Posted By
Crown
on 2006-08-23
05:02:00
|  Re: 64-bit Windows?
Same here. Basically most of the CPUs sold today has 64bit in it now.
Only issue is that you need driver support, you have to check in advance that there is 64bit drivers available for all your hardware... Printer drivers are one weak point. Also the NoExecute aka DEP protection is very sketchy, you can run into it very easily. It is turned on by default if the CPU supports it, and if you have a program which runs code in data segments than you will see frequent crashes due to that, it can take explorer easily with it. It is not really serious just very annoying.
Also some software refuse to install itself on 64bit OS. Visual Studio .NET is one example, you need at least VS.NET 2003 or 2005.
Otherwise is pretty cool. If you do not want to switch yet, you can easily try it out on 32bit XP if your CPU supports 64bit with VMware. They do have the ability to run 64bit guest OS-es on 32bit host OS.
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