GNU Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 I see but one important question. Is XP64 faster in games than XP and in applications? I need an exact answer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sw4y Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 A good example is HL2 32bit vs 64bit. Search it on google. There were 2 differences that the reviewers noticed. The main difference was that the maps loaded ~2x faster and the second was that the lighting especially in the water, looked better. Other then that, there isnt a difference, YET. EDIT: Reading over the review again, they did fix the glare issue with the water. So no difference but load times. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 Okay and in Apps? Any difference? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k0nsl Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 I don't know to be honest. I've tried XP x64 for a couple of weeks now and have found it to be very stable and I have not experianced anything bad about it either. -k0nsl in everyones oppinion is it worth the trouble to switch to a 64 bit OS and also rite now im running jsut plain xp 32 is it worth the thole reformatign and then installing all the other programs again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
centy Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 I don't know to be honest. I've tried XP x64 for a couple of weeks now and have found it to be very stable and I have not experianced anything bad about it either.-k0nsl Not in my opinion no, windows xp32 all the way. It didn't help that I wanted to play Chaos Thoery at the time, and this is not possible on XP64. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 x64 Edition is very stable and very fast. Foolish if you haven't tried the free Trial. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sw4y Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Its not worth the work to get it working. Just wait for Vista. In my opinion, taking another couple days to get it setup isnt worth it because XP is blazing fast as it is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyr0 Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 a couple of days? it installs in less than 20 mins and drivers are easily found for the main hardware in your pc it takes me longer to reinstall xp sp2 than xp64 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banusflakes Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Yeah I don't know where you guys are coming up with these statements that it takes a long time to set up xp64. I was up and running in under 40 minutes. Sure there were some uninstalled devices but most of that was straightened out right away and there were no stability issues. IMO it's very fast, very stable and works great with both 64bit and 32bit apps. I can't see any reason not to use it if you are building a new machine with a 64bit processor and you need to buy a new copy of windows. If you already have a machine running well on xp32 then the argument for upgrading is not as strong. 64bit support is only going to increase and vista is still a long way off. So there you have my opinion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonsupreme Posted April 29, 2006 Posted April 29, 2006 hi guys i'm having trouble with this, the raid f6 silicon driver that i downloaded from the official website, after running the software that sets it up on my floppy disc i restarted my system with xp64... pressed f6 etc... now when it asks me to specify the drivers i press S and it says to me "Unreconised File System" now the weird thing is when i set up the 32 bit silicon raid drivers on my floppy disc i have noticed it has folders but the 64x silcon drivers does not have any folders set up, i was wondering if everything was setup scrabled on the floppy disc and nothing in the right location, can someone help me please, or is there somewhere else i can get the silcon raid 64x drivers 3114 Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted April 29, 2006 Posted April 29, 2006 Did you try the drivers at the Silicon Garbage err, I mean Image website? I think there are multiple ones (one for x64 Raid and one for Raid 5 and one for straight SATA -1206). Sounds like it's the wrong OS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonsupreme Posted April 29, 2006 Posted April 29, 2006 hey dude thanks i'm gonna try this out and let you know how it goes, just one though... the ones from this site does not have an auto floppy disc setup sould i just drag everything over to the floppy disc? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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