Upgrading to Vista 64bit

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Dillinger

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Going to finally be biting the bullet and upgrading to Vista 64-bit, mainly to take advantage of my 4GB of RAM.

I haven't kept up with Vista news and such, but how is it for gaming nowadays? More specifically, how is 64 bit for gaming? Any thoughts/tips are appreciated.
 
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Fedorov

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i don't know, but I want to do the same thing and I would also like to add another question:

should it be better to re-download RO? or just copying the files in the new steam folder will do?, because I don't know how it works, does Steam download a 64 bit version of it?, or there is only one 32 bit version that works for everybody?
 
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Hirmuinen

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Dillinger said:
I haven't kept up with Vista news and such, but how is it for gaming nowadays? More specifically, how is 64 bit for gaming? Any thoughts/tips are appreciated.
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I have been using Vista 64 for a half a year now and still don't understand what's with the hate toward it is all about.

Works really good and I woudn't switch to XP ever again. Just remember to switch off the security thing that is on when you first use it(don't remember what it was, but you will see when it asks permissions every application you open ect.).
 
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Dcode

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I have been holding off Vista for ages but after upgrading to Core i7 and 6GB of RAM it was necessary.

I am running Vista x64 business and after 1 weekend of messing around and reinstalling twice i have got it working just great. Give it a week to 'settle in' as there is a lot of hard drive thrashing due to file indexing and superfetch.

As far as support goes:

All my drivers work without any problems. nVidia who was notorious for making dog **** Vista 64 drivers installed and work without blinking an eyelid.

Sound Blaster Xtreme Gamer drivers work without problems.

Motherboard drivers was downloaded from Intel for my X58. I did have problems with my DVD drive after installing Service Pack 1, but installing the Intel Matrix Storage Manager fixed these issues.

Just make sure you hunt for 64 bit versions of your software such as any DVD image mounting software, disk de-fraggers and most importantly; anti virus software.

There are two Program Files entries in C:, Program Files x86 and Program files x64. Non native 64 bit software goes in the former and native goes in the latter.

All my Steam games work fine including Killing Floor and RO. As for the question of copying the folder, run your Steam backup utility and backup RO. You can restore this after you have installed Vista and it will work fine. I did this for all my games when i was running XP 32 and they all restored just fine.

I did try XP Pro x64 but after installing my chipset drivers i had terrible mouse problems so i went back to Vista, but the option is there for you decide Vista is not for you. Remeber that you can always download a 'trial' for both.

If you do go for Vista make sure you download Service Pack 2.
 
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Hirmuinen said:
I have been using Vista 64 for a half a year now and still don't understand what's with the hate toward it is all about.

Works really good and I woudn't switch to XP ever again. Just remember to switch off the security thing that is on when you first use it(don't remember what it was, but you will see when it asks permissions every application you open ect.).
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User Account Control.
 
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I'm using vista ultimate x64 for about 2 years now and everything works fine. every program i wanted to install yet worked and since sp1 vista has nearly the same performance as xp has (maybe 1 or 2 fps less but who cares about 2 fps). also there is no special 64 bit version of RO, you can just copy the files and play, there's no need to redownload it.
however, maybe you should better wait for windows 7 because it runs more smooth and is just like how vista should have been. I think the release date is 10th of october, so not too far away to wait for it.
 
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I'm running Vista 64 bit and no problems so far, most 32 bit programs can run on a 64 bit OS. For gaming, everything runs fine. The only "problem" I can think of is that there aren't many programs designed to take advantage of 64 bit yet :p
 
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Fedorov

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I asked because i think there is an AMD 64 logo when you load RO, so I thought there was a 64 bit version of the game that took advantage of the 64 bits
 
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Dillinger

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Thanks for the replies, guys. Seems like it'll be no big deal from what you guys are saying. I'm looking forward to using the extra gig of RAM that's just sitting unused in my machine right now! :D Wish I could be as excited to use DirectX10.... :( haha

Transferring stuff to my external drive now, hopefully will have the drive wiped, Vista installed and everything back to normal by late tonight.
 
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Is this the first time you'll be using Vista? If so, it may appear pretty strange at first with huge icons and stuff, but once you customize it to your liking, it's great. I actually like it better than XP.
 
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I have been using Vista 64bit and it works fine. The only things that have not worked for me were the very few freeware programs that I tried to download, but most worked fine.

That, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory's patch does not work. Otherwise I have had no issues.

If I were you, I'd just wait for Windows 7 though. No point in upgrading to an OS that will be out dated in a few months.
 
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Dillinger

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Volodnikov said:
Is this the first time you'll be using Vista? If so, it may appear pretty strange at first with huge icons and stuff, but once you customize it to your liking, it's great. I actually like it better than XP.
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I've been using a Vista theme for XP for a while now, so I'm used to the big icons. ;)

As for waiting till Windows 7, I don't get OS's right upon release. With XP, I waited, same with Vista. I'll eventually upgrade to 7, but my office was getting rid of Vista and I took one of the CDs, so a free OS upgrade is worth it. It's the ultimate edition, so might as well.
 
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Dillinger

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Been fooling with this all night, can't get it to install. Keeps telling me it can't find a CD/DVD driver even though I'm pointing it to it. Pointed it to the drivers for the motherboard and everything else and it can't figure it out. It has to know the ****ing DVD drive is there, that's how it's being installed. Guhhh.. Lots of Googling has led me nowhere.
 
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Dcode

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Dillinger said:
Been fooling with this all night, can't get it to install. Keeps telling me it can't find a CD/DVD driver even though I'm pointing it to it. Pointed it to the drivers for the motherboard and everything else and it can't figure it out. It has to know the ****ing DVD drive is there, that's how it's being installed. Guhhh.. Lots of Googling has led me nowhere.
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Post me your motherboard make and model chief.
 
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