 32 apps will run in 64 bit, it would just use 32 bits of the 64. Not true, Realplayer, AVG, and many others will not load on a 64 bit machine. So the choice is yours, just though I would throw my 2 cents in.
Happy building.:)
PS - on the games that run in true 64 bit, FarCry is about the only one I have seen but I am a little behind on games. FarCry is awesome in 64 bit though. | |
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
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join:2004-04-13
Canada
| Re: Is XP-64bit or XP-32bit better for gaming? said by chevyss85  :PS - on the games that run in true 64 bit, FarCry is about the only one I have seen but I am a little behind on games. FarCry is awesome in 64 bit though. farcry, soldner, jointops are the ones i can pull off the top of my head. | |
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
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join:2004-04-13
Canada | Re: Is XP-64bit or XP-32bit better for gaming? intels chip is basically a duplicate of the AMD chip in the major sense of it. | |
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B777300
join:2002-01-02
2 edits | Stay with 32bit for now..
Anyway at the moment most 64bit compilers don't take full advantage of the extra 8 general purpose registers(x86 has 8,x86-64 has 16) and this an important reason why 64bit doesn't give us a signifact performance increase over 32bit.
And in fact its not easy to take advantage of those extra 8 registers, cause compilers after all are just machines\programs, they don't know what are you trying to do.. they're just translating your instructions into a working binary code.
Obviously, complied code isn't going to be as fast as assembly code anytime soon, but compilers will improve over the time and will utilize those 8 extra instructions x86-64 has to offer better. | |
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salan
join:2004-10-04
Canada | hardware- 64bit
software- 32bit
when u buy hardware for 64bit, it will save you costs when you upgrade ur OS to 64bit in the coming future | |
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