SiriusB said:
Someone, whoever they were, said it best with "If you need to ask about using x64 then you probably don't need it".
Pretty much how I feel on the subject lol.
SiriusB
That was me.
Its looking more and more, that WinXP64 will be another landmark similar to Windows ME.
In a lot of ways, it seems to be a flop, and yet a success story too.
A Flop in that its too close to the release of Vista, and a success in that its compatibility is so good... I feel that a lot of people who say that its incompatible, or slower / faster are quite probably the ones who have not actually used it.
I know that I tried the free download trial version, threw it onto my MSI Neo2 & Winchester 3200 ( Only 64Bit PC I had at the time ) and I found that although I was unable to install the drivers fully as I could not get the modem running to go ontothe net to search, what I did find, it was lightning quickcompared to XP32 and yet now that I have bought the full jobbie, its no quicker than 32Bit at all on any of my current 64Bit PCs.
I have tried it on 6 different PCs now and I have yet to actually get far enough into it to warrant wasting the license on any given PC and so its still not being fully used, so, in many ways it has been a waste of mony for me.
Compatibility-wise its been great... The few apps that do have issues, are anythign that runs on startup, such as PageDeFrag, but also Partition Magic has been weird in that it works 100% fine, but if it needs to shut the PC down to do other tasks, these tasks wont work, and other than that, its been flawless for 100% of my games.