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[borghe]

overall I am fine with Windows x64 right now. The only driver issues I have are no drivers for my main photo printer (Epson 2200) and scanner (Epson Perfection 2400). My nForce drivers seem to be rock solid as do my ATI x800XL drivers. Programs run fine. BF2 runs at ~55fps. Games that don't suck at resource management run even better. HDTV output of my vid card works like a charm as does video capture on the card. All the usual codecs have installed just fine, and "I" haven't come across an app that won't run (yet).

If Epson comes out with either of those drivers soon there really won't be any difference between this OS and my old system.

Yay Windows x64.

For those curious my system specs are:
Athlon X2 4200+
Gigabyte branded x800XL 256MB PCI-X
1GB Corsair TwinX CAS2-2-2-6 DDR400
Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS nForce 4 Ultra board
250GB Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 SATA-II
HP 8X DL burner

Wish I was doing more video or photediting right now.. the little filter work I've done has just screamed on the thing.

 

[Drexon]

I dunno about x64. I hear 32 bit programs (aka. all) theoretically can't run any faster on win x64 because they have to be 'converted' or such before they something.

 

[manngc]

What advantages are there for running x64 over XP aside from upping the RAM limit? Have you noticed any performance gains, or have you not run your system in XP mode yet?

 

[borghe]

no performance gains.

my decision rested with this. eventually some apps I use (video, photo, rendering) will go to 64-bits. well, everything eventually will, but those sooner rather than later. so I had two choices at this juncture: either install x64 now or install it later. The problem with installing it later is that you pretty much "should" do a clean install (just like any Windows OS upgrade). So if I can install x64 now, and my existing apps run fine on it, and I am ready for my future apps when they arrive, so be it. I save myself the hassle of installing Win32 right now only to have to backup, blow it away, install x64, and restore, later.

Of course one shoudl check on hardware compatibility/drivers, and current apps to make sure running x64 is feasible. In my case, aside from my two missing drivers, there is no detriment to running x64. So I decided to do that. Not for any current benefits or gains, but to be ready for when 64-bit versions of Adobe products or rendering programs become available.

 

[element]

I'm running x64 as well. I really like it. I haven't had any hardware driver problems. I have run into some application problems, Roxio doesn't work

Performance increase are hard to judge because i went from a 2700 with xp32 to 3200 with xp x64.