32bit and 64bit?

Graphics cards are not like processors, the are not designed to be 32 bit or 64 bit. Unless you want to run 64 bit exclusive aps or use over 3 gigs of ram, 32 bit OS's are better due to the better driver support.

The funny part is... he's right. You made fun of him for giving you the right answer. For that, you win the jackass award!

32-bit drivers have had way more development than 64-bit drivers.

The first 64-bit windows OS with gaming in mind is Vista... nobody bothered to make 64-bit gaming drivers before that, because previous 64-bit OS' weren't meant for games...

Cleeve, zenmaster, and smokedyou911 are all correct. They said everything I would have said.

Wait a minute... doesn't that mean your dad pwns?..

...unless you enjoy it, too. Then you both win!

WTF?

Is this the "Other" forum? Maybe it should be moved there.

I love how i did a little trash talk that i knew nothing about that came back to bite me in the a** and now that i made fun of myself everyone stopped posting. Yes. I win!

I thought you won because your dad buggered you.

In any case, we're easy to get along with here, that's what makes this forum great. You can admit you're a jackass or we can call you on it, it's all the same to us.

And if you want to declare yourself a winner because you have inapropriate parental relations, hey, who are we to say otherwise?

64-bit os's ARE mainstream and are NOT just in testing. Nor were they not meant for games. Where do you guys get this sh]t from?
FYI Vista is not the first 64 bit Microsoft os. XP and windows 2000 both have 64 bit versions thats been out for years.
Also to bust another of your clueless street-myths: In most cases, 64-bit binaries come from exactly the same source code as 32-bit binaries,you just need to compile it for a different target which takes 5 seconds to make the change, so there's usually no difference in 'maturity level' between 32 and 64 bit software because its the same frickin source code in both versions.
Also FYI 32-bit programs (including OS's) don't run as optimally on a 64-bit processor as 64-bit binaries do because the CPU has to run in a 32-bit instruction/addressing emulation mode so can't ever reach its full efficiency.
Yet another fact you all seem to not know is that 64-bit XP and 64-bit vista both can run 32-bit binaries (including drivers via WOW) so there's absolutely no advantage to running a 32-bit OS if you have a 64-bit cpu even if you do only have 32-bit drivers, which for most modern hardware isn't the case anyway.
Basically 32-bit is dead. get over it and move on, and stop spreading clueless nonsense about 32-bit windows being better on a 64-bit cpu in any technical or practical way.

Join the club. I'm also a software developer and consultant. the ONLY reason you need to fix code to run on 64-bit is if it was written badly in the first place. A common mistake by lamer C programmers is to do pointer math assuming an int type is always 32 bits long, so their code screws up on anything other than a 32-bit platform.

iPod Touch doesnt work on 64 bit vista. According to whats been said it appears apple are as#holes and should take the 5 seconds needed to compile a 64 bit driver or "64 bit itunes". Just wanted to send my hate out to apple. Payce.

@Cleeve Rofl!
@DXsock, You ask a question than tell me the answer I gave you is wrong? First of I was right. Second if you knew the only answer (completely wrong) to your question that you wanted to hear, why did you ask in the first place?

Dude i just bought Vista 128bit to go with my PS3 its kick ass

Someone needs a hug.

64 bit is awesome until you drop it all over the floor and have 64 little itty bits you need to pick up. 32 bit is naturally quite a bit better in this regard as it takes half the time to pick up the little bits and pieces.

Allow me to illustrate. Here are 64 bits:
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and here are 32 bits:
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Now imagine these bits are those little 1 square flat lego pieces and the floor is a big shaggy carpet. Would you rather be using 64 bit or 32 bit when the cat walks by and knocks over your bit bucket?

Next up I discuss why VLB is superior to PCIe.

I wish I had never wandered into this thread...

Why? Looking at the processor registers it's almost exactly the same - well, a little better even. Using the 64 bit mode (Long mode) there are more registers available than in 32 bit mode and most other registers have twice the length (Actually they have the same length in 32 bit mode but the remaining 32 bit get filled up with zeros).

That is not entirely correct.
First off, optimization is a very vague word. Running 32 bit software on a 64 bit cpu is like driving your porsche in a 30mph zone. You are artificially slowed. Switching from real to long mode and using adequate software makes the mathematical calculations more precise AND faster. Really optimizing it would increase the lead of 64 bit even further (ie. using the SSE commands instead of the FPU).
On the other hand there are simple tasks a CPU does that don't benefit from more and wider registers, but those tasks should be left to really old CPUs...
Last but not least, 64 bit code needs more memory. That is correct. Given the current price of RAM that shouldn´t be an issue at all.

To meet the min. 80 km/h that would be a Lada GTS OC, right?

So i woke up hopped on my Vista 64 computer and i realize that i had spunked my shorts...

Than i turned around to see my dad smiling and he said "that spunk is mine"

why dont 16bit apps run on 64bit os

So when systems say 128bit is that the processor? or what?

thats the type of memory, a higher bit memory allows higher bandwidth