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64bit and games
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Asking for my brother who is upgrading to 64bit AMD now. If he installs XP Pro 64bit does that affect gaming? (better/worse?) What do you people use? Any advice? |
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"Thomas Andersson" wrote in
: Hi! Asking for my brother who is upgrading to 64bit AMD now. If he installs XP Pro 64bit does that affect gaming? (better/worse?) What do you people use? Any advice? I have XP Pro 64bit, and play a few games, and I would suggest you NOT getting it. The drivers aren't as good, come out later, and for some hardware, impossible to find. If you get a dual core, get the normal XP Pro. Wait for the next Windoze (Vista?) to go 64 bit. After saying all that, if the game he's going to play the most has a 64bit version, and requires the 64bit OS, go for it. I've heard the 64bit versions are better. I haven't heard of any games that run easily on XP, having problems with the 64bit versions, only driver problems. -- _______________________________________________ / David Simpson \ | | | http://www.nyx.net/~dsimpson | |We got to go to the crappy town where I'm a hero.| \_______________________________________________/ |
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You will need games that are written for a 64 Bit system. Here's AMD's
link: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._11054,00.html |
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"Thomas Andersson" wrote in message ... Hi! Asking for my brother who is upgrading to 64bit AMD now. If he installs XP Pro 64bit does that affect gaming? (better/worse?) What do you people use? Any advice? Driver support for XP64 is lousy. sound,video,printers etc. It's all in the early stages or non-existent. Stick with XP or W2K. AMD64 bit CPU's are just fine running those OS'es and games. |
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