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Title: XP 64.
Post by: White Giant on November 03, 2007, 09:47:02 AM

So Im gonna give XP64 a crack. Im running XP32 at the moment.

Can I install it side by side with 32? Will there be a nice little boot loader like with Vista/XP duel booting?

Anything I should look out for?

Ta.

Title: XP 64.
Post by: Beaker on November 03, 2007, 14:58:42 PM

Quote from: White Giant

Can I install it side by side with 32? Will there be a nice little boot loader like with Vista/XP duel booting?

yep, though they will both show up as "Windows XP" IIRC.  youll have to edit the boot file to change the names if you want to make it more obvious.

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Anything I should look out for?

Ta.

Some of the more obscure hardware isnt supported very well.  Modern stuff youll have zero issues with, but some older hardware just doesnt have the drivers.  

Other than that its pretty good, it "feels" quicker than normal XP, and ive found im gaining slight advantages in some games.  Crysis Demo for instance im getting ~5fps more on the XP64 boot than the XP Home boot.  I think it may be down to the fact XP64 is handling the complex maths a lot quicker without having to break the numbers apart.  Oh, and my XP Home and Vista boots are about to go byebye anyhow, ive just got another 2Gb in the post this morning, and I want to be able to use it!

Title: Re:XP 64.
Post by: Serious on November 03, 2007, 17:25:03 PM

My brother runs Xp pro and 64 as dual boot with no problems. It says 64 on screen on his without editing.

Title: Re:XP 64.
Post by: White Giant on November 03, 2007, 21:27:19 PM

Gonna install now.

Title: XP 64.
Post by: White Giant on November 04, 2007, 10:08:46 AM

Had a play, seems pretty good. Next time I do a clean install its gonna be 64.

Title: Re:XP 64.
Post by: Serious on November 04, 2007, 22:21:55 PM

Originally 64 was the poor sister for some reason, very few drivers and a lot of them were ropey. Now its changed and the situation is remakably different. My bro used to spend most of his time almost exclusively in xp32, now its mostly 64.

Had they sorted out the driver problem early then it could have been the business OS of choice.

Title: Re:XP 64.
Post by: Cypher on November 06, 2007, 12:15:18 PM

Its a bit late for it to take of now.  From a recent Valve hardware survey your looking at a minute portion of the online community.  

http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html

/Edit, its not showing on there seperately, but it was about 2% of all OSs.

Title: Re:XP 64.
Post by: neXus on November 06, 2007, 12:27:28 PM

Quote from: Cypher

Its a bit late for it to take of now.  From a recent Valve hardware survey your looking at a minute portion of the online community.  

http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html

/Edit, its not showing on there seperately, but it was about 2% of all OSs.

Thing with that is that I am on xp64 and steam always thinks I am on just xp