Vista Tutorial - Plan to get vista ultimate 64!! any advice?

Hi all,
ever since planning on a new pc build i knew at some point that id want to install vista on it. Ive planned to get vista 64 seeing as i have a machine capable of running a 64 bit o/s with ease (when i buy my extra 2gb of ram along with my copy of vista)

I have been doing my research on which of my games ill still be able to play & tbh the only ones that im remotely worried about are older than red orchestra so no problems there.

My only real concern is the drivers for my belkin wireless card (f5d7001uk) which doesnt have any vista 32 drivers! But ive heard a rumour that vista automatically installs the drivers itself??

Im also worried that some of the useful little apps i have installed wont install such as winrar, wavepad, deepburner pro 1.8 & punkbuster (not sure this even works on 64bit, but any cod4 players should be able to help here)

thats all really, any insight/advice would be greatly apreciated

thanks

Darren

Save yourself the trouble and go with 32.

Belkin : Support : Does my Wireless Card work on Windows Vista?

Go for the 64bit. You have the hardware to run it so dont cut yourself short.
The above link will answer your belkin probs.

my 2c of advice

jump on the net, check that all your hardware has vista 64 drivers

if ALL your hardware does have the 64 bit drivers, then get Vista Ultimate 64

and you'll never look back

vista is the closest that microsoft has ever got ... to doing the job right

but make sure you have the driver support cause thats where people run into problems and bash 64 bit

RellikZephyr

I'm saying go for 64bit just like most everyone said...you will never look book..i have had some problems in the beginning..but now they are all solved..take the leap for x64!

Vista x64 is the way to go. Just make sure that you can get x64 drivers for all your hardware.

I've been using Vista Ultimate x64 for just over a year now, and can testify to it's stability and compatibility. You shouldn't have a real problem.

It's usually the programs that provide 32-Bit extensions (right-click context menus and such) to Explorer that give a problem. Older versions of programs like WinRAR, WinZip and Copy Handler come to mind. WinRAR and WinZIP have already updated and provde full x64 support.

Mainstream Games in genral run better on x64 than ever before, even if they are 32-Bit programs. COD works great, as does Diablo II.

Go with Vista x64. You won't look back!

Go with x64; you will see lots of benefits here and there. I did a research first and swap out one part in making sure compatibility. No problem so far.

all this talk about x64 being better than x86 makes me wanna switch but i was wondering if there was a program out there that checks all my computer hardware to see if it's compatible...?

Hi y'all

I'm interested also TIA

Vista 32 just doesnt seem a big enough leap from xp to jusify buying it, & everyone i ask who has 64 says that they had trouble for a start but would never go back to 32bit. I dont use any onboard mobo devices so drivers for my xfi, 8800 & razer habu should be no problem. 2 devices i am curious about are my game controllers.

I have an xbox 360 controller for windows which i would assume vista already has drivers for it, if not there should be something on the ms website.

My saitek cyborg evo im not sure about coz theres an update for xp that provides drivers for me.