The move to 64-bit Windows

[Kraeoss]

*nods head* yeap that's about it there hehe thnks Capt. for the recap.

[Bone]

just what i wanted
thanks @ ARC and CAPn A
really put in a nutshell for me

[Kraeoss]

ok so i made the shift yesterday... os got corrupted.... MBR dissapeared :/  so far it looks like i''ll have to reinstall all the games seeing that there is a dx error thing that comes up on games i used to run after new os installs....

[W1nTry]

been running 64-bit vista a lil while now... not sure what are my problems if any... meaning i've been running some OLD games and having some issues (namely Orange box) but am not sure if its a OS issue or otherwise... if you're using 4Gb of memory or more, there is NO sense in a 32-bit OS.

[Netizen1]

ok so i made the shift yesterday... os got corrupted.... MBR dissapeared :/  so far it looks like i''ll have to reinstall all the games seeing that there is a dx error thing that comes up on games i used to run after new os installs....

I think you need to install DirectX 9.0 on Vista (32 or 64 bit)

[W1nTry]

It's not that it doesn't work. It just gives trouble. I played through the whole of HL2 Ep1 without a hiccup and was playing through HL2 Ep2 but the game is a bit 'jumpy' and I reached a part where the game just feezes...

[Kraeoss]

yea... seems dx is a bieatch when comes to Vx64 so i installed 1 game and voila all worxx hehe so far the only thing is that it kinda bogs down and damn i didnt know that you have 2 program files folders 1 for x86/64 lol

[W1nTry]

A review from tom's hardware about gaming in 64-bit:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/64-bit-vista-gaming,review-31535.html