Re: Vista SP1?

Yes so ..umm..ahh...on another note... 

my 30 day trial period of Vista 32 bit is expiring. I'm
looking to
purchase through the online Windows Marketplace.

Has anyone tried 64-bit Vista? I have 4GB of RAM, but of
course since
I have two 8800GTX cards with 1MB of video ram Vista 32bit
(and XP)
reports usable memory of about 2.75GB.

I've heard that things are a bit smoother with Vista 64, and
a tad more stable.

Anyone have good user reports?

On 19/03/2008, Jim Davis <HOFListsdepressedpress.com>
wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
>
> When you say that Vista SP1 improves performance by 80%
but is still slower
> than XP I want to see some more detail on that.  ;^)
>
> Jim Davis
>
>
> 

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I've used Vista Ultimate 64 bit since day one. I had 4 gigs
of ram for
awhile and every game but ARMA worked. ARMA fails with just
4 gigs of ram
less then that and its fine. But other then that its very
nice. Now i run 8
gigs of ram and i have been able to completely turn off the
paging file so i
get a very quick experience. All in all i have really
enjoyed vista. There
have been a few bumps in the road but my computer rocks
mostly.

2 Dual Core FX procs + 2 Geforce 8800 Ultras gives me some
honking good
power for most games. Only game so far that i can't play
maxed out is
Crysis.

On 3/20/08, Vivec <gel214thgmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes so ..umm..ahh...on another note... 
>
> my 30 day trial period of Vista 32 bit is expiring. I'm
looking to
> purchase through the online Windows Marketplace.
>
> Has anyone tried 64-bit Vista? I have 4GB of RAM, but
of course since
> I have two 8800GTX cards with 1MB of video ram Vista
32bit (and XP)
> reports usable memory of about 2.75GB.
>
> I've heard that things are a bit smoother with Vista
64, and a tad more
> stable.
>
> Anyone have good user reports?
>
> On 19/03/2008, Jim Davis <HOFListsdepressedpress.com> wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > When you say that Vista SP1 improves performance
by 80% but is still
> slower
> > than XP I want to see some more detail on that. 
;^)
> >
> > Jim Davis
> >
> >
> >
>
> 

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>Yes so ..umm..ahh...on another note... 
>
>my 30 day trial period of Vista 32 bit is expiring. I'm
looking to
>purchase through the online Windows Marketplace.
>
>Has anyone tried 64-bit Vista? I have 4GB of RAM, but of
course since
>I have two 8800GTX cards with 1MB of video ram Vista
32bit (and XP)
>reports usable memory of about 2.75GB.

The main issue is that 64 Bit Windows uses (you guessed it!)
64 bit addressing - so all memory addresses and pointers
take up twice the space.  This means that Vista 64 (or any
64 Bit OS, really) will take up significantly more RAM than
a 32 bit OS.  The benefit, of course, is that you can use
more memory.

A good article covering all this is here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/15/vista_workshop/


The article claims that 64bit apps (including Windows
itself) will run with 20-40% larger memory footprints due to
this.

In your case I woud guess (nothing more) that the memory
you'll reclaim from your video cards should be more than the
64 bit bloat - making it a net gain.  But it just won't be
as large a gain as you might hope.

Of course once you're on 64 Bit you may also consider moving
to 8 Gig (or more!) of RAM which would nicely eliminate that
concern as well.

I've not made the leap myself yet... my system is just plain
running too damn well for me to screw around with it too
much (these times are precious and should be savoured).  But
the next time I rebuild I'm considering it.

Jim Davis 

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