Joe Corey

You might have misunderstood me. I have a 64bit cpu and a 64bit OS. I have
run both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions on this system. Don't see much of a
performance difference at all. If anything 64 bit seems faster.



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> You need to be running a 32 bit OS on a 32 bit processor and a 64 bit OS
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> And not running 32 bit software on a 64 bit OS.
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> Slows everything down.
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> I have graphic intensive Battle Field 2 and it runs fine on 32 bit Vista.
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>> "GeekBoy" <allGeek@hownerdy.com> wrote in message
>> news:46add68f$0$8034$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
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>>> "Joe Corey" <klrjoe@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>> news:540E8EFD-505E-44D5-B502-1E2C37F3E502@microsoft.com...
>>>>I must say after 3 months now I am very disappointed with Vista Ultimate
>>>>x64 when it comes to gaming and general performance. I have a core2
>>>>e6600, 4gb of DDR II 800MHZ, 2 raptor X 150GB 10,000rpm hard drives in a
>>>>RAID-0 and the darn thing is still considerably slower at EVERYTHING
>>>>than my XP pro which is installed onto a single Samsung spin-point 40gb
>>>>drive! I fail to see how something that is supposedly better and more
>>>>modern is so much slower. I doubled the ram from 2 to 4gb and it made no
>>>>noticeable difference in load times or hd activity while gaming. THe
>>>>background tasks are supposed to be low priority but the just happen to
>>>>coincide with lag? Programs like MS Flight SIM X and BF2, BF 2142 take
>>>>forever to load in comparison not to mention there are frequent lag
>>>>spikes during game play. I just feel that for Gaming Vista is a huge
>>>>step backwards. I hope that future updates/service packs do something
>>>>for the performance because so far I am not seeing any reason to
>>>>continue using Vista on a Gaming PC. All of my hardware is vista x64
>>>>compatible and I have latest drivers and BIOS. It's just Vista. It's
>>>>slow!!!
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>>> Are you running Vista x64 instead of 32 bit?
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