Vista - 32 vs 64 bit gaming Increase my fps?

It would be similar to someone buying a base model of a Camaro/Mustang/Challenger and complaining it doesn't put out enough power. No one forced anyone to buy anything, if the consumer doesn't want to make a knowledgeable purchase then that's their fault. You can't blame the company for putting out a product they know isn't optimal but is guaranteed to sell.

for your information i'm triple booting windows xp pro x64, windows 7 RC x64 and ubuntu 9.04 x64


just try saying "linux" around any average joe and they wont know what your talking about



as with windows 7 i am impressed with there improvement upon vista but it is still far, far away from windows XP

it got around 10-20% less FPS in crysis in both uncontrolled (playing through the first mission) and controlled tests (walking in a strait line, emptying a clip and reloading, blowing up a car) compared to windows XP

it also, like vista, tries to restrict my access to certain folders like the cookies folder as well as documents and settings (why????). whats really pathetic is that i can get to them through command prompt. after some looking around i found a permission that denied "everyone" the abillity to "view folder contents/access"

WTF??? WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THAT BE THERE????????????? WHY WOULD MY OWN OPERATING SYSTEM PREVENT ME (AN ADMINISTRATOR) ACCESS TO MY OWN FILES ON MY OWN COMPUTER????????


i found the action center very annoying and pointless (though i like how its confined compared to vista)

disk defragmenter was very slow to launch and to defrag (like 30 secs to launch and forever to defrag a 1% fragmented 320 gig drive) this could just be a bug though

the list could go on and on and on....






and on

I thought this was a discussion about which is faster, 32bit or 64bit, not a flame war against xp and vista.

1. why are xp fanboys on here? this is VISTA FORUMS, not flaming forums
2. stick to topic, or it will be closed and you may be warned or even banned.
3. i know this is a reply to one person, but it isnt aimed at one person.

ok ill stop but if you remember i suggested that we stop but other people continued

If you up to 64 bit then your prolly going to want to get more RAM to go along with it, I just got paid yesterday and bought vista home premium x64 and another 4 GB of RAM so I'll have a total of 8GB.

Of course you should first check out some of the specs of your hardware, does your motherboard support x64? does your vid card support it? something you need to know before you rush into getting it and then find out you cant use it.