Windows Vista showdown, Which is better (32/64)

Judas · Feb 21, 2007, 03:43 PM

So which is better, is one more stable then the other, is one more popular then the other. Is 64bit operating system nearly as unreliable as the XP variant?

Is the Vista 32bit going the way of the dinos?

Make your vote count.

Zelig · Feb 21, 2007, 04:26 PM

Not much difference either way.

Necrosis · Feb 21, 2007, 07:23 PM

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Vista 64bit is better then XP 64, but not as good as vista 32bit

BA HA I went from XP x64 to Vista 32.

jasonbourne · Feb 22, 2007, 02:32 AM

well im running vista ultimate 32 and im more than happy ,my only problem at the minute is with my x-fi soundcard.

Dragunov · Feb 22, 2007, 08:40 AM

well I use the betadriver for it

PangingJr · Feb 22, 2007, 04:38 PM

i think it'll be awhile yet before x64 build of Vista have plenty of 64-Bit software. the real 64-bit operating system will become standard on both Windows and Linux PCs eventually, but it is not going to happen so soon.

Datagg · Feb 23, 2007, 04:31 AM

LOL, Same here

SaberZ · Feb 24, 2007, 09:37 AM

Running Vista 32bit. My complaints are the creative sound drivers(have an Audigy 2 ZS..) and WoW doesn't run so great under Vista(tossing that up to my Nvidia drivers). Other than that it is great.

Judas · Feb 24, 2007, 03:46 PM

My small list of creative cards here along with vista experience isn't going well, i've tried everything from a standard 16bit 2/4 channel PCI Sound Blaster Card to a Sound Blaster Live! card, to a Sound Blaster Audigy card in this machine i'm trying to get vista and sound up and running and none of them work correctly under vista at all...

To bad the motherboard doesn't have Realtek audio system, every system, even the older ones with realtek onboard sound system work flawlessly. I'm REALLY impressed with realteks audio/onboard networking support and that they are getting even more inventive with seperating front panel and backend stereo into 2 seperate devices making it so that you don't need a 2nd audio device for using Say Voice applications seperate from other applciation that may use audio at the same time.

Monkeyboy · Feb 26, 2007, 07:36 PM

I've been running Vista x64 for a while now, from beta versions to the final RTM, and I have to say I'm really happy with it.

When I installed builds prior to RC1 the bootloader had an annoying habit of 'losing' the Vista startup files, prompting a repair every 3rd or 4th boot, but this was fixed with RC2 and since then I have to say I've never looked back.

My only gripe is with manufacturers, who seem to have been caught on the hop with the need to provide 64-bit driver support. As much as some might like to, we can't blame Microsoft for this. 64-bit Windows has been available to the public since April 2005 and the SDK's were available way before that. Even so, it seems that quite a few manufacturers misjudged the demand for x64 drivers and thought that concentrating on x86 drivers would get them through the worst - despite MS making it clear that in order to gain Vista WHQL certification they would need to provide both x86 and x64 versions of drivers with their hardware.

Anyhoo, I have only one device which doesn't yet have a signed driver, and having disabled driver signature checking on boot I have no problem running the temp driver until a proper one comes out.

Would I go back to XP? No - but I have kept it on a separate drive just in case. After all - you never know when the DRM badness might kick in and start doing silly things like revoking drivers because MS decided that it was in their best interests to do so.

Other than that, I'm really happy with Vista and the few annoyances I have experienced were nothing more serious than the problems I had when I first upgraded to XP; in fact, most of them were almost exactly the same problems, including trying to find a modem driver that would work under the new OS, and using a driver from the previous OS to get by until a proper Vista version appears.

Zelig · Feb 26, 2007, 09:59 PM

I haven't really had any problems with the beta Creative drivers on Vista 64-bit for my Audigy 2 ZS. DTS works correctly for my 5.1 system, and everything sounds the way it should. EAX isn't working right yet, but it's not working for any non-Creative cards either.

Freulein · Feb 26, 2007, 11:00 PM

i'm only interested in the 64 bit version of vista, vista 32 bit brings nothing i have missed so far. but the driver situation makes it unpossible to run a stable and productive vista 64 system.

Monkeyboy · Feb 27, 2007, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Freulein

i'm only interested in the 64 bit version of vista, vista 32 bit brings nothing i have missed so far. but the driver situation makes it unpossible to run a stable and productive vista 64 system.

What devices are you lacking drivers for?

You could try looking for XP-64 drivers for your devices - a large amount of them work in Vista x64. I have used some XP-64 drivers to get Vista x64 working without problems; Windows Update will update these to the Vista drivers once they become available.