Buying Vista

My PC hardware closely matches yours, except I have a Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
and a nvidia 7300. You shouldn't have any driver issues with either the
32bit or 64bit versions. I currently run 64bit and I like the ability to run
a game locally, have another user profile loaded in the background and use
Media Center (from my Xbox) all at the same time. I do run some games
locally but you should check and see if the games you plan to run will work
well on Vista. Lately, I have been playing Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
alot. It works great in 1280x1024.



"Neil Catling" <neil@ncatling.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi All
> I am now going to buy vista for my gaming Pc,The question I have 'Is shall
> I
> buy 32 bit or 64 bit' bearing in mind that I am only using this for games
> and games only.
> I will be buying ultimate.
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Asus Crosshair motherboard
> AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
> 2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
> XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
> Tagan 580 watt Psu
> 32 Bit Windows XP
>
>

Currently I'm triple booting into XP, Vista32 and Vista64 and overall, I
can't recommend Vista64 at this time. If I'm going to have a problem and a
BSOD, it's going to be under Vista64. I'm currently playing the Vista ready
game Supreme Commander and it's given me 2 BSODs and 3 CTDs since I've
played it under Vista64. Under XP, I've played just as much, as I've gotten
1CTD.

It's a driver issue I'm sure. Probably video.

I also would suggest holding off another couple of months on getting vista,
has their are plenty of little problems here and there with the different
drivers. Creative's Soundblaster drivers are still in beta and technically
so are the drivers for nVidia and there are a slew of unhappy nVidia owners
right now!

I assume you're planning on going to 4GB of ram soon ? As if you're not,
there isn't much value in going to Vista64 either. Since their isn't any
DX10 games actually out yet, and there are varous driver issues still
getting ironed out, I'd strongly suggest holding off as long as possible, or
you could buy a 2nd hard drive and dual boot between Xp and Vista until
you're ready to be a pure Vista gamer.

There is a forums a fellow created a little while back called
www.vistareadygames.com where people post games that they have working. I've
posted all the games that I got to run under Vista32 and Vista64. Others
have as well. Might want to check out that site to make sure all you're
games are jamming.

If you scour theorugh these and other forums, you see alot of people having
issues with various games at this point. I'm not hell bent on stopping you
from going to Vista, just trying to make sure you don't rush in, only to be
posting in the vista.General forums asking how to go back to XP in 3-4
weeks. Be sure to check all you're hardware that you'll be using, Keyboards,
Mice, Printers, joysticks for Vista drivers and\or Vista problems

"Neil Catling" <neil@ncatling.co.uk> wrote in message
news8ydnaAGg6GwBXPYnZ2dnUVZ8qijnZ2d@eclipse.net. uk...

> Hi All
> I am now going to buy vista for my gaming Pc,The question I have 'Is shall
> I
> buy 32 bit or 64 bit' bearing in mind that I am only using this for games
> and games only.
> I will be buying ultimate.
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Asus Crosshair motherboard
> AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
> 2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
> XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
> Tagan 580 watt Psu
> 32 Bit Windows XP
>
>

You probably won't see any benefit over 32-bit at the moment from
performance point of view, at least not with 32-bit apps and at least not
enough to overcome any lack of drivers you may face. It ultimately comes
down to that, if you've got completely compatible hardware, and you're
willing to face off a small number of games and other pieces of software
which aren't compatible then strongly consider it.

I'll point out though if you buy the retail version of Ultimate, it comes
with 32-bit and 64-bit in the box, so you can migrate over at a later date,
or you can test the 64-bit out first without activating it and see how it
runs, then replace it with 32-bit if needed.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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"Neil Catling" <neil@ncatling.co.uk> wrote in message
newsdKdnTv87KE6CHPYnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@eclipse.net. uk...

> Hi All
> I am now going to buy vista for my gaming Pc,The question I have 'Is shall
> I buy 32 bit or 64 bit' bearing in mind that I am only using this for
> games and games only.
> I will be buying ultimate.
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Asus Crosshair motherboard
> AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
> 2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
> XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
> Tagan 580 watt Psu
> 32 Bit Windows XP
>
>

In article <pdKdnTv87KE6CHPYnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk >, Neil
Catling says...

> Hi All
> I am now going to buy vista for my gaming Pc,The question I have 'Is shall I
> buy 32 bit or 64 bit' bearing in mind that I am only using this for games
> and games only.
> I will be buying ultimate.
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
> Thanks.
>

Stick with XP. Seriously. I have a X2 4800+, 7800GT, 2GB RAM and it's
struggling with Battelfield 2 in 1280x1024 whereas under XP it flew.



--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

"Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Stick with XP. Seriously. I have a X2 4800+, 7800GT, 2GB RAM and it's
> struggling with Battelfield 2 in 1280x1024 whereas under XP it flew.

That's probably related to the video driver not Windows Vista.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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I agree,

I have a single core AMD 64 - 4000+, 7600GS 2GB Ram, and BF2 files along
great, infact faster than on XP -SP2 in my opinion

"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> "Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2058dfd9f04c5b98a121@news.karoo.co.uk...
>

>> Stick with XP. Seriously. I have a X2 4800+, 7800GT, 2GB RAM and it's
>> struggling with Battelfield 2 in 1280x1024 whereas under XP it flew.

>
> That's probably related to the video driver not Windows Vista.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>
>

In article <8CB540F9-797C-457D-935B-D19FBD9DD57F@microsoft.com>, Paul
Smith says...

> "Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2058dfd9f04c5b98a121@news.karoo.co.uk...
>

> > Stick with XP. Seriously. I have a X2 4800+, 7800GT, 2GB RAM and it's
> > struggling with Battelfield 2 in 1280x1024 whereas under XP it flew.

>
> That's probably related to the video driver not Windows Vista.
>

It isn't. Currently on 101.41. Made no difference from the first 10x.x
versions. It's not a massive amount - maybe 10% or so but occassionally
I get jerko-vision as the HDD gets hammered.



--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

Sounds like you're getting the problem a few people are seeing, (as well as
myself). I hooked up a 2nd monitor and ran the resource monitor and I see
the object_client.zip file and the common_client.zip file getting massive
reads. On gues reported going to 4GB of ram fixed that for him, which may
fix the problem. But throwing hardware money at a problem that only exists
in the Vista doesn't fly right with me. If 2GB of ram is works great under
XP, then it should be enough under Vista. Funny ehough, I haven't gotten
this under BF1942 or BF2142. Just BF2

Which is why I agree,until there are some DX10 games to play and the drivers
get sorted out, I'd stick with XP


"Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.205a5949b07a81c898a139@news.karoo.co.uk.. .

>>

> It isn't. Currently on 101.41. Made no difference from the first 10x.x
> versions. It's not a massive amount - maybe 10% or so but occassionally
> I get jerko-vision as the HDD gets hammered.
>
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
> Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
> until you hear them speak.........